Shades of Hiawatha Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930

Name: Shades of Hiawatha Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930
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ISBN: 9780374299750

ISBN-10: 0374299757

ISBN-13: 9780374299750

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alan Trachtenberg

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Winner of the 2005 Francis Parkman Prize nbsp; A century ago, U.S. policy aimed to sever the tribal allegiances of Native Americans, limit their ancient liberties, and coercively prepare them for citizenship. At the same time millions of arriving immigrants sought their freedom by means of that same citizenship. In this subtle, eye-opening new work, Alan Trachtenberg argues that the two developments were, inevitably, juxtaposed: Indians and immigrants together preoccupied the public imagination, and together changed the idea of what it meant to be American. To begin with, programs of "Americanization" were organized for both groups, yet Indians were at the same time celebrated as noble…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 11/3/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Introduction : dreaming Indian



Singing Hiawatha



Conceivable aliens



Yiddish Hiawatha



Ghostlier demarcations



Wanamaker Indians



The great bridge