Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History

Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American HistoryAs tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Unto These Hills in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged performances that

Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

A Phrasebook in the Chippewa language with emphasis on the traditional

Unpredictable

A significant departure from traditional anthropological "as told to" American Indian autobiography

This volume combines an array of literature with illuminating interviews

Cyr vividly to life

Neighboring Dakota people would trade a pony for a beautiful beaded bag

and changing family dynamics on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation

This is a foundational book about building relationships

he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail

The novel's characters emerge from deep within Abinhinaabeg thought to commune beyond an unnatural urban-settler world littered with SpongeBob Band-Aids

The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty