1927 - Paleface Propaganda history against Indians
1927, Dec 2 The Waco News Tribune |
While Mayor Thompson is about his task of making American history more American, he should "see that some errors regarding the original American, the Indian, should be rectified" a delegation of Indians advised him...
The Indians, virtually all of whom live in Chicago, represented the Grand Council of American Indians. All were in full regalia. Thompson with U.J. Herrmann, delegated by the Mayor to discover British propaganda in the city libraries, received them in the Mayor's suite at a downtown hotel.
In "Paleface" propaganda history against Indians, focus is on battles between whites and Indians, especially when whites suffered heavy losses, but massacres such as Wounded Knee were toned down or ignored. And scalping did not originate as an Indian practice. It was learned from the early white settlers for proof of enemy kills.
1927, Dec 2 The Guardian |