Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past

By Leah Dilworth

Book Overview

In Imagining Indians in the Southwest, Leah Dilworth examines the creation and enduring potency of the early twentieth-century myth of the primitive Indian. She demonstrates how visions of Indians --... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560988347
• ISBN13: 9781560988342
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

An important contribution to understanding Fred Harvey

Leah Dilworth's book is one that anyone with an interest in the Southwest and its history should read. Through a close examination of the texts (postcards, artwork, journals, magazine articles and the like) published during the 1880-1950 era, she provides new and thought-provoking insights into the treatment of native Americans and Hispanics in the emerging Southwest. The book also contains a careful study of the role of the Fred Harvey Company in opening the Navajo, Hopi and other peoples to trade and tourism which is brilliant. A book I read recently about Harvey stated that "its buyers never consciously took advantage of the Indians." To find out exactly how ridiculous that statement really is, read this book!