{"product_id":"authentic-indians-episodes-of-encounter-from-the-latenineteenthcentury-northwest-coast-a-john-hope-franklin-center-book-9780822335474","title":"Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this innovative history  Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about real Indians. Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth  she describes how government officials  missionaries  anthropologists  reformers  settlers  and tourists developed definitions of Indian authenticity based on such binaries as Indian versus White  traditional versus modern  and uncivilized versus civilized. They recognized as authentic only those expressions of Indianness that conformed to their limited definitions and reflected their sense of colonial legitimacy and racial superiority. Raibmon shows that Whites and Aboriginals were collaboratorsalbeit unequal onesin the politics of authenticity. Non-Aboriginal people employed definitions of Indian culture that limited Aboriginal claims to resources  land  and sovereignty  while Aboriginals utilized those same definitions to access the social  political  and economic means necessary for their survival under colonialism. Drawing on research in newspapers  magazines  agency and missionary records  memoirs  and diaries  Raibmon combines cultural and labor history. She looks at three historical episodes: the participation of a group of Kwakwakawakw from Vancouver in the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago; the work of migrant Aboriginal laborers in the hop fields of Puget Sound; and the legal efforts of Tlingit artist Rudolph Walton to have his mixed-race step-children admitted to the white public school in Sitka  Alaska. Together these episodes reveal the consequences of outsiders attempts to define authentic Aboriginal culture. Raibmon argues that Aboriginal culture is much more than the reproduction of rituals; it also lies in the means by which Aboriginal people generate new and meaningful ways of identifying their place in a changing modern environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648211771445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0822335476","price":27.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780822335474.jpg?v=1781712858","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/authentic-indians-episodes-of-encounter-from-the-latenineteenthcentury-northwest-coast-a-john-hope-franklin-center-book-9780822335474","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}