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Reimagining Indians Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940

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ISBN-10: 0195136357

ISBN-13: 9780195136357

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sherry L. Smith

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Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose 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 to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about modern American culture, these writers produced a body of workthat celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity. Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers, their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing their own doubts…    
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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/9/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Sherry L. Smith, great-granddaughter of Private William Earl Smith, is Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. She is the author of "The View from Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians".

Introduction
Eastern Adventurers
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
Western Enthusiasts
Native Son: Frank Bird Linderman
Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Fight for the Multicultural Southwest
Out of Arizona: George Wharton James
Mothers of Reinvention
Sisters of the Southwest: Mary Austin and Anna Ickes
Mabel Dodge Luhan: Muse of Taos
Conclusion
Notes
Index