Indians The Great Photographs That Reveral North American Indian Life 1847-1929 (1973) Joanna Cohan Scherer. Condition is good.
During most of the time it took Americans to destroy the Indians, the camera looked on. Clearly, dispassionately, it observed the Americanization of tribal life and culture, a process as relentless and overwhelming as the decimation of the Indians themselves.
INDIANS contains dozens of extraordinary photographs that reveal how North American Indians appeared to white cameramen between 1847 and 1929. Today these superb pictures-from the unsurpassed National Anthropological
Archives of the Smithsonian Institution-are a rich and revealing resource. They rival the most dramatic archeological find. Like unearthed artifacts, they offer glimpses of a vanished civilization.
To the discerning, each is a shard from which a totality may be constructed, a moment from which a continuity may be inferred. Altogether they give an honest view of genuine Indians.