Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
by Raibmon, Paige Sylvia

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In 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 radical superiority. Raibmon shows that Whites and Aboriginals were collaborators – albeit unequal ones – in 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.

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ISBN-10:	0822335476
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780822335474
Author:	Raibmon, Paige Sylvia
Publisher:	Duke University Press Durham, NC
Publication Date:	6/2005
Pages:	307 pp
Size/Dimensions:	6.18 x 0.77 x 9.36 inches
Binding:	Paperback

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Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coastby Raibmon, Paige Sylvia

Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
by Raibmon, Paige Sylvia