From enemy to inspiration: Charles Erskine Scott Wood and the meaning of Indians -- George Bird Grinnell and the "vanishing" Plains Indian cultures -- Among the Blackfeet: Walter McClintock and Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Native son: Frank Bird Linderman -- Charles Fletcher Lummis and the fight for the multicultural Southwest -- Out of Arizona: George Wharton James -- Sisters of the Southwest: Mary Austin and Anna Ickes -- Mabel Dodge Luhan: muse of Taos.
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Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writerswhose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans'understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled tothe American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn toIndian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful aboutmodern American culture, these writers produced a body of work thatcelebrates Indian.
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Reimagining Indians.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Indians of North America-- Government relations.
Literature and history-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Literature and history-- United States-- History-- 20th century.