The Significance of the Twentieth-Century American Indian in American and Canadian History

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Fred H. Nicklason ◽  
Douglas D. Martin ◽  
John L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Canadian History

Rewriting the Narrative

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-77
Author(s):  
Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
The 1960S

A vibrant American Indian art scene developed in California from the 1960s to the 1980s, with links to a broader indigenous arts movement. Native American artists working in the state produced and exhibited paintings, prints, sculptures, mixed media, and other art forms that validated and documented their cultures, interpreted their history, asserted their survival, and explored their experiences in modern society. Building on recent scholarship that examines American Indian migration, urbanization, and activism in the twentieth century, this article charts these developments and argues that American Indian artists in California challenged and rewrote dominant historical narratives by foregrounding Native American perspectives in their work.

We Worked and Made Beautiful Things

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-97
Author(s):  
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

During the early twentieth century, Kiowa people expertly deployed material culture as symbols of themselves as a people. Beadwork specifically illustrated the significance of kinship and is use and exchange among people, which constructed family relationships and a sense of belongingness. Beadwork and other expressive forms were highlighted in the American Indian Exposition, a fair, and an event, which provided a venue of public display that encouraged intertribal competition. The chapter also examines the representation of young women as American Indian Exposition princesses.

Archaeology and the Image of the American Indian

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Trigger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Functional Interpretation ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
New Archaeology

Archaeologists have treated American native peoples in a detached and somewhat pejorative fashion. In an attempt to explain this treatment, the development of American archaeology is examined in relation to changing views of native peoples that archaeologists have held. In the nineteenth century, native peoples were regarded as unprogressive savages, a view reflected in the "Mound Builder" myth, which held that the spectacular earthworks which were then the object of considerable antiquarian interest were the work of non-Indians. In the first half of the twentieth century, given a declining interest in the functional interpretation of archaeological data and a loosening of ties with ethnography, there was even less concern with native peoples. The New Archaeology continues to treat native peoples as objects rather than subjects of research. It is suggested that greater concern with Indian and Eskimo history might help to correct this.

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