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By insisting that real Indians were disappearing or had already vanished, the Improved Order was able to narrate and perform a fraternal Indian history without having to account for the actions of real Indian people. This history was possible only when Indian removal policy was widespread and
244:" and the idea that the white man can then be the true inheritor and preserver of authentic "Indianness", with the only "authentic" Indians being dead and in the past. A recurring trope in this pattern is "the Indian 'Death Speech'", an example he cites is from 218:, Deloria argues that white Americans have used an idealized image of the anachronistic Indian of historical times, and the practice of "playing Indian" to create their own national identity; both identifying with Indians as liberated, patriotic 163:
ideas and imagery of "Indians" and "Indianness" (the "Playing Indian" of the title), in a quest for National identity in particular, while also denigrating, dismissing, and making invisible real, contemporary Indian people.
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In their dying moments, these Indian figures offered up their lands, their blessings, their traditions, and their republican history to those who were, in real life, violent conquering interlopers.
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inhabitants in touch with nature, while simultaneously denigrating real, contemporary Native American people as ignorant, savage
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were named after these literary figures, created by colonists to verbalize the wishes of the colonists,
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ideas of Indian traditions, images, spiritual ceremonies, and clothing, citing examples such as the
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Deloria writes that, "not coincidentally" the first "lodges" of groups like
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Stereotypes of Indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States
233:'me' underneath." The book is a reworking of Deloria's 1994 226:, incapable or unworthy of preserving their own cultures. 240:
He explores the white American dual fascination with "the
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Index

Vanishing Indian

Philip J. Deloria
Stereotypes of Native Americans
Cultural appropriation
Yale University Press
ISBN
978-0300080674

Philip J. Deloria
Native American peoples
stereotypical
stereotypical
Indian princess
Boston Tea Party
Improved Order of Red Men
Tammany Hall
Scouting
Order of the Arrow
hippies
New Agers
D. H. Lawrence
Studies in Classic American Literature
New World
others
Yale
vanishing Indian
James Fenimore Cooper
Order of the Red Men
David Roediger

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