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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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.