The Imaginary Indian

A new edition of a classic North American text on the image of the Native in non-Native culture.

Daniel Francis is an historian and the author/editor of more than twenty books, including three others for Arsenal: National Dreams: Myth, Memory and Canadian History; Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror; LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award); and Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction. He is also a regular columnist in Geist magazine.

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction to the new edition Foreword by Randy Fred 1. Introduction I. TAKING THE IMAGE 2. The Vanishing Canadian 3. Writing Off the Indian 4. Red Coats and Redskins II. PRESENTING THE IMAGE 5. Performing Indians 6. Celebrity Indians and Plastic Shamans 7. Indians of Childhood III. APPROPRIATING THE IMAGE 8. Marketing the Imaginary Indian IV. IMPLEMENTING THE IMAGE 9. The Bureaucrat's Indian 10. Guns and Feathers Endnotes Photo Sources Sources Consulted Index