William W. Savage - Indian Life: Transforming an American Myth
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Indians of North America--Great Plains--Public opinion, Public opinion--United States.
publication date
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1977
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E78.G73I53eb
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301.15/43/97800497
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Indians of North America--Great Plains--Public opinion, Public opinion--United States.
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Indian Life
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Indian Life
Transforming an American Myth
Edited and with an Introduction by William W. Savage, Jr.
University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and London
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By William W. Savage, Jr.
The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association (Columbia, Missouri, 1973)
(Editor) Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth (Norman, 1975)
(Editor, with David Harry Miller) The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin, by Frederick Jackson Turner (Norman, 1977)
(Editor) Indian Life: Transforming an American Myth (Norman, 1977)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Main entry under title:
Indian life.
Includes bibliographical references. I. Indians of North AmericaGreat PlainsPublic opinion. 2. Public opinionUnited States. I. Savage, William W. E78.G73I53 301.15'43'97800497 779111 ISBN: 0806114347 (cloth) ISBN: 0806125136 (paper)
Copyright 1977 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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To the memory of Sitting Bull
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Preface
This book is a companion volume to Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth. Like the earlier work, it concerns the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century, and its focus is the Great Plains region. It has to do with the images of Indians developed by whites to justify white expansion into Indian domain, and thus it examines the political utility of myth. As an analysis of items in America's cultural baggage, unlike Cowboy Life it constitutes a pessimistic exercise.
The photographs and the narratives were again drawn from materials in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma Library. I wish to thank John S. Ezell, curator of the collections, and staff members Jack D. haley and H. Glenn Jordan, all of whom contributed generously of their time and energy to the completion of this project.
To my friend and colleague David Harry Miller, who shared with me the results of his research into ethnic stereotyping on the Roman frontier and thereby extended my own thinking about the general problem of culture contact in frontier situations, I offer special thanks.
To Shane, who helped me to understand prejudice by being so completely devoid of it, I am most grateful.
WILLIAM W. SAVAGE, JR. NORMAN, OKLAHOMA JULY 13, 1976
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Contents
Preface
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Editor's Introduction
3
"He Remains a Savage Simply from Lack of a Code of Morals" (1882)
Richard Irving Dodge
17
"Jack, I Haven't Had an Indian to Eat for a Long Time" (1886)
Jacob Piattdunn
47
"Their Music Is Fitter for Hell Than for Earth" (1890)
John F. Finerty
91
"Indians Never Spare Anyone Who Is in Their Power" (1890)
Charles Alston Messiter
99
"There Are a Great Many Indians and a Great Many Reservations" (1892)
Richard Harding Davis
111
"He Looked Every Inch a Chief" (1903)
Andy Adams
141
"The Great Warrior Straightened Up Like an Arrow" (1877)
Edw Ard L. Wheeler
163
"'It's My Injun, Boys,' He Cried Exultantly" (1881)
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