Indians Illustrated Coward John M
Indians Illustrated Coward John M After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. In Indians Illustrated, John M. Engravings and drawings of "buckskinned…
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Indians Illustrated Coward John M
After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. In Indians Illustrated, John M. 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 .
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 charts a social and cultural history of Native American illustrations--romantic, violent, racist, peaceful, and otherwise--in the heyday of the American pictorial press. 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