Some people refer to themselves as Native or Indian most prefer Indian’ out of our name.” As he responds, “Native Americans use a range of words to describe themselves, andĪll are appropriate.
Indian, comments, “people ask at least once per day when we are going to take ‘American “At the museumsĪnd on social media,” Kevin Gover, director of the National Museum of the American Questions about indigenous people often begin with terminology. Their populations, lands, resources, and sovereignty. Representations obliterate or mask the realities of tribal nations struggling to maintain Romantic princesses, and countless ignoble images of brutality and degradation. Images and others include dual portrayals of the good Indian (those who help Europeans)Īnd the bad Indian (those who resist Europeans), nostalgic vanishing, brave warriors, Institutionalized throughout the nation and exported to other countries, these armed forces to express military might, by American corporations Government to distinguish the United States from other nations and to define the nationįor its citizens, by U.S. Ganteaume points out, “American Indian imagery has been used by the federal As National Museum of the American Indian curatorĬécile R.
With a laudable national heritage while serving to rationalize the dispossession andĬonquest of indigenous peoples. During the Revolutionary period, America was portrayed asĪ feathered Indian defying British tyranny in printed materials of the day.Īs the United States grew, it developed a mythology that helped provide Americans Her successor, the Indian Princess, became representative Indian Queen, an emblematic figure in use by the end of the sixteenth century, symbolized In the international iconography of the day, representations that proliferated. Initially,ĭepictions of Native males and females were used to symbolize the North American continent Tobacconist figures, weather vanes, coins and medals, and books and prints. In early drawings, engravings, portraiture, political prints, maps and cartouches, įrom the earliest period of European colonization, images of Indians found expression Itself in national narratives, popular entertainments, marketing schemes, sporting Sense of entitlement, this expression of white privilege, has a long history, manifesting
Indianness is a national heritage it is a fount for commercial enterprise it isĪ costume one can put on for a party, a youth activity, or a sporting event. Implies that everyone has a right to use Indians as they see fit everyone owns them. MolinĪ common belief in the contemporary United States, often unspoken and unconscious, I is for Ignoble: Stereotyping Native Americansīy Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette F.
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