19世纪基本事实:出野性的成文明

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By Melissa Rayner

美洲原住民的权利已经在新闻颇有几分近来,特别是涉及到北美印第安人的争议。这让我思考:How were things back in our favorite century?

And what I found broke my heart, much in the same way reading The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison breaks my heart every single time (yes, normally, these blog posts are kind of hilarious, and I promise to return to hilarity next week).

我的搜索约瑟夫K.格里菲斯(原大汉)翻起了一本自传,出野性的进文明,在他讲述,甚至在dumbs下了许多冒险为平地的野人,以及他如何最终发现在他的地方据悉,文明的社会。在这里,介绍勾画出了许多经验:

大汉

是什么让我着迷的是它的受害者这种接受和延续的种族主义。就像在托妮·莫里森的代表作,大汉却偏偏相信,他和他的人是需要教化的野蛮人。引进的作者,然而,不同于看到这种困境。相反,他提出了先天与后天的永恒的问题,尽管它充满了“小于”的谈话:

大汉2

大汉,himself, delivers to expectations in his autobiography, citing the need for the Red man to catch up to the White on the evolutionary scale:

大汉-evolution

This fits in nicely with the rhetoric of the day. Just look at these other sources from 1890 (The Indian Can No Longer Live by Hunting) and 1892 (How to Bring the Indian to Citizenship, and Citizenship to the Indian):

Kingdom of Godignorant indian

然而,在他的账户,提拉证明bsolutely brilliant. First, Tahan hooked his audience by meeting their expectations and desires, then he delivered a compelling tale of adventure, and–at the last–he take his stand and tells us the real reason for his journey “out of savagery into civilization”:

大汉- adapt or perish

大汉,while remarkable, is in now way unique. Check out the resources below for more on the intersection of Native and White life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. And, if you have time, read more from Tahan’s autobiography–you’re in for a fascinating adventure, I promise!

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This is Tahan after his transformation into Joseph K. Griffis.
This is Tahan after his transformation into Joseph K. Griffis.

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7 thoughts on “19th Century Nitty-Gritty: Out of Savagery into Civilization”

      • 我偶然发现,而研究非常不同的主题,并在英国皇家植物园,英国国家档案馆实际文件的工作。有这么多的事情被忽视,而历史学家也可以很政治和片面。
        I would love to welcome you with one of these posts, can be reposted if allowed to my site, based on the Voltaire saying; “History is the commonly agreed upon lie.” especially in regards to India, I have never had a guest address India from any POV.

          • I looked for World’s Fair Indian Exhibition but did not see link on recent posts. I have visited Kew a lot personally as the files I worked with were so obscure. I still source them and get documents from them, as many open on a monthly basis. Many extraordinary documents about the American Revolution are housed there as we were a colony. Their on-line resources get better all the time, they are FAB.
            正如我一直住在不同的国家我有对历史事件的不同意见的观点,一个县的英雄的自由战士是另一个人的恐怖和敌人。188金宝搏北京赛车请张贴链接到文章,或者你可以用它标记我在FB。伟大的工作梅丽莎。

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