Daniel Francis

The Imaginary Indian (eBook, ePUB)

The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.

Images of First Nations people have always been fundamental to Canadian culture. From the paintings and photographs of the 19th century to the Mounted Police sagas and the spectacle of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; from the performances of Pauline Johnson, Grey Owl, and Buffalo Long Lance to the media images of Oka and the Vancouver Winter Olympics?the Imaginary Indian is ever with us, oscillating throughout our history from friend to foe, from Noble Savage to bloodthirsty warrior, from debased alcoholic to wise elder, from monosyllabic "squaw" to eloquent princess, from enemy of progress to protector of the environment.

The Imaginary Indian has been, and continues to be-as Daniel Francis reveals in this book-just about anything the non-Native culture has wanted it to be; and the contradictory stories non-Natives tell about Imaginary Indians are really stories about themselves and the uncertainties that make up their cultural heritage. This is not a book about Native people; it is the story of the images projected upon Native people-and the desperate uses to which they are put.

This new edition, published almost twenty years after the book's first release, includes a new preface and afterword by the author.

Daniel Francis is an award-winning historian and the author of twenty books.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781551524504
• Artikelnr.: 49408017

Autorenporträt

Daniel Francis is an historian and the author/editor of more than twenty books, including three others for Arsenal: National Dreams: Myth, Memory and Canadian History; Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror; LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award); and Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction. He is also a regular columnist in Geist magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the new edition
Foreword by Randy Fred
1. Introduction
I. TAKING THE IMAGE
2. The Vanishing Canadian
3. Writing Off the Indian
4. Red Coats and Redskins
II. PRESENTING THE IMAGE
5. Performing Indians
6. Celebrity Indians and Plastic Shamans
7. Indians of Childhood
III. APPROPRIATING THE IMAGE
8. Marketing the Imaginary Indian
IV. IMPLEMENTING THE IMAGE
9. The Bureaucrat's Indian
10. Guns and Feathers
Endnotes
Photo Sources
Sources Consulted
Index