by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 12, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Hudson’s Bay Company, missionary movement, noble savage, Peter Rindisbacher, plains Indians, rousseau
I keep trying to write about “assimilation,” because I know that Alvin considered it—the ways in which the white power structure has “zigzagged,” as he put it, with policies and actions aimed at “making Indians stop being Indians and turn themselves into...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 26, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, caribbean indians, christopher columbus, edward curtis, john white, noble savage, rousseau, Trail of Tears, vanishing Indian, vanishing race
Relationships between European immigrants and indigenous people in the Americas have been complicated from the beginning. Columbus and his henchmen squeezed the Caribbeans of gold, enslaved them, annihilated some tribes, and took the case of indigenous...
