Picturing Indian Territory
Title | Picturing Indian Territory PDF eBook |
Author | B. Byron Price |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2016-10-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0806156937 |
Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as “Indian Territory” was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundaries, and transformed by historical events that were colorful, dramatic, and often tragic. Beyond its borders, most Americans visualized the area through the pictures produced by non-Native travelers, artists, and reporters—all with differing degrees of accuracy, vision, and skill. The images in Picturing Indian Territory, and the eponymous exhibit it accompanies, conjure a wildly varied vision of Indian Territory’s past. Spanning nearly nine decades, these artworks range from the scientific illustrations found in English naturalist Thomas Nuttall’s journal to the paintings of Frederic Remington, Henry Farny, and Charles Schreyvogel. The volume’s three essays situate these works within the historical narratives of westward expansion, the creation of an “Indian Territory” separate from the rest of the United States, and Oklahoma’s eventual statehood in 1907. James Peck focuses on artists who produced images of Native Americans living in this vast region during the pre–Civil War era. In his essay, B. Byron Price picks up the story at the advent of the Civil War and examines newspaper and magazine reports as well as the accounts of government functionaries and artist-travelers drawn to the region by the rapidly changing fortunes of the area’s traditional Indian cultures in the wake of non-Indian settlement. Mark Andrew White then looks at the art and illustration resulting from the unrelenting efforts of outsiders who settled Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the decades before statehood. Some of the artworks featured in this volume have never before been displayed; some were produced by more than one artist; others are anonymous. Many were completed by illustrators on-site, as the events they depicted unfolded, while other artists relied on written accounts and vivid imaginations. Whatever their origin, these depictions of the people, places, and events of “Indian Country” defined the region for contemporary American and European audiences. Today they provide a rich visual record of a key era of western and Oklahoma history—and of the ways that art has defined this important cultural crossroads.
This Land Is My Land
Title | This Land Is My Land PDF eBook |
Author | George Littlechild |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Pages | |
Release | 2003-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780613613903 |
For use in schools and libraries only. Using text and his own paintings, the author describes the experiences of Indians of North America in general as well as his experiences growing up as a Plains Cree Indian in Canada.
Picturing Indians
Title | Picturing Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Liza Black |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2022-12-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 149623264X |
Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post–World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of “Indianness.”
The North American Indian
Title | The North American Indian PDF eBook |
Author | Edward S. Curtis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
Protecting Our People
Title | Protecting Our People PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Chickasaw Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-10-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781935684787 |
Indian Territory
Title | Indian Territory PDF eBook |
Author | William S. Prettyman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Photographs of the Territory about the time of the great land runs, with text by R. E. Cunningham.
The North American Indians in Early Photographs
Title | The North American Indians in Early Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Richardson Fleming |
Publisher | New York : Dorset Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
The 300 magnificent photographs in this book, taken from the collection at the Smithsonian Institution, offer a unique record of the Indians of North America.