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Citizen Indians - Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Citizen Indians - Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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By the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American
Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild West shows, Chautauquas,
civic pageants, expositions, and fairs, American Indians were most
often cast as victims, noble remnants of a vanishing race, or
docile candidates for complete assimilation. However, as Lucy
Maddox demonstrates in Citizen Indians, some prominent Indian
intellectuals of the era - including Gertrude Bonnin, Charles
Eastman, and Arthur C. Parker - were able to adapt and reshape the
forms of public performance as one means of entering the national
conversation and as a core strategy in the pantribal reform efforts
that paralleled other Progressive-era reform movements. Maddox
examines the work of American Indian intellectuals and reformers in
the context of the Society of American Indians, which brought
together educated, professional Indians in a period when the Indian
question loomed large. These thinkers belonged to the first
generation of middle-class American Indians more concerned with
racial categories and civil rights than with the status of
individual tribes. abrogation of the treaty process, the removal of
Indian children to boarding schools, and the continuing denial of
birthright citizenship to Indians that maintained their status as
wards of the state. By adapting forms of public discourse and
performance already familiar to white audiences, Maddox argues,
American Indian reformers could more effectively pursue
self-representation and political autonomy.
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