CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ernest Thompson Seton, Chris Eyre, Gary Farmer
9 Aug 2016
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To discuss the effect that the imaginary indian has had on first nations. Indians as a source of values that are believed to have been lost. Indian represents what white people are not. Indians are a dying race (seen a lot in 19th century) Indians live in the past (historical identity) Indians are romanticized or depicted as savages (in movies, novels) Indians have a monolithic culture (portrayed wearing costumes and clothing -single culture) Contributes to the romanticization of the indian image. Promotes the belief that the indian is vanishing (linked to belief that aboriginal race was a dying race; the white person must preserve native culture by painting it before its gone) Reviewer: one must make haste to few one redman. Their tribe, not long since still masters a whole world, are disappearing rapidly, driven back and destroyed. Marketed fact that audience was seeing real indians in staged performances. People cheered when indians were beat (american values)
