Inappropriation (eBook)

The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides

Hillmer Paul Hillmer, Bean Ryan Bean (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
248 Seiten
University of Missouri Press (Verlag)
978-0-8262-7484-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 pro-gram, engaging over a half million participants across the nation at the height of its 77-year history. Intended to soften the stereo-typical 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 pro gram 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 ste reotypes. Ultimately, this history demonstrates many ways in which American culture undermines and harms its Indigenous communities. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8262-7484-6 / 0826274846
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-7484-7 / 9780826274847