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Informationen zum Autor Paige Raibmon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Klappentext "There is nothing in the existing historical literature that accomplishes what this book does. It vividly depicts the interplay of ideas, strategies, and practical considerations during a period that has had significant and long-lasting impacts on everyone's ideas about 'Indianness.' Admirably, Paige Raibmon insists that we consider non-Indians' ideas in relationship to Indians' ideas and strategies, something few existing works do."--Alexandra Harmon, author of "Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound" Zusammenfassung Analyzes cultural adaptation among aboriginal people in the Pacific Northwest! tracing the colonial origins and political implications of ideas about native "authenticity." Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Authenticity and Colonial Cosmology 1 1. Local Politics and Colonial Relations: The Kwakwaka'wakw at Home on the Northwest Coast 15 2. "The March of the Aborigine to Civilization": Live Exhibits and the World's Columbian Exhibition, 1893 34 3. Theaters of Contact: The Kwakwaka'wakh at the Fair 50 4. Picking, Posing, and Performing: Puget Sound Hop Fields and Income for Aboriginal Workers 74 5. Harvest Gatherings: Aboriginal Agendas, Economy, and Culture 98 6. Indian Watchers: Colonial Imagination and Colonial Reality 116 7. The Inside Passage to Authenticity: Sitka Tourism and the Tlingit 135 8. "The Trend is Upward": Mission and Cottage Life 157 9. Civilization on Trial: The Davis Case 175 Conclusion: Authenticity's Call 198 List of Abbreviations 209 Notes 211 Bibliography 261 Index 295
