Going Native : : Indians in the American Cultural Imagination / / Shari M. Huhndorf.

Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifact...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. "U Only I Were an Indian"
  • CHAPTER ONE. Imagining America: Race, Nation, and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century
  • CHAPTER TWO. Nanook and His Contemporaries: Traveling with the Eskimos, I 89 7-I 94 I
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Making of an Indian: "Forrest " Carter's Literary Inventions
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Rites of Con quest: Indian C aptivities in the New Age
  • CONCLUSION. Rituals of Citizenship: Going Native and Contemporary American Identity
  • Bibliography
  • Index