Native Americans in the News. Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press

Native Americans in the News. Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press. By Mary Ann Weston. Greenwood Press. 1996. x, 188 pp. Index. Hardcover ISBN 0313-29049-4 $55.00.

This pioneering monograph by journalism historian Mary Ann Weston explores the ways in which misleading images of Native Americans have been perpetuated and reinforced by the practices, traditions and forms of journalism. Weston examines several pivotal moments-the 1920s debate over assimilation or cultural pluralism, New Deal Indian policy, Native American participation in World War II, the termination program of the 1950s, the militancy of...