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• W9093721 abstract "The last but one portion [of chocolates] ... I gave to an Indian of the Sioux tribe at the station Ketchum and for this gift the redskinned declared, `My brother is great as his hand is open, his face is pale but his heart is red.' Later, French translator who knew English assured me that the war hatchet between me and my tribe on the one hand, and the Sioux on the other would be buried forever, and so forth. So your chocolates provided me with long-lasting and tasteful refreshment but owing to it I became great (of which I never dreamed) and concluded an eternal alliance with the noble nation of Sioux. This alliance is even more precious to me, as the belt of the with whom I spoke hung several sculps, evidently recently torn off some skulls. The belligerent Sioux were present Ketchum for negotiations with the railway administration. I liked them very much and all my sympathy was on their side. (Dziela LV:429, qtd. Giergielewicz 28) ********** The above quotation comes from letter sent by Henryk Sienkiewicz from the United States to his Warsaw friend Stefania Leo, whom he wished to thank for the chocolates she gave him on his departure for the New World. Sienkiewicz arrived America March 1876, and his mission was twofold: officially he was to work as correspondent for Gazeta Polska, Warsaw newspaper, but fact his friends, among whom were Helena Modrzejewska and her husband Karol Chlapowski, obliged the writer to reconnoitre the continent and decide whether it would be possible to settle, Modrzejewska's words, in the jungle of the virgin (qtd. Giergielewicz 26). (1) The settlement was to be modelled on the quasi-socialist Brook Farm, set up Massachusetts. No wonder Sienkiewicz and his compatriots chose the New World: Poland it was the time of increasing political, economical, and cultural repression; whereas America's almost mythical democracy and freedom made it seem nothing short of wonderland. Indeed, the Polish people felt emotionally attached to America as shelter of democracy and freedom, especially through the figures of Kazimierz Pulaski (1747-1779) and Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817), Polish army officers and politicians, who actively participated the Revolutionary War and the development of democracy. Finally, America's rapid economic development was particularly appealing to Polish positivists, as it could provide guidelines on how to deal with the industrial and agricultural stagnation Poland. The writer did find suitable location for the planned colony Anaheim, near Los Angeles. However, when his friends joined him, the adverse conditions and profound feeling of homesickness simply frustrated all their hopes. Still, despite this failure, Sienkiewicz's trip to America was worthwhile, as it resulted the publication of Portrait of America; Letters, collection of fascinating reports and sketches from his exploratory journey, which provides another European account of life this country. The aim of this paper is to discuss the Indian aspect of Sienkiewicz's adventure, as it emerges from his Letters and from one of his American short stories, Sachem (1883). (2) Did Sienkiewicz really become a great warrior with a red heart,, and was he really on the Indian side? The idealised Polish vision of America, amplified by the fascination with Cooper's novels, corresponded to the general lack of balanced assessment of the reality. Most of the contemporary works on the United States were actually collections of romantic legends and fragmentary trivial anecdotes and comments which did not give justice to the diversity of the country and its inner contradictions. Such were the often falsified accounts of Krystyna Narbutt's chaotic sketches In America (1876) or Kallikst Wolski's collection of one-sided letters Do Ameryki i o Ameryce (1877), which propagated America's stereotypical picture as land of easy fortunes, cowboys, gunmen, and lynchings. …" @default.
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• W9093721 title "On Henryk Sienkiewicz's Native American Experience" @default.
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