Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction Before-and-After: Vanishing and Visibility in Native American Images 1 Part I Indigenous Presence in the Silent Western 1 Reframing the Western Imaginary: James Young Deer, Lillian St. Cyr, and the “Squaw Man” Indian Dramas 43 2 “Strictly American Cinemas”: Social Protest in The Vanishing American, Redskin, and Ramona 101 Part II Documenting Midcentury Images 3 “As If I Were Lost and Finally Found”: Repatriation and Visual Continuity in Imagining Indians and 179 The Return of Navajo Boy Part III Independent Native Features 4 Imagining the Reservation in House Made of Dawn and Billy Jack 219 5 “Indians Watching Indians on TV”: Native Spectatorship and the Politics of Recognition in Skins and Smoke Signals 265 Coda Persistent Vision 297 viii / Contents Notes 305 Works Cited 347 Index 379 ...