Native ( Indian) portrayals?

[Borderruffian]

How civilized were the Cherokee? Well, the first Cherokee newspaper was published in 1828!

Cherokee Phoenix: The First American Indian Newspaper

www.allthingscherokee.com

It's still in business

cherokeephoenix.org

www.cherokeephoenix.org

And Sequoyah wrote the written Cherokee language which it was published in

 

[damYankee]

And Sequoyah wrote the written Cherokee language which it was published in

And it was also published in English at least it was after the paper moved to the Indian Territory AKA Oklahoma.
A rather forgotten bit of history that involved both my gg grandfather and his father was the development of the Cherokee Trail, (not to be confused with the Trail of Tears!)

Cherokee Trail – An Alternate Route to the West – Legends of America

The Cherokee Trail was an overland trail through Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana that was used from the late 1840s up to the 1890s.

www.legendsofamerica.com

 

[damYankee]

What's really great about the collection of diaries in the two books is that many of them were published in Tribal newspapers as the trailblazers were building the trail. my ancestors were with the Fayette, Ark. group.

 

[7thWisconsin]

During the post-Civil War Indian wars, it seems that the government passed out bits of artillery uniform to Shoshone scouts. I´ve seen pictures of them wearing trousers and brogans with traditional clothing, Hardee hats with artillery cord and brass and traditional clothing - that sort of thing. I always have assumed it was a way of creating a ¨field sign¨ using existing surplus uniform stock. This Cherokee recreation is a good reminder that reenacting impressions have a ¨time and place¨ boundary. It´s safe enough to say that the 2nd Cherokee may have looked like that; not safe to say all Cherokee looked like that or that all Native American soldiers looked like that. Extreme impressions get a lot of attention at reenactments. The guy with no crotch in his trousers is going to be in all the news feeds and will be quoted, whether or not he knows much about the Civil War really.

 

[TallTallMan]

@archieclement When I was eight I was Ousamequin in a Thanksgiving pageant.

 

[johan_steele]

@johan_steele Accusing other users of being fine with blackface is tasteless.

Being fine with blackface is tasteless. Pointing out that it's wrong… not so much.