Settler Common SenseIn Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls settler common sense, taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed. In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthornes House of the Seven Gables, Rifkin shows how the novel