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Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Raibmon, Paige

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Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 0822335476
ISBN13: 9780822335474
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 21 2005
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about real Indians. Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, she describes how government officials, missionaries, anthropologists, reformers, settlers, and tourists developed definitions of Indian authenticity based on such binaries as Indian versus White, traditional versus modern, and uncivilized versus civilized. They recognized as authentic only those expressions of Indianness that conformed to their limited definitions and reflected their sense of colonial legitimacy and racial superiority. Raibmon shows that Whites and Aboriginals were collaborators--albeit unequal ones--in the politics of authenticity. Non-Aboriginal people employed definitions of Indian culture that limited Aboriginal claims to resources, land, and sovereignty, while Aboriginals utilized those same definitions to access the social, political, and economic means necessary for their survival under colonialism.

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