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Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides

Autor Paul Hillmer, Ryan Bean
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 aug 2024
In 1926, Harold Keltner, a YMCA Boys Work secretary from St. Louis, and Joe Friday, a member of the Canadian Ojibwe First Peoples, channeled white middle-class fascination with Native Americans into what became the Y-Indian Guides youth pro­gram, engaging over a half million participants across the nation at the height of its 77-year history. Intended to soften the stereo­typical stern father, the program traced a complicated thread of American history, touching upon themes of family, race, class, and privilege.

The Y-Indian Guides was a father-son (and later parent-child) program that encouraged real and enduring bonds through play and an authentic appreciation of family. While “playing Indian” seemed harmless to most participants during the pro­gram’s heyday, Paul Hillmer and Ryan Bean demonstrate the problematic nature of its methods. In the process of seeking to admire and emulate Indigenous Peoples, Y-Indian Guide participants often misrepresented American Indians and reinforced harmful ste­reotypes. Ultimately, this history demonstrates many ways in which American culture undermines and harms its Indigenous communities.

 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826223210
ISBN-10: 0826223214
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: 39 B&W photos, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: University of Missouri Press
Colecția University of Missouri

Recenzii

“The narrative attends to an important chapter in our (western) histories of masculinity, colonialism, fatherhood/boyhood, and Indigeneity.”—Jason Edward Black, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, coauthor of Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports
 
“Hillmer and Bean’s sophisticated historical analysis of YMCA Indian Guides wrestles with the central problematic of progressive multiculturalism in a settler colonial nation: the desire to champion and recreate Indigenous culture while evading both the lived reality of Indigenous people as well as a formal reckoning with the white history of genocidal violence. Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides illustrates how white people symbolically and materially colonized Indigenous people and traditions to strengthen white familial bonds at the cost of American Indian history and dignity. The book brings new and important insights on the use of Indigenous caricature and cultural appropriation in the white colonial imaginary.”—Casey Ryan Kelly, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, author of Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood
"Cultural appropriation has been an ever-present characteristic of settler colonialism in North America. In their examination of the Y-Indian Guides program, Paul Hillmer and Ryan Bean demonstrate how the program, over its 77 years of existence, appropriated Indigenous experiences and imagery in the service of strengthening family, building community, and, much more problematically, honoring Indigenous peoples and cultures. This book joins a growing and important literature examining how North American institutions have affected and been affected by settler colonialism."—Jon Weier, George Brown College, coeditor of ActiveHistory.ca

Notă biografică

Paul Hillmer is Professor Emeritus of History at Concordia University-St. Paul. He is the author of A People’s History of the Hmong.
 
Ryan Bean is the YMCA Archives Program Director for the Kautz Family YMCA Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries.