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15 of the Best Books and Articles on: Media Images of Native Americans

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Native Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press » Read Now
by Mary Anne Weston. 192 pgs.

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From the Pueblo land protests of the 1920s to the sports teams' mascot controversies of the 1990s, this book chronicles the depictions of Native Americans in the press. Weston shows how some images of Indians that date from the time of Columbus have persisted into the present, and she asks whether...
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From the Pueblo land protests of the 1920s to the sports teams' mascot controversies of the 1990s, this book chronicles the depictions of Native Americans in the press. Weston shows how some images of Indians that date from the time of Columbus have persisted into the present, and she asks whether journalistic practices have helped or hindered accurate portrayals of Native Americans. Few books of this kind have given attention to both local and national press, or have dealt so extensively with the 20th century. Weston has incorporated a wealth of well-chosen examples, presenting an accessible account of this fascinating subject.
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Shape-Shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction » Read Now
by Andrew MacDonald, Maryann Sheridan. 338 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas. The authors provide critical approaches...
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This study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas. The authors provide critical approaches for evaluating the literature. They argue that while popular fiction conventions determine and limit authentic portraits of Native American cultures, successful popular fiction writers approach literary quality by fusing authentic Native American culture with the standard genre conventions. Approximately 200 books are discussed and evaluated, and true Native American stories and writings are contrasted with mainstream versions of Indian culture.
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Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture » Read Now
by S. Elizabeth Bird. 321 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The essays that comprise this volume examine the distortions and fabrications that white culture has imposed on historical and current events in its representation of American Indian culture over the last 150 years.
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Tribes & Tribulations: Misconceptions About American Indians and Their Histories » Read Now
by Laurence M. Hauptman. 164 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Selects topics from the 17th century to the present as examples of some commonly held but erroneous views on Indian-white relationships, including stereotypes of Indians as mascots.
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The Image of the Indian: The Canadian Indian as a Subject and a Concept in a Sampling of the Popular National Magazines Read in Canada, 1900-1970 » Read Now
by Ronald Graham Haycock. 98 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of genocide by the Americans against their redmen. Another concept of the Indian in North...the lazy, dishonest natives around him. He accepted...Tecumseh, he depicts the...
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Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 » Read Now
by Sherry L. Smith. 278 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn...
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Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883- 1933 » Read Now
by L. G. Moses. 364 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the classic cliches about Native Americans." 12 Raymond Stedman, in Shadows of the Indians , finds a progression...reads the history of Indian images as decline, holding...
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The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western » Read Now
by Jon Tuska. 304 pgs.

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...generations of Americans, replied that...re-invocation of the classical...literary or media critic should...disagree and one of my most fundamental...disagreeing is that...
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Construction of the Mythic Indian in Mainstream Media and the Demystification of the Stereotype by American Indian Artists, in American Studies International » Read Now
by Gulriz Buken. 11 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Bentley Sprangs bronze mixed media work titled The Beginning of the End for the End of the...the word "vanquished." The images, which have become redundant...in the symbol...
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Native Americans in the X-Files, in Journal of Popular Film and Television » Read Now
by Eleanor Hersey. 12 pgs.

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...governments oppression of Native Americans. Rather than accepting Mulder...considered by many fans to be one of the worst episodes ever, whereas...purity and transparency...
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Whose Home on the Range? Finding Room for Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans in the Revisionist Western, in MELUS » Read Now
by Donald Hoffman. 15 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Rides the Range. These images lead to the final inscriptions...destroyed by the advance of white "civilization," the fact that African Americans, 12% of the total...
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Native American Documentary: An Emerging Genre?, in Film Criticism » Read Now
by Steven Leuthold. 16 pgs.

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...role of the media and how it could...to surface in native communities...1970s, a time of affirmative...rights for Native Americans only strengthened...considering...
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Superficiality and Bias: The (Mis) Treatment of Native Americans in U.S. Government Textbooks, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Jeffrey S. Ashley, Karen Jarratt-Ziemski. 14 pgs.

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...and adds to the belief that Native Americans are but another racial minority. Of the nineteen books examined...populations refers to the images, stereotypes, and...
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Banning "Redskins" From the Sports Page: The Ethics and Politics of Native American Nicknames, in Journal of Mass Media Ethics » Read Now
by Robert Jensen. 10 pgs.

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...that Native Americans "are forced...the Indians of White imagination...teams use of Native American names and images has been...the popular media of the 1990s...represent...
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What's in a Name? A Historical Look at Native American-Related Nicknames and Symbols at Three U.S. Universities, in Journal of Higher Education » Read Now
by Mark R. Connolly. 33 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...nicknames and images as being respectful of Native Americans was a tactic...invisibility of Native Americans was perpetuated by popular media that usually...control to...