 | Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform Subjects: Indians of North America -- Politics and government; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life; Indians of North America- -- Government relations; Indians Treatment of -- North America -- History; Indian activists -- North America -- History; Indians; By the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild West shows, Chautauquas, civic pageants, expositions, and fairs, American Indians were most often cast as victims, noble remnants of a vanishing... Lucy Maddox is Professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs and Nabokov's Novels in English and the editor of Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline . Maddox was Editor of American Quarterly from 1994 to 2003. |
