"Indian Country" analyzes the works of Anglo writers and artists
who encountered American Indians in the course of their travels in
the Southwest during the one-hundred-year period beginning in 1840.
Martin Padget looks first at the accounts produced by
government-sponsored explorers, most notably John Wesley Powells
writings about the Colorado Plateau. He goes on to survey the
writers who popularized the region in fiction and travelogue,
including Helen Hunt Jackson and Charles F. Lummis. He also
introduces us to Eldridge Ayer Burbank, an often-overlooked artist
who between 1897 and 1917 made thousands of paintings and drawings
of Indians from over 140 western tribes.
Padget addresses two topics: how the Southwest emerged as a
distinctive region in the minds of late-nineteenth- and
early-twentieth-century Americans, and what impact these
conceptions, and the growing presence of Anglos, had on Indians in
the region. Popular writers like Jackson and Lummis presented the
American Indians as a primitive culture waiting to be discovered
and experienced firsthand. Later, as Padget shows, Anglo activists
for Indian rights, such as Mabel Dodge Luhan and Mary Austin,
worked for the acceptance of other views of Native Americans and
their cultures.
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