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Going Native Going Native Indians in the American Cultural Imagination SHARI M. HUHNDORF Cornell University Press Ithaca and London Copyright© 2001 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 5 r 2 East SI.ale Street, Ithaca, New York r 4850. ~~irst published 2oor by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 200 r Printed in the United Stal.es of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dal.a 1-luhndorf, Slrnri M. (Shari Michelle), 1965- Going native: Indians in the American cultural imagination I Shari M. l-luhndorr. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-o-8or4-8695-r (pbk.: alk. paper) r. Indians of North America-Public opinion. 2. Public opinion-United Stal.es. 3. Nationalism-United Stal.es. 4. Indians in literature I. Title. E98.P99 H85 200 I 973.04'97- dc21 00-010814 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website al w'vw.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Paperback printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 For my parents, Roy and Charlene Huhndorf, and my sister, Charlsie HuhndorfA rend The Indian Wars have never ended in the Americas. -Leslie Mannon Silko, Almanac of the Dead Indians, the original possessors of the land, seem to haunt the collec tive unconscious of the white man and to the degree that one can iden tify the conflicting images of the Indian which stalk the white man's waking perceptions of the world one can outline the deeper problems of identity and alienation that trouble him ....U nderneath all the con flicting images of the Indian one fundamental truth emerges-the white man knows that he is an alien and he knows that North America is Indian-and he will never let go of the Indian image because he thinks that by some clever manipulation he can achieve an authenticity that cannot ever be his. -Vine Deloria, Jr., "American Fantasy" Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION "Jj' Only I Were an Indian" CHAPTER ONE Imagining America: Race, Nation, and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century 19 CHAPTER TWO Nanook and His Contemporaries: Traveling with the Eskimos, r897-r94r 79 CHAPTER THREE The Making of an Indian: "Forrest" Carter's Literary Inventions 129 CHAPTER FOUR Rites of Conquest: Indian Captivities in the New Age 162 ix
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