Authentic Indians : episodes of encounter from the late-nineteenth-century Northwest coast /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Raibmon, Paige Sylvia, 1971-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Ethnic identity. Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Cultural assimilation. Indians, Treatment of > Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century. Northwest, Pacific > Race relations. Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction: authenticity and colonial cosmology
Local politics and colonial relations : the Kwakwaka'wakw at home on the Northwest coast
"The march of the aborigine to civilization" : live exhibits and the world's Columbian exposition, 1893
Theaters of contact : the Kwakwaka'wakw at the fair
Picking, posing, and performing : the hop fields and income for aboriginal workers
Harvest gatherings : aboriginal agendas, economy, and culture
Indian watchers : colonial imagination and colonial reality
The inside passage to authenticity : Sitka tourism and the Tlingit
"The trend is upward" : mission and cottage life
Civilization on trial : the Davis case
Conclusion: authenticity's call.