Indians, Contact, and Colonialism in the Deep South In the essay, Indians, Contact, and Colonialism in the Deep South, Joel W. Martin addresses the advantages to re-thinking and establishing our ideas about the history of Indians. In Martin’ opinion, in light of our postcolonial discoveries and altered ways of viewing our historical involvement with the Indians, we might come to many new conclusions about Indians on the whole, and in particular, their religious practices. Martin expresses this view early in his article as he writes; “We can progress from narratives that ignore uneven power relations to those that explain how