Going Native,9780801438325

Going Native

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ISBN13: 9780801438325
ISBN10: 0801438322
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher(s): Cornell Univ Pr
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Summary

Since the 1800s, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as these to examine the phenomenon of "going native", showing its complex relations to social crises in the broader American society -- including those posed by the rise of industrial capitalism, the completion of the military conquest of Native America, and feminist and civil rights activism.

Huhndorf looks at several modern cultural manifestations of the desire of European Americans to emulate Native Americans. Some are quite pervasive, as is clear from the continuing, if controversial, existence of fraternal organizations for young and old that rely upon "Indian" costumes and rituals. Another fascinating example is the process by which Arctic travelers "went Eskimo", as Huhndorf describes in her readings of Robert Flaherty's travel narrative My Eskimo Friends and hi

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction ``If Only I Were an Indian'' 1(18)
Imagining America: Race, Nation, and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century
19(60)
Nanook and His Contemporaries: Traveling with the Eskimos, 1897--1941
79(50)
The Making of an Indian: ``Forrest'' Carter's Literary Inventions
129(33)
Rites of Conquest: Indian Captivities in the New Age
162(37)
Conclusion Rituals of Citizenship: Going Native and Contemporary American Identity 199(4)
Bibliography 203(12)
Index 215

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