North American Indian Hardcover Christopher Davis Book

This listing is for North American Indian Hardcover Christopher Davis.

Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd; 2ND edition (January 30, 1970)
Language: English

The North American Indian's fascinating history, then brings the reader up to present (1969). Includes maps, and more than 150 prints, paintings and photographs.

"For most people, all they know about Indians is what they see in Westerns. This book tries to tell you something nearer the truth ..." The signature is scarcely legible, but everyone knew who it was, from the picture: Marlon Brando. Even though he was a movie actor, he meant books as much as Hollywood rubbish when he said "Westerns". Like most books about Indians, at least after WW2, it's profusely illustrated ("profusely" used advisedly; many pics sprawl across the pages).

THE TRAIL OF THE INDIAN

Painting of priest with Indians (they look as Asian as American, or maybe even Negroid).

Dead man, at Wounded Knee.

Old prints of outlandish people.

Painting of Wm Penn with exotics, sympathetically portrayed.
Pictures of Indians in flight before Andrew Jackson's salt of the earth, being transported (by their own feet).

Out of the chronology, a picture of a European, dressed beyond the nines (French), with a bunch of tattooed
Americans, whiter than Englishmen. Sometimes people don't see skin color. But they were different all right.

Tecumseh. A portrait by a sympathiser (he doesn't quite look Indian).

Tho Jefferson. (Sometimes he liked Indians, sometimes he didn't. He was a land speculator, which means he really didn't.)

Sioux war chiefs.

People dressed like them.

Geronimo. (You've seen this picture.)

Geronimo and the Apache, sitting on the railbead of a train transporting them East. Women and children, too, all pretty scary to Anglo and Mexican.

Wounded Knee again. Before and after (yes, wars were already fought in front of cameras).

ETC

THE INDIAN TODAY

Glen Canyon (its remnant).

The Badlands (a part seized from the Lakota in 1942 for bombing practice).

Seminole village.

Hollywood Indian (played by Brando?)

Indians sitting and standing, on various Rezzes, various ages. But as many pretty girls as they could find.

ETC

Good text throughout, though smacking of the magazine style of the time. Redolent of the time, and characteristic of the attitudes that represented Middle America's one suspicion that it might have Done the Wrong Thing. And, in 1969, people were a little more ready to listen to that than they had been twenty years earlier or twenty years later. Now, maybe none of it matters

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