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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 The Imaginary Indian, 1st EditionThe Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture |
First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to … | Daniel Francis | 284 | 1992 | View |
The Imaginary Indian, 2nd EditionThe Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture |
First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to … | Daniel Francis | 284 | 1992 | View |
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From Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, Introduction |
Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is … | Daniel Francis | 43 | 1992 | $1.72 Add |
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From Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, Introduction |
Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is … | Daniel Francis | 43 | 1992 | $1.72 Add |
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From  Original Peoples to 1671From: North of Superior |
Looks at the Aboriginal cultures that flourished in this region before the arrival of Europeans. Breaks down the extended history into The Paleo-Americans, The Shield Archaic Peoples, The … | Chris Southcott; Michel S. Beaulieu | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From Taking the ImagePart I |
The author opens part I of the book with a critique of one of the most famous Canadian themed paintings—The Death of Wolfe by Benjamin West and calls it a lie. | Daniel Francis | 25 | 1992 | $0.50 Add |
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From Taking the ImagePart I |
The author opens part I of the book with a critique of one of the most famous Canadian themed paintings—The Death of Wolfe by Benjamin West and calls it a lie. The author opens part I of … | Daniel Francis | 25 | 1992 | $0.50 Add |
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From The Vanishing Canadian |
This chapter calls out the 18th and 19th artists like Paul Kane, Edward Curtis, and others for taking the Indian image and manipulating and displaying in any way they wanted. The image-makers … | Daniel Francis | 50 | 1992 | $2.50 Add |
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From The Vanishing Canadian |
This chapter calls out the 18th and 19th artists like Paul Kane, Edward Curtis, and others for taking the Indian image and manipulating and displaying in any way they wanted. The image-makers … | Daniel Francis | 50 | 1992 | $2.50 Add |
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From Presenting the ImagePart II |
Non-Native Canadians came to know the Indian: in books, in public performance, at country fairs, in museums and schoolrooms, at summer camp and in the movies. There were very few places, in fact, … | Daniel Francis | 24 | 1992 | $0.48 Add |
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From Presenting the ImagePart II |
Non-Native Canadians came to know the Indian: in books, in public performance, at country fairs, in museums and schoolrooms, at summer camp and in the movies. There were very few places, in fact, … | Daniel Francis | 24 | 1992 | $0.48 Add |
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From Performing Indians |
Movies, shows and theatre invariably situate Indians in the past, usually on the western frontier. The result is that Indians in the movies seem marginal to modern life. Sympathetic regret or … | Daniel Francis | 45 | 1992 | $1.80 Add |
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From Performing Indians |
Movies, shows and theatre invariably situate Indians in the past, usually on the western frontier. The result is that Indians in the movies seem marginal to modern life. Sympathetic regret or … | Daniel Francis | 45 | 1992 | $1.80 Add |
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From Celebrity Indians and Plastic Shamans |
Non-native Canadians have always formed their impressions of the Indian without much reference to actual Native people, and especially without hearing what Native people might have to say about … | Daniel Francis | 58 | 1992 | $2.90 Add |
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From Celebrity Indians and Plastic Shamans |
Non-native Canadians have always formed their impressions of the Indian without much reference to actual Native people, and especially without hearing what Native people might have to say about … | Daniel Francis | 58 | 1992 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Reconciliation with Indigenous ghosts: On the politics of postcolonial ghost storiesFrom: Home and Native Land |
Considers how postcolonial ghost stories – stories that use the figure of the Indigenous ghost to make sense of colonial and postcolonial relations – incorporate the tensions, … | Emilie Cameron | 17 | 2011 | $1.70 Add |
