EVERYONE knows that the Indian has suffered a cruel fate in America. Faced with one of the great population movements of all time, he was pushed out of his traditional home by white settlers, ravaged by European diseases, and debauched by alcohol. His traditional life-style was challenged by the political and economic intrusion of a powerful and alien civilization, and ultimately even his cultural values were attacked by well-meaning missionaries and government officials determined to inculcate the values of middle-class America. To many Americans the plight of the Indian seems best summed up by that last desperate attempt to retain some sort of distinct identity, the Ghost Dance, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee which effectively snuffed out his final messianic protest. In addition to this palpable physical abuse the Indian has suffered in another, more subtle way, a way which seems trivial at first but which has enormous consequences for Indians and whites alike. Paradoxically, the Indian, the original settler of the United States, is a