| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film. By M. Elise Marubbio. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv, 298 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2414-8.)
In the ongoing quest to analyze the various images of women and ethnic and racial minorities in American film, scholars have sought to isolate the characters, track their portrayals over time, and draw conclusions about the significance of the images both for the affected group and for audiences. In Killing the Indian Maiden, M. Elise Marubbio has taken as her subject the portrayal of Native American women from the earliest images in 1908 to the representations we might expect in the twenty-first century.	1
The conclusions are not surprising: Native American women are seldom presented in film as substantial characters, strong in their own right, but are generally relegated to helpers or to lovers of white males, always in a secondary role. They usually die young, either by their own hand or they are murdered. The most remembered characters are beautiful and often of mixed blood. They are usually presented as sexual objects who are marginalized from white society. While they may be presented as vehicles to bring the races together, the results are usually tragic.	. . .

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