Submitted by warrior on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 18:37
UCLA's Angela Riley has an op-ed in the New York Times today about the Quileute Nation and the vampires of "Twilight." Read more for an excerpt and the link:
Angela Riley writes: All the world, it seems, has been bitten by “Twilight.” Conservative estimates place revenue generated from Stephenie Meyer’s vampire chronicles — the books, movies and merchandise — in the billion-dollar range. Scarcely mentioned, however, is the effect that “Twilight” has had on the tiny Quileute Nation, situated on a postage stamp of a reservation, just one square mile, in remote La Push, Wash.
To millions of “Twilight” fans, the Quileute are Indians whose (fictional) ancient treaty transforms young males of the tribe into vampire-fighting wolves
