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The newspaper Indian : Native American identity in the press, 1820-90 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coward, John M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999]
Series:History of communication.
Subjects:
Indians > Press coverage > United States.
Journalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Discovery, destiny, and savagery : imagining Indians in America
  • Romance and rumor : the Indian in the antebellum press
  • Explaining Indian removal
  • The Daily Rocky Mountain news and the scandal of Sand Creek
  • The war in words : reporting the Fetterman fight
  • The making of an Indian villain : Sitting Bull in war and peace
  • Indian reformers and the idealized indian.