Interracial Marriage

When doing the reading for class today I thought it was interesting how Loewen and Alexie were talking about half breeds. In "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" Alexie talks about how when Native Americans are written about in stories they are portrayed as tragic. The hero has to be white or a half breed. Then if the hero is a woman she has to be beautiful and she has to be in love with a white man. So, in Alexies writing the half breeds are considered heros because they have a bicultural background and can help deal with the differences between the two. Loewen talks about how Spanish and French would marry indian women, but not the English. According to Loewen New England and Virginia forbade interracial marriage. This was interesting to me to think about. I thought it was interesting how with the French and Spanish it said the men would marry indian women, it did not say that the French and Spanish women would marry the Indian men. I also find it interesting that to Alexie the half breed was like a hero. Does this mean that the Native Americans wanted to overcome the racial differences more than the whites, since the whites forbade interracial marriage?