Indians and Europe

by Feest, Christian F.

• ISBN13: 9780803268975
• ISBN10: 0803268971
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

North American Indians have fired the imaginations of Europeans for the past five hundred years. The Native populations of North America have served a variety of European cultural and emotional needs, ranging from noble savage role models for Old World civilization to a more sympathetic portrayal as subjugated victims of American imperialism. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of essays offers the first in-depth, extended look at the complicated, changing relationship between European and Native peoples. The contributors explore three aspects of this relationship: Why and how did the cultures and histories of Europeans enable Native peoples to become absorbed into the reality of the Old World? What happened in actual encounters between American Indian visitors and their European hosts? How did continued and increased interaction between Indians and Europeans affect established imagery and preconceptions on both sides?

Author Biography

Christian Feest is the editor of European Review of Native American Studies and is currently a professor at the Institut für Historische Ethnologie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität. His books include Peoples of the Twilight: European Views on Native Minnesota, 1823–1862.

Table of Contents

Christian F. Feest
Preface	1	(4)
Susi Colin
The Wild Man and the Indian in Early 16th Century Book Illustration	5	(32)
Frank Lestringant
The Myth of the Indian Monarchy: An Aspect of the Controversy between Thevet and Lery (1575-1585)	37	(24)
William C. Sturtevant
David B. Quinn
This New Prey: Eskimos in Europe in 1567, 1576, and 1577	61	(80)
Peter J.P. Whitehead
Earliest Extant Painting of Greenlanders	141	(20)
Dale Idiens
Eskimos in Scotland, c. 1682-1924	161	(14)
George R. Hamell
Mohawks Abroad: The 1764 Amsterdam Etching of Sychnecta	175	(20)
Daniel E. Williams
Until They Are Contaminated by Their More Refined Neighbors: The Images of the Native Americans in Carver's "Travels Through the Interior" and its Influence on the Euro-American Imagination	195	(20)
Robin K. Wright
The Traveling Exhibition of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr.: Eskimos in Europe, 1822-1826	215	(20)
Heinz Israel
Johann Gottfried Schadow and his Inuit Portraits	235	(8)
J.C.H. King
Family of Botocudos Exhibited on Bond Street, in 1822	243	(10)
Christopher Mulvey
Among the Sag-a-noshes: Ojibwa and Iowa Indians with George Catlin in Europe, 1843-1848	253	(24)
Francesca Orestano
Dickens on the Indians	277	(10)
Laszlo Borsanyi
An Emerging Dual Image of Native North Americans During the 19th Century in Hungary	287	(10)
Izabella Rusinowa
Indians in the Reports of Polish Travelers of the Second Half of the 19th Century	297	(10)
Alexander Vaschenko
Some Russian Responses to North American Indian Cultures	307	(14)
Colin Taylor
William Blackmore: A 19th Century Englishman's Contribution to American Indian Ethnology	321	(16)
Wolfgang Haberland
Nine Bella Coolas in Germany	337	(38)
Miklos Letay
"Redskins at the Zoo": Sioux Indians in Budapest, 1886	375	(8)
Rita G. Napier
Across the Big Water: American Indians' Perceptions of Europe and Europeans, 1887-1906	383	(20)
Daniele Fiorentino
"Those Red-Brick Faces": European Press Reactions to the Indians of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show	403	(12)
Naila Clerici
Native Americans in Columbus's Home Land	415	(12)
R.D. Theisz
The Bad Speakers and the Long Braids: References to Foreign Enemies in Lakota Song Texts	427	(8)
Joelle Rostkowski
The Redman's Appeal for Justice: Deskaheh and the League of Nations	435	(20)
Rudolf Conrad
Mutual Fascination: Indians in Dresden and Leipzig	455	(20)
Peter Bolz
Life Among the "Hunkpapas": A Case Study of German Indian Lore	475	(16)
Fedora Giordano
North American Indians in Italian (1950-1981): A Bibliography of Books	491	(14)
Rudolf Kaiser
"A Fifth Gospel, Almost": Chief Seattle's Speech(es): American Origins and European Reception	505	(22)
Aribert Schroeder
"They Lived Together with Their Dogs and Horses": `Indian Copy' in West German Newspapers, 1968-1982	527	(24)
Bernd C. Peyer
Who is Afraid of AIM?	551	(14)
Russel L. Barsh
Europe's Role in Displacing Native Canadians	565	(20)
Giorgio Mariani
"Was Anybody More of an Indian than Karl Marx?": The `Indiani Metropolitani' and the 1977 Movement	585	(14)
Ewa Nowicka
The "Polish Movement Friends of the American Indians"	599	(10)
Christian F. Feest
Indians and Europe? Editor's Postscript	609	(20)
Index of Names	629
prepared by Sylvia Kasprycki
Margit Krpata
Christian F. Feest