Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800

Contents, Figures

Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction Beyond the Buckskin 1 part i Origins and Transformations across the Nineteenth Century 25 1 From Cooper to Karl May—Recast 29 2 Accommodating Violence 69 3 Changes in the Lands 96 4 Modern Germans and Indians 127 part ii Consistencies across Twentieth-Century Ruptures 157 5 Instrumentalization across Political Regimes 163 6 Race, Character, and Masculinity before and after Hitler 199 7 Comparative Genocides 229 8 Receptions in Native America 252 Conclusions What Persists 290 Notes 297 Bibliography 339 Index 365 This page intentionally left blank Figures 1 A group of Kit Foxes announcing the beginning of the opening ceremonies at “The Week” during the summer of 2006 2 2 Charles E. Gunter and his vest near Pawnee, Oklahoma 10 3 Karl Bodmer, Horse Racing of Sioux Indians: Near Fort Pierre 46 4 Theodore Kaufmann, Westward the Star of Empire 47 5 Albert Bierstadt, The Oregon Trail 50 6 Carl Wimar, The Attack on the Emigrant Train 52 7 “Die Chippeways-Indianer im Panoptikum zu Berlin” 58 8 A group of Omaha in Berlin, advertised as Sioux 60 9 Postcard: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Germany 61 10 Advertisement: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Dresden, 1890 62 11 New Ulm promotional image 73 12 Rudolf Cronau, “Lager der Sioux-Indianer bei Fort Snelling in Minnesota” 102 13 Rudolf Cronau, “Sitting Bull” 107 14 Hagenbeck’s 1910 Oglala Troupe 131 15 Otto Dix, American Riding Act 142 16 Big Snake at Karl May’s grave 147 17 The Munich Cowboy Club hosting a gathering in 1934 148 18 Elk Eber, Custer’s Last Battle 150 19 Elk Eber in his Munich studio 151 20 Encampment of two thousand near Taucha, outside of Leipzig (1938) 158 21 Patty Frank with Hitler Youth in the Karl-May-Museum 162 22 Swastika display in the Karl-May-Museum 166 23 Sarrasani Indians at Karl May’s grave 167 24 Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich at her home in East Berlin with Dennis Banks and Vernon Bellecourt 189 25 Burning “bad books” in Munich while Buffalo Child Long Lance (Silkirtis Nichols) dances in regalia 200 26 A postwar gathering of twenty-three West German hobby clubs in the Black Forest near Freiburg in 1953 201 27 Buffalo Child Long Lance among German hobbyists 203 28 Two German hobbyists near a Mercedes 300d 206 29 Performers from the St. Johns School in Berlin 207 30 Buffalo Child Long Lance dancing at the ceremony in honor of the Munich Cowboy Club’s new clubhouse 208 31 Buffalo Child Long Lance in his prime 217 32 Denton Fast Whirlwind, 13th Trophy of the Holocaust 231 35 Arthur Amiotte, “This place reminds us of home . . .” 253 34 Two-Two’s grave 262 35 Advertisement in Berlin for Reiner Leist’s photo exhibition American Portraits 296 ...