Seeing red : a history of Natives in Canadian newspapers / Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Mark Cronlund, 1960-

Contributor:

Robertson, Carmen L., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians--Press coverage--Canada--History.

Indians.

Indians in mass media--History.

Indians in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg [Man.] : University of Manitoba Press, c2011

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The authors (professors of history and art history at the U. of Regina, Canada) conduct a discourse analysis of how Canada's indigenous peoples have been portrayed in Canadian newspapers from the sale of Hudson's Bay Company lands to Canada in 1869 through to 2009, arguing that the newspapers have been and continue to be steered by the colonial imagery with respect to Canada's indigenous. They support this argument through examinations of how indigenous Canadians were represented in newspaper accounts of colonial land sales, the resistance struggles of Metis leader Louis Riel, the 1913 death of Canadian Native poet Pauline Johnson, native contributions to World War II, a 1974 aboriginal protest occupation of a park in the Ontario town of Kenora, and Bill C-31 of 1985 (which amended the Indian Act by barring certain discriminatory practices).

Contents:

This land is mine : The Rupert's Land purchase, 1869

Fifty-six words : Treaty 3, 1873

"Our little war" : The North-west Rebellion, 1885

The golden rule : The Klondike Gold Rush, 1898-1905

Poet, princess, possession : Remembering Pauline Johnson, 1913

Disrobing Grey Owl : The death of Archie Belaney, 1938

"Potential Indian citizens?" : Aboriginal people after World War II, 1948

Cardboard characters : The White Paper, 1969

Bended Elbow news : The Ancinabe Park Standoff, 1974

Indian princess/Indian "Squaw" : Bill C-31, 1985

Letters from the edges : The Oka Crisis, 1990

Back to the future : A Prairie centennial, 1905-2005

Conclusion : Return of the native.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-351) and index.

ISBN:

9786613582195

9781280486968

1280486961

9780887554063

0887554067

OCLC:

794364910