Paige Raibmon

Authentic Indians

Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

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Produktbeschreibung

"There is nothing in the existing historical literature that accomplishes what this book does. It vividly depicts the interplay of ideas, strategies, and practical considerations during a period that has had significant and long-lasting impacts on everyone's ideas about 'Indianness.' Admirably, Paige Raibmon insists that we consider non-Indians' ideas in relationship to Indians' ideas and strategies, something few existing works do."--Alexandra Harmon, author of "Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335351
• ISBN-10: 0822335352
• Artikelnr.: 22096056

Autorenporträt

Paige Raibmon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Authenticity and Colonial Cosmology 1
1. Local Politics and Colonial Relations: The Kwakwaka'wakw at Home on the
Northwest Coast 15
2. "The March of the Aborigine to Civilization": Live Exhibits and the
World's Columbian Exhibition, 1893 34
3. Theaters of Contact: The Kwakwaka'wakh at the Fair 50
4. Picking, Posing, and Performing: Puget Sound Hop Fields and Income for
Aboriginal Workers 74
5. Harvest Gatherings: Aboriginal Agendas, Economy, and Culture 98
6. Indian Watchers: Colonial Imagination and Colonial Reality 116
7. The Inside Passage to Authenticity: Sitka Tourism and the Tlingit 135
8. "The Trend is Upward": Mission and Cottage Life 157
9. Civilization on Trial: The Davis Case 175
Conclusion: Authenticity's Call 198
List of Abbreviations 209
Notes 211
Bibliography 261
Index 295