Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo eyes, 1880-1940
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Main Author: Smith, Sherry Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
From enemy to inspiration: Charles Erskine Scott Wood and the meaning of Indians -- George Bird Grinnell and the "vanishing" Plains Indian cultures -- Among the Blackfeet: Walter McClintock and Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Native son: Frank Bird Linderman -- Charles Fletcher Lummis and the fight for the multicultural Southwest -- Out of Arizona: George Wharton James -- Sisters of the Southwest: Mary Austin and Anna Ickes -- Mabel Dodge Luhan: muse of Taos
Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writerswhose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans'understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century.Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled tothe American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn toIndian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful aboutmodern American culture, these writers produced a body of work thatcelebrates Indian
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 273 p.)
ISBN:0195136357
019535043X
1280473568
9780195136357
9780195350432
9781280473562

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