American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries

246 Pages·2016·8.486 MB·English

by  Pauline Turner Strong

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Strong, Pauline Turner, 1953–
American Indians and the American imaginary : cultural representation across the
centuries/ Pauline Turner Strong.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61205-048-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Indians of North America—Public opinion. 2. Indians of North America—
Historiography. 3. Indian captivities—Historiography. 4. Ethnohistory—North
America. 5. Indians in popular culture. 6. Indians in literature. 7. Indians in motion
pictures. 8. Public opinion—North America. I. Title.
E98.P99S77 2012
970.004'97—dc23
2012018339
ISBN 13 : 978-1-61205-047-8 (hbk)
ISBN 13 : 978-1-61205-048-5 (pbk)
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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
pArt one introduction 1
1 The Ethnography of Representational Practices 4
pArt two representing history And identity 17
2 Tribe and Nation 20
3 Five Hundred Years 34
4 Indian Blood 54
pArt three cAptivity, Adoption, And the AmericAn imAginAry 67
5 Captivity in White and Red 71
6 The Contemporary Captivity Narrative 102
7 On Captivity as Digital Spectacle 118
pArt Four plAying indiAn 125
8 Crafting American Selves 127
9 Animated Indians 142
10 The Mascot Slot 155
pArt Five indigenous imAginAries 163
11 Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and Ethnographic Representation 167
12 A Native Space on the National Mall 178
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viii contents
Epilogue 186
References 187
Print Publications and Manuscripts (Including Online Texts) 187
Multimedia Sources (Films, Videos, Scores, CD-ROMs, Podcasts) 222
Legislation and Court Cases 223
Sources and Credits 224
Index 226
About the Author 233
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1 James Earle Fraser, The End of the Trail (1918) 6
2 Harry Fonseca, Shuffle Off to Buffalo #V (1983) 32
3 Roark Gourley, Spaghetti Meets Tomato in the Collision
of the Continental Plates, detail (1991) 38
4 Peter Max, Discovery (1992) 44
5 Scott Parsons, Quincentenary Project, detail (1992) 50
6 Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Preservation of a Species:
DECONSTRUCTIVISTS (This is the house that Joe built),
detail (1990) 55
7 Antonio Capellano, Preservation of Captain Smith
by Pocahontas (1825) 68
8 John Vanderlyn, The Murder of Jane McCrea (1804) 73
9 Horatio Greenough, The Rescue (1853) 99
10 “Every Camp fire maiden has a symbol of her own” (1915) 135
11 Preparing for a performance of “Colors of the Wind” (1997) 143
12 “Cupboard,” figurine, and key from
The Indian in the Cupboard video (1997) 144
13 Cleveland Indians fans (2007) 156
14 Tony Auth, “Can You Imagine?” (1997) 157
15 National Museum of the American Indian and the
Washington Monument (2004) 181
16 Jolene Rickard, installation in Our Lives exhibit, National
Museum of the American Indian, detail (2005) 183
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