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Shades of Hiawatha : staging Indians, making Americans, 1880-1930 / Alan Trachtenberg.
- Title
- Shades of Hiawatha : staging Indians, making Americans, 1880-1930 / Alan Trachtenberg.
- Author
- Trachtenberg, Alan
- Publication
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 369 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "A century ago, it was U.S. government policy to sever the tribal allegiances of Native Americans, limit their ancient liberties, and coercively prepare them for citizenship. At the same time, millions of new immigrants from Asia and Europe sought freedom in America by means of that same citizenship. In this work, Alan Trachtenberg argues that the two developments were, inevitably, juxtaposed in myriad ways: Indians and immigrants together preoccupied the public imagination, and together changed the idea of what it meant to be American."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
- Hiawatha, active 15th century
- Indians of North America > Public opinion
- Indians in popular culture > North America
- Indians of North America > Ethnic identity
- Indians in literature
- Immigrants in literature
- United States > Emigration and immigration
- United States > Race relations
- United States > Politics and government
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-352) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Dreaming Indian -- Singing Hiawatha -- Conceivable aliens -- Yiddish Hiawatha -- Ghostlier demarcations -- Wanamaker Indians -- The great bridge.
- ISBN
- 0374299757 (hc : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004042438
- OCLC
- 54400083
- SCSB-9901553
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library