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1973

Geiogamah, Hanay. "Foghorn." New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah. 1973. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1980. 45-82. (Stories of Our Way: An Anthology of American Indian Plays. Ed. Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby. Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 1999.) Pocahontas appears in section 5 regaling a group of giggling girlfriends about an encounter with a "big" Captain Smith, who loses his erection and promises, promises, promises that it will not happen again, a scene reminiscent of John Barth (1960) and which Tamara Underiner (2011) sees as symbolizing the impotence of the white man's claim to the land.
[play; Native American]