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 | | Thus, in the image "Uncle David Killed in Action 1944," lines of text from the Dawes rolls and the Muscogee Christian hymnal appear on the screen door, the clapboards, the steps underneath Uncle David's feet. |
 | | The old home place in front of which Uncle David poses, smiling with arms akimbo, thus becomes permeated with and forever marked by the majority's rewriting of the culture of the Muscogee nation. |
 | | The sad fact of Uncle David's early demise in the defense of the United States is made more poignant and even ironic as the ghost texts transform Martin's family history into a larger story that encompasses the histories of all those individuals who, reluctantly or willingly, crossed the cultural line. |
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