Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides by Hillmer, Paul

Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780826222794)

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Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides by Hillmer, Paul

Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides

$35.00
Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides by Hillmer, Paul

Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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In 1926, Harold Keltner, a YMCA Boys Work secretary from St. Louis, and Joe Friday, a member of the Canadian Ojibwe First Peoples, channeled white middle-class fascination with Native Americans into what became the Y-Indian Guides youth pro­gram, engaging over a half million participants across the nation at the height of its 77-year history. Intended to soften the stereo­typical stern father, the program traced a complicated thread of American history, touching upon themes of family, race, class, and privilege.

The Y-Indian Guides was a father-son (and later parent-child) program that encouraged real and enduring bonds through play and an authentic appreciation of family. While "playing Indian" seemed harmless to most participants during the pro­gram's heyday, Paul Hillmer and Ryan Bean demonstrate the problematic nature of its methods. In the process of seeking to admire and emulate Indigenous Peoples, Y-Indian Guide participants often misrepresented American Indians and reinforced harmful ste­reotypes. Ultimately, this history demonstrates many ways in which American culture undermines and harms its Indigenous communities.



Author: Paul Hillmer, Ryan Bean
ISBN-10: 082622279X
ISBN-13: 9780826222794
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2023
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2023
By Paul Hillmer
By Paul Hillmer
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Paul Hillmer is the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and a Professor of History at Concordia University-St. Paul. His research focuses on Southeast Asia, especially among the Hmong hill tribes of Laos who became refugees and settled in America, and the history of the YMCA. He has written histories of the Cleveland and Minneapolis YMCAs, produced a History Channel-funded documentary, From Strangers to Neighbors, about Hmong settlements in the Twin Cities, and authored A People's History of the Hmong.

Ryan Bean is the Reference and Outreach Archivist for the Kautz Family YMCA Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries, a position he has held since 2009. Bean has contributed chapters to academic volumes on themes as diverse as the YMCA in China and the role of archives in undergraduate education. He has also contributed numerous articles to various YMCA publications on themes related to the history of the YMCA.

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