Vaudeville Indians on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s Bold Christine
Uncovering hidden histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and in the creation of western modernity and popular cultureDrawing from little-known archives, Christine Bold brings to light…
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Uncovering hidden histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and in the creation of western modernity and popular cultureDrawing from little-known archives, Christine Bold brings to light forgotten histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and, by extension, popular culture and modernity. Vaudeville was both a forerunner of modern mass entertainment and a rich site of popular Indigenous performance and notions of Indianness at the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the stories of artists Native to Turtle Island (North America) performing across the continent and around the world, Bold illustrates a network of more than 300 Indigenous and Indigenous-identifying entertainers, from Will Rogers to Go-won-go Mohawk to Princess Chinquilla, who upend vaudeville's received history. These fascinating stories cumulatively reveal vaudeville as a space in which the