ANTH 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: European Colonialism, Romanticism, Pawnee Bill
9 Feb 2018
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Settlers creating conflicts with indigenous already present. He became the leader of significant apache resistance movements. By late 1800"s, us had suppressed most apache resistances. 10 years after 1894, released from military camp, he found himself in different line of work. Commonplace practice of doing this to native americans. Indian becomes to exist as fantasy, mythic, entertainment object rather than actual human being. Two different ways indigenous people are seen in popular culture. Not so new to europeans once they arrived. Already populated by people living there for a long while. Encounters that european explorers had with native society didn"t lead to too many favorable impressions. Written reports and reflections of indigenous societies. Generating over-arching idea of natives as being primitive, simple, unintelligent . At worst: dangerous, evil, godless, linked to devil, violence, savage, cannibal, etc. Strange and somehow primitive forms of humanity. Belief that white, american settlers were ordained by god to spread across north.
