Authors: Colin G. Calloway (Editor), Gerd Gmunden (Editor), Susanne Zantop
ISBN-13: 9780803264205, ISBN-10: 0803264208
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
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 Gemünden 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, 17701870, Susanne Zantop was a professor of German and comparative literature at Dartmouth College.
For over three hundred years, the Indian peoples of North America have attracted the interest of diverse segments of German societymissionaries, 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.
“The volume’s contributions. . . . offer expert as well as non-expert readers rewarding insights and information. Especially refreshing are the close-up studies of colonial German immigrants and their relationship to other settlers and to Native American groups.”
—Harry Liebersohn, American Historial Review
List of Illustrations | ||
Editors' Acknowledgments | ||
Close Encounters: Deutsche and Indianer | 3 | |
Compatriots | 15 | |
Germany's Indians in a European Perspective | 25 | |
Historical Encounters across Five Centuries | 47 | |
American Indians and Moravians in Southern New England | 83 | |
"The Complexion of My Country": The German as "Other" in Colonial Pennsylvania | 97 | |
German Immigrants and Intermarriage with American Indians in the Pacific Northwest | 121 | |
A Nineteenth-Century Ojibwa Conquers Germany | 141 | |
German Indianthusiasm: A Socially Constructed German National(ist) Myth | 167 | |
Nineteenth-Century German Representations of Indians from Experience | 185 | |
Indians Playing, Indians Praying: Native Americans in Wild West Shows and Catholic Missions | 195 | |
Germans Playing Indian | 213 | |
Indian Impersonation as Historical Surrogation | 217 | |
Between Karl May and Karl Marx: The DEFA Indianerfilme | 243 | |
"Stranger and Stranger": The (German) Other in Canadian Indigenous Texts | 259 | |
An Introduction to Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife | 281 | |
"Blitzkuchen": An Excerpt from The Antelope Wife | 287 | |
Bibliography | 295 | |
List of Contributors | 331 | |
Index | 335 |