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Title Dressing in feathers : the construction of the Indian in American popular culture / edited by S. Elizabeth Bird.

Publication Info. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.897 D773D    Check Shelf
Description xi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.
Contents Introduction: constructing the Indian, 1830s-1990s / S. Elizabeth Bird -- First but not the last of the "vanishing Indians": Edwin Forrest and mythic re-creations of the native population / Sally L. Jones -- Narratives of Sitting Bull's surrender: Bailey, Dix & Mead's photographic western / Frank Goodyear -- Reduced to images: American Indians in nineteenth-century advertising / Jeffrey Steele -- "Hudson's Bay Company Indians": images of native pople and the Red River pageant, 1920 / Peter Geller -- Science and spectacle: Native American representation in early cinema / Alison Griffiths -- "There is madness in the air": the 1926 Haskell homecoming and popular representations of sports in federal Indian boarding schools / John Bloom -- Indigenous versus colonial discourse: alcohol and American Indian identity / Bonnie Duran -- "My grandmother was a Cherokee princess": representations of Indians in Southern history / Joel W. Martin -- Florida Seminoles and the marketing of the last frontier / Jay Mechling -- Segregated stories: the colonial contours of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument / C. Richard King -- War of words: how news frames define legitimacy in a native conflict / Cynthia-Lou Coleman -- Going Indian: discovery, adoption, and renaming toward a "true American" from Deerslayer to Dances with wolves / Robert Baird -- "Her beautiful savage": the current sexual image of the Native American male / Peter van Lent -- Cultural heritage in Northern exposure / Annette M. Taylor --
Not my fantasy: the persistence of Indian imagery in Dr. Quinn, medicine woman / S. Elizabeth Bird -- Moo Mesa: some thoughts on stereotypes and image appropriation / Theodore S. Jojola -- What does one look like? / Debra L. Merskin.
Subject Indigenous peoples in popular culture -- United States.
Added Author Bird, S. Elizabeth.
ISBN 0813326664
0813326672 pb
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