{"id":20829,"date":"2011-02-12T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20829"},"modified":"2014-02-10T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:59:48","slug":"vintage-valentines-punning-on-american-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/12\/vintage-valentines-punning-on-american-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards: American Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Native Appropriations<\/a>, I found a set of vintage Valentines drawing on stereotypes of American Indians at the Vintage Valentine Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’d never squaw’k if you’d be my Valentine” (1950s or ’60s):<\/p>\n

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“I want to be the CHIEF” (1940s or ’50s):<\/p>\n

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“I’m a straightshoooter Valentine. May I be your BOW” (1930s):<\/p>\n

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“I’m hunting for you, Valentine” (1941):<\/p>\n

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“Ugh! Ugh! I’m an INDIAN GIVER. It’s time you should learn it. For I won’t give my love, unless you’ll RETURN it!” (1940s):<\/p>\n

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“Ugh! Ugh!\u00a0 Give me your heart Valentine!”:<\/p>\n

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“You heap fine Valentine AND HOW!” (1950s or ’60s):<\/p>\n

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“I’m sending this ARROW CHEIFLY to say, let me be your “beau” (1930s or ’40s):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Native Appropriations, I found a set of vintage Valentines drawing on stereotypes of American Indians at the Vintage Valentine Museum. “I’d never squaw’k if you’d be my Valentine” (1950s or ’60s): “I want to be the CHIEF” (1940s or ’50s): “I’m a straightshoooter Valentine. May I be your BOW” (1930s): “I’m hunting for you, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,283,285,1758,20063],"class_list":["post-20829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20829"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61426,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829\/revisions\/61426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}