This is the first in-depth look at how newspapers and news-making practices shaped the representations of Native Americans, a contradictory representation that has carried over into our own time.
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"Greeley's contempt for Indian people as lazy, violent, unprogressive, and unworthy of justice mirrored a larger national view that had flourished since the first captivity narratives had been published in Puritan New England... Coward's book emerges as the most comprehensive and authoritative account of journalistic treatment of American Indians in the nineteenth century." -- Michael L. Tate, South Dakota History "Coward's outstanding study ... places Indian stereotyping within a broader historical context and demonstrates the continuity of popular misconceptions... Extremely well written, researched, and organized, this monograph makes a major contribution to nineteenth-century Native American historiography and provides unique insights into the press's role in molding the popular imagination." -- Thomas A. Britten, The Historian "Ideal for an undergraduate class since it is written in an informed and up-to-date, but very accessible style... An engaging read." -- Gillian Poulter, Left History "A strong contribution to research engaging the complexities resulting from the nineteenth century newspaper accounts of American Indians... A lucid analysis of why perceptions of American Indians by the American public and the American press even to this day are biased, unbalanced, and unclear." -- John Sanchez, Rhetoric and Public Affairs "Every scholar who uses newspaper sources in the study of nineteenth-century Indian affairs would do well to read it carefully." -- Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., New Mexico Historical Review
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THE contemporary Native American stereotype-a horse-mounted plains warrior in war bonnet and buckskin-has its roots in the romantic images of nineteenth-century popular culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antebellum press, removal debate, newspaper representations, eastern papers, massacre story, newspaper exchanges, eastern press, telegraph reports, war reporting, antebellum news Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sitting Bull, New York, Sand Creek, Native Americans, Little Bighorn, Civil War, United States, Daily Rocky Mountain News, Bright Eyes, Chicago Tribune, Indian Territory, Bismarck Tribune, University of Oklahoma Press, Buffalo Bill, Phil Kearney, Standing Bear, Weekly Register, Harper's Weekly, Western Weekly Review, American Indians, Fort Buford, Fort Phil Kearny, Helen Hunt Jackson, New Orleans Picayune, Wild West New!
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THE contemporary Native American stereotype-a horse-mounted plains warrior in war bonnet and buckskin-has its roots in the romantic images of nineteenth-century popular culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antebellum press, removal debate, newspaper representations, eastern papers, massacre story, newspaper exchanges, eastern press, telegraph reports, war reporting, antebellum news Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sitting Bull, New York, Sand Creek, Native Americans, Little Bighorn, Civil War, United States, Daily Rocky Mountain News, Bright Eyes, Chicago Tribune, Indian Territory, Bismarck Tribune, University of Oklahoma Press, Buffalo Bill, Phil Kearney, Standing Bear, Weekly Register, Harper's Weekly, Western Weekly Review, American Indians, Fort Buford, Fort Phil Kearny, Helen Hunt Jackson, New Orleans Picayune, Wild West New!
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- A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson on 7 pages
- Sitting Bull (Collections Litterature) (French Edition) by Robert Utley on 7 pages
- Native Americans (Nature Company Discoveries Libraries) by Judith Simpson on 5 pages
- The Fighting Cheyennes by George Bird Grinnell on 5 pages
- Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians by Grant Foreman on 4 pages
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