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The Newspaper Indian : Native American Identity in the Press, 1830-90 / John M. Coward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coward, John M., author.
- Series:
- History of communication.
- The history of communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American newspapers.
- Journalism.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations ;
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Seven essays discuss the bad press that Native American's received in newspapers during the nineteenth century and how cultural and territorial conflicts between whites and Indians were often complicated by years of mistrust and inflammatory reports.
- Contents:
- Indians, ideology, and the press
- Discovery, destiny, and savagery: imagining Indians in America
- Romance and rumor: the Indian in the antebellum press
- Explaining Indian removal
- The Daily Rocky Mountain news and the scandal of Sand Creek
- The war in words: reporting the Fetterman fight
- The making of an Indian villain: Sitting Bull in war and peace
- Indian reformers and the idealized indian
- The newspaper Indian.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-252-04850-4
- OCLC:
- 1534205423
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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