The white man's Indian : images of the American Indian from Columbus to the present

Summary: While the term "Indians" stems from the faulty geography of Columbus, that name and the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an ideological weapon in their subjugation. This text documents the self-serving stereotypes--ranging from Noble savage to bloodthirsty redskin--that Europeans and white Americans have concocted about the "Indian."

Record details

ISBN: 0394727940
ISBN: 9780394484853
ISBN: 0394484851
Physical Description: print
xvii, 261 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©1978.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The idea of the Indian : invention and perpetuation -- From religion to anthropology : the genealogy of the scientific image of the Indian -- Imagery in literature, art, and philosophy : the Indian in white imagination and ideology -- Imagery and white policy : the Indian as justification and rationale.