Native Americans in Cold War Public Diplomacy
Indian Politics, American History, and the US Information Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7572812 |
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| Authors | Andrew Denson (Western Carolina University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Indian Culture and Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-6463 • E-ISSN: 0161-6463 |
| Publisher | UCLA American Indian Studies Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.17953/aicr.36.2.mh593721537j1ug3 |
| OpenAlex | W42916241 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay examines the depiction of Native Americans by the US Information Agency (USIA), the bureau charged with explaining American politics to the international public during the Cold War. In the 1950s and 1960s, the USIA broadcast the message that Americans had begun to acknowledge their nation's history of conquest and were working to redress old wrongs through an activist government. That message echoed the agency's depiction of the African American Civil Rights Movement and allowed the USIA to recognize Indian resistance to assimilation. It offered little room for tribal nationhood, however, during these early years of the modern American Indian political revival
Depiction · Diplomacy · Political science · Politics · Redress · Social science · Sociology · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Diverse Musicological Studies · Gender Studies · History of Computing Technologies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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