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burned by our masks. No, it’s not only because she’s been kitted out in a

tasselled shirt and cheap moccasins. It’s something far more terrible. If,
dressed like this, Zintkala Nuni, the child of Wounded Knee, looks as though
she’s wearing a disguise—it’s because she’s no longer Indian.