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The newspaper Indian : Native American identity in the press, 1820-90 /

Coward, John M.

The newspaper Indian : Native American identity in the press, 1820-90 / John M. Coward. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999. - viii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The History of communication .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Discovery, destiny, and savagery : imagining Indians in America -- Romance and rumor : the Indian in the antebellum press -- Explaining Indian removal -- The Rocky Mountain news and the scandal of Sand Creek -- The war in words : reporting the Fetterman fight -- The making of an Indian villain : Sitting Bull in war and peace -- Indian reformers and the idealized indian.

025202432X (cloth : alk. paper) 025206738X (pbk. : alk. paper)

98019663


Indians--Press coverage--United States.
Journalism--History--United States--19th century.

PN4888.I52 / C68 1999

070.4/4997

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