{"title":"Performance and Performers","authors":"C. Calloway","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780197547656.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780197547656.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Indian chiefs in the city attracted curiosity and crowds. They were often “onstage,” expected to comport themselves in certain ways, as both “wild Indians” and dignified diplomats. Some were invited to and participated in the ceremonial meetings of the Tammany Society; others not only attended the theater and the circus but sometimes participated in the shows, with displays of Native dances or horsemanship. Like later performers in the Wild West shows, they “played Indian” for white audiences, but they did so for their own purposes, mastering the arts of diplomatic theater and proclaiming their tribal identity in centers of colonial power.","PeriodicalId":409709,"journal":{"name":"The Chiefs Now in This City","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129606904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"C. Calloway","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197547656.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547656.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"INDIAN PEOPLE INVITED AND ESCORTED into town, welcomed by the city fathers, and cheered by enthusiastic crowds; lodging in the finest hotels, wined and dined at formal dinners, and dropping by for breakfast in private homes; touring the city, seeing the sights, strolling in the park, sitting in church, and watching performances at the theater and circus; cared for by physicians, and, if they died, being carried to city burial grounds in funeral corteges of hundreds of people; traveling by stagecoach at government expense and staggering home under the weight of gifts. . . . Contrary to assumptions that Indians were nowhere to be seen in the cities of early America, and that they had retreated as Euro-American settlements advanced, it might seem that citizens could barely walk the streets without bumping into visiting tribal delegates who went about an endless round of social engagements, observing and participating in urban life....","PeriodicalId":409709,"journal":{"name":"The Chiefs Now in This City","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122570227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Going Home","authors":"C. Calloway","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197547656.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547656.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter completes Indian delegates’ journeys to colonial capitals by considering the return leg of their travels and their reentry into their home communities. Athough city chiefs often returned laden with gifts and with temporarily enhanced prestige, the chapter points out ways in which their experiences in traveling to the centers of colonial power could negatively affect their standing at home. It profiles several of the prominent figures in the book to show that increasing influence with the colonial government, and especially the national government, often came at the cost of decreasing respect at home, especially when returning chiefs acted as advocates of the U.S. “civilization program” in their personal lives.","PeriodicalId":409709,"journal":{"name":"The Chiefs Now in This City","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130382938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}