HIST 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Noble Savage, Ethnology, Kent Monkman
14 Nov 2016
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Racist portrayal of indg ppls, historical construction. Indians as non-natives perceive them are a construct, a concept, build by non-natives. Women hyper-sexualized, men hyper-masculinized, all w/in western social context. Peace loving, stuck in the past, simple, authentic . No desire to know real indg ppls--settlers merely projected their fears/hope onto indg ppls. When relations r p good, images projected onto indg ppls r more favorable. But once non-indg ppls dont need indg military allies, imagery changes. American artist george catlin, canadian artist paul kane, and later american photographer edward s. curtis. Want to save/preserve indg ppls by documenting them. Try to portray indg ppls w/out contact, totally in opposition to reality. Anthropologists, historians, sociologists also take part in movement to. Portrayals r not innocent--affect policy, indg identity/self-perception. Dime novels and buffalo bill"s wild west. People all over western world get their image of indg ppls from dns.
