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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John M. Coward. The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820–90. (The History of Communication.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1999. Pp. viii, 244. Cloth $39.95, paper $18.95.

Historians have long seen the need for a careful examination of the contemporary media in their efforts to understand the relative truth or falsity of representations of historical events. In this engaging book, John M. Coward brings to our attention how the predilections of those who tendered the news and the changing processes of news gathering reflected, and in most cases supported, the ideological preoccupations of many Euro-Americans about Native Americans during the nineteenth century. News reports from the west, which were filtered through editors and newspaper owners, often provided evidence that Indian peoples needed to be removed from the path of white civilization. As Coward explains, his book elucidates the process by which "the press turned actual Native Americans into ideologically useful Indians" and seeks "to identify and critique the political, economic, social, and cultural forces that produced Indian news, determined its structure, and defined its popular understandings" (p. 12). . . .

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