{"id":4223,"date":"2008-11-18T01:02:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T06:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:47:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:47:30","slug":"anachronism-and-american-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/18\/anachronism-and-american-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Anachronism and American Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2008\/11\/27\/anachronism-and-american-indians\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racialicious<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In many places in the midwest the American Indian is very present, but in other places in the U.S., like in California, Disney&#8217;s <em>Pocahontas<\/em> is as close as we get to &#8220;Indians.&#8221;\u00a0 The idea that American Indians are gone comes, in part, from the ubiquitous representation of them with feathers, buckskins, and moccasins. These anachronisms are everywhere (see, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/09\/images-of-native-americans\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/22\/some-native-american-sports-mascots\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/21\/howe-nissan-dealership-billboard-using-stereotypical-indian-image\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/15\/crying-indian-anti-litter-psa-from-1970s\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/01\/the-neutral-and-the-marked-a-primer-for-your-kids\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>American Indians are as modern as the rest of us, why are representations of American Indians, as they live today, so unusual?\u00a0 And what effect might that have on the psyche of American Indian people?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/fraudulent.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4222  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/fraudulent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/postsecret.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/sunday-secrets_16.html\" target=\"_blank\">PostSecret<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NEW!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> One of the commenters at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2008\/11\/27\/anachronism-and-american-indians\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racialicious<\/a> pointed us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecorncomics.com\/stharm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a cartoon<\/a> that illustrates how anachronistic images of American Indians may shape our ideas of what they are like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/dontlook.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4684  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/dontlook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross posted at Racialicious. In many places in the midwest the American Indian is very present, but in other places in the U.S., like in California, Disney&#8217;s Pocahontas is as close as we get to &#8220;Indians.&#8221;\u00a0 The idea that American Indians are gone comes, in part, from the ubiquitous representation of them with feathers, buckskins, [&hellip;]<\/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":[253,285,1758,37],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","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=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29893,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions\/29893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}