Staging indigeneity : salvage tourism and the performance of Native American history /

As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in P...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillips, Katrina M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Discovering and defining salvage tourism
  • Days of old West are lived again : the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show
  • It's a part of us : the continued allure of Pendleton
  • Out of the darkness of tragedy : the creation of "Unto these hills"
  • We are telling our story : salvaging "Unto these hills"
  • No longer a wooden Indian from the history books : tourism, Tecumseh, and American nationalism
  • The great pretenders : playing Indian in "Tecumseh!"
  • Should you ask me, whence these stories?: the power of salvage tourism.