Authentic Indians : episodes of encounter from the late-nineteenth-century Northwest coast

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Authentic Indians : episodes of encounter from the late-nineteenth-century Northwest coast / Paige Raibmon.

Raibmon, Paige Sylvia, 1971- (Author).

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In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about "real Indians." Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, she describes how government officials, missionaries, anthropologists, reformers, settlers, and tourists developed definitions of Indian authenticity based on such binaries as Indian versus White, traditional versus modern, and uncivilized versus civilized. They recognized as authentic only those expressions of "Indianness" that conformed to their limited definitions and reflected their sense of colonial legitimacy and racial superiority. Raibmon shows that Whites and Aboriginals were collaborators--albeit unequal ones--in the politics of authenticity. Non-Aboriginal people employed definitions of Indian culture that limited Aboriginal claims to resources, land, and sovereignty, while Aboriginals utilized those same definitions to access the social, political, and economic means necessary for their survival under colonialism.

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ISBN: 0822335476
ISBN: 9780822335474
Physical Description: xv, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "A John Hope Franklin Center book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references pages (261-293) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction: authenticity and colonial cosmology -- Local politics and colonial relations : the Kwakwaka'wakw at home on the Northwest coast -- "The march of the aborigine to civilization" : live exhibits and the world's Columbian exposition, 1893 -- Theaters of contact : the Kwakwaka'wakw at the fair -- Picking, posing, and performing : the hop fields and income for aboriginal workers -- Harvest gatherings : aboriginal agendas, economy, and culture -- Indian watchers : colonial imagination and colonial reality -- The inside passage to authenticity : Sitka tourism and the Tlingit -- "The trend is upward" : mission and cottage life -- Civilization on trial : the Davis case -- Conclusion: authenticity's call.

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Subject:: Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Northwest, Pacific.
Indians, Treatment of > Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century.
Northwest, Pacific > Race relations.
Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century.
Native peoples > Northwest, Pacific > Ethnic identity.
Native peoples > Northwest, Pacific > Cultural assimilation.
Native peoples, Treatment of > Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century.
Indiens d'Amérique > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord) > Identité ethnique.
Indiens d'Amérique > Acculturation > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)
Indiens d'Amérique, Attitudes envers les > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord) > Relations raciales.
Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indians, Treatment of.
Race relations.
Pacific Northwest.
Akkulturation
Ethnische Beziehungen
Ethnische Identität
Indianer
USA > Nordweststaaten
Nordamerika
Indianer.
Genre:: History.

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