Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections

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Colin Gordon Calloway, Gerd Gem_nden, Susanne Zantop
U of Nebraska Press - 351 Seiten
For over three hundred years, the Indian peoples of North America have attracted the interest of diverse segments of German society?missionaries, writers, playwrights, anthropologists, filmmakers, hobbyists and enthusiasts, and even royalty. Today, German scholars continue to be drawn to Indians, as is the German public: tour groups from Germany frequent Plains reservations in the summer, and so-called Indianerclubs, where participants dress up in "authentic" Indian costume, are common. In this fascinating volume, scholars and writers illuminate the longstanding connection between Germans and the Indians.

From a range of disciplines and occupations, the contributors probe the historical and cultural roots of the interactions between Germans and Indians and examine how such encounters have been represented in different media over the centuries. Particularly important are reflections and insights by modern Native American writers on this relationship. Of special concern is why such a connection has endured. As the contributors make clear, the encounters between Germans and Indians were also imagined, sometimes as fantasy, sometimes as projection, both resonating deeply with the cultural sensibilities and changing historical circumstances of Germans over the years.

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Deutsche and lndianer
7
Compatriots
19
Germanys Indians in a European Perspective
29
Historical Encounters across Five Centuries
51
American Indians and Moravians in Southern New England
87
The German as Other in Colonial Pennsylvania
101
with American Indians in the Pacific Northwest
125
A NineteenthCentury Ojibwa Conquers Germany
145
Germans Playing Indian
217
Indian Impersonation as Historical Surrogation
221
The defa Indianerfdme
247
The German Other in Canadian Indigenous Texts
263
An Introduction to Louise Erdrichs The Antelope Wife
285
An Excerpt from The Antelope Wife
291
Bibliography
299
Contributors
335

A Socially Constructed German Nationalist Myth
171
Representations of Indians from Experience
189
Native Americans in Wild West Shows and Catholic Missions
199

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Colin G. Calloway is chair of Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America and The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Gerd Gem_nden is a professor of German and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination. The author of Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770?1870, Susanne Zantop was a professor of German and comparative literature at Dartmouth College.

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