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Reimagining Indians
Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940
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Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers
whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans'
understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century.
Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to
the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to
Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about
modern American culture, these writers produced a body of work that
celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity.
Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers,
their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing
their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture,
they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural survival
in a world indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also encouraged
notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American
thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks
to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history,
and the history of the American West.
