By Gretchen M. Bataille, David Mayer Gradwohl, Charles L. P. Silet
Two new essays--one discussing the problems surrounding the reburial of disinterred American Indian skeletal is still and the repatriation of bones and cultural items, the opposite facing the local humans from whom the nation of Iowa took its name--not in basic terms convey the continued American Indian presence in Iowa but additionally expand the bridge for non-Indian humans to higher comprehend these Iowans who characterize the state's first nations.
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For a lengthy and comprehensive discussion of these images see Charles I. P. Silci and Gretchen M. ' ’ I he Quarterly Review o f Film Studies 2(Feb. 1977):56-74. For a comprehensive annotated checklist of books and articles on Indians in the film, see Gretchen M. Bataille and Charles L. P. ” The Journal o f Popular Film 5(1976):171-82. The Unknown Past L. EDWARD PURCELL Problems relating to the interpretation of nineteenth and twentieth century Indians in Iowa are dealt with in the following chapter.
American histories have made shockingly little effort to understand the life, the societies, the cultures, the thinking, and the feeling o f the Indians, and disastrously little effort to understand how all these affected white men and their societies. — BERNARD DEVOTO introduction to Strange Empire BY JOSEPH K. HOWARD (1952) Sources for History Education and the Indians of Iowa INDIAN history is one of Iowa’s neglected stepchildren. This is un fortunate, since the tale of Iowa's Indian people is interesting, in structive, and often inspiring.
Almost all material intended for a popular audience displays this fault. In the case of the Iowa school texts, the better books list the tribes, with an occasional attempt to separate them on the basis of language groups such as Algonquian or Siouan. 2 Often, school texts attempt a romantic or colorful description of Indians in general. This is evidently thought to be more interesting than clear explanation. In most instances this generalized description rein forces factual errors or cultural stereotypes.