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Indians on Display Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums
By Norman K Denzin
Copyright 2013
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Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions by George Catlin, paintings by Charles King, and Wild West shows by Buffalo Bill Cody were... Read more
Introduction; chapterOne Selling Indians: Traveling wild West Shows, Painters, Minstrels, and Museums; chapterTwo Charles Bird King’s Studio Indians; chapterThree The Traveling Indian Medicine Show; chapterFour; chapterFive; chapterSix Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill; chapterSeven Ghost Dancers in Germany; chapterEight;
Biography
Denzin, Norman K
