Indian Life: Transforming an American Myth - Couverture souple

Savage, William W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806125136 ISBN 13 : 9780806125138

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1993

Synopsis

Indian Life: Transforming an American Myth reveals the varying views and representations of Native people that whites confronted, as they made their relentless way across America's Great Plains from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century. William W. Savage, Jr., emphasizes the images of American Indians that whites developed--to justify their expansion into Indian lands, salve their consciences, and romanticize the West, and to attract more whites. Indian Life reveals the political uses of these myths.

At various times American Indians were characterized as bloodthirsty savages, then noble sons of nature. Indians were objects of curiosity in Wild West shows, but the "real" Indians failed to emerge. Conflicting images offered by travelers, missionaries, and government workers--bent on their own objectives--were later reinforced in novels, motion pictures, and television.

Savage examines views of American Indians from the 1800s to the early 1900s, including those of such widely read mythmakers as Richard Irving Dodge, Richard Harding Davis, Helen Hunt Jackson, and James Willard Schultz, to "identify both the things that were and the things that were thought to be. They are neither pretty nor sentimental."

Indian Life: Transforming an American Myth is a book for anyone concerned with the historical and cultural dimensions of American Indians and the whites who conquered their "sea of grass."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William W. Savage, Jr., received the B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of South Carolina, and the Ph.D. in history from the University of Oklahoma, where he is now Associate Professor of History. He is the author of The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association (Columbia Missouri, 1973). He is also the author of The Cowboy Hero: His Image in American History and Culture; the editor of Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth, and of Indian Life: Transforming an American Myth; and coeditor of The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin, by Frederick Jackson Turner, and of The Frontier: Comparative Studies, Volume 2, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806125136
• ISBN 13: 9780806125138
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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