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

Name: Shades of Hiawatha Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930
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ISBN: 9780809016396

ISBN-10: 0809016397

ISBN-13: 9780809016396

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Authors: Alan Trachtenberg

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"A book of elegance, depth, breadth, nuance and subtlety." --W. Richard West Jr. (Founding Director of the National Museum of the American Indian), The Washington Post 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 new immigrants sought their freedom by means of that same citizenship. 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. In "Shades of Hiawatha, Trachtenberg eloquently…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/19/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Dreaming Indian



Singing Hiawatha



Conceivable Aliens



Yiddish Hiawatha



Ghostlier Demarcations



Wanamaker Indians



The Great Bridge


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index