INDG 200 Lecture 14: Lecture 14- Playing "Indian", Performance, Hollywood "Indians and Eskimos" and Authenticity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 200
• Professor: Allan Downey

Document Summary

Indians don"t exist (indians as non-natives perceive them are a construct, a concept, built by non-natives: american artist george catlin, canadian artist paul kane, and later. It is because of these travelling shows that the stereotypical indians today resemble indigenous people from the plains: noble savage and bloodthirsty savage, good and bad indians, noble savage myth. Innocent, peace-loving, virtuous, free of vanity that came from contemporary living: pocahontas, bloodthirsty savage myth. Indigenous people are seen as cruel, barbaric, and uncivilized. Indigenous people are noble when the settlers want good relations, or bloodthirsty when they are in the way: visual culture, wild west shows, and early film. Nanook: all western ideas and object were excluded from the film (western dress, housing, and guns) Inuit relations post-ww2: farley mowat"s people of the deer and richard harrington"s the fact of the arctic. In the early 1950s the two authors unveil the issues associated with inuit life.