Raibmon Authentic Indians

Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8677-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

Analyzes cultural adaptation among aboriginal people in the Pacific Northwest, tracing the colonial origins and political implications of ideas about native "authenticity."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raibmon, Paige

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Authenticity and Colonial Cosmology 1

1. Local Politics and Colonial Relations: The Kwakwaka'wakw at Home on the Northwest Coast 15

2. "The March of the Aborigine to Civilization": Live Exhibits and the World's Columbian Exhibition, 1893 34

3. Theaters of Contact: The Kwakwaka'wakh at the Fair 50

4. Picking, Posing, and Performing: Puget Sound Hop Fields and Income for Aboriginal Workers 74

5. Harvest Gatherings: Aboriginal Agendas, Economy, and Culture 98

6. Indian Watchers: Colonial Imagination and Colonial Reality 116

7. The Inside Passage to Authenticity: Sitka Tourism and the Tlingit 135

8. "The Trend is Upward": Mission and Cottage Life 157

9. Civilization on Trial: The Davis Case 175

Conclusion: Authenticity's Call 198

List of Abbreviations 209

Notes 211

Bibliography 261

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Paige Raibmon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.