After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated
journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of "buckskinned
braves" and "Indian princesses" proved an immensely popular
attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly . In Indians Illustrated
, John M. Coward charts a social and cultural history of Native
American illustrations--romantic, violent, racist, peaceful, and
otherwise--in the heyday of the American pictorial press. These
woodblock engravings and ink drawings placed Native Americans into
categories that drew from venerable "good" Indian and "bad" Indian
stereotypes already threaded through the culture. Coward's examples
show how the genre cemented white ideas about how Indians should
look and behave--ideas that diminished Native Americans' cultural
values and political influence. His powerful analysis of themes and
visual tropes unlocks the racial codes and visual cues that whites
used to represent--and marginalize--native cultures already engaged
in a twilight struggle against inexorable westward expansion.
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