Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Rule of Individuality 1
6. PART ONE Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals
7. 1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers 31
8. Digesting ‘‘Indians’’: Assimilation as Individualizing 41
9. Possessive and Domestic Individualizing: Treason to the Tribe 49
10. Complexity, Critical Thinking, and Performance at Carlisle 66
11. Pratt’s Carlisle (1879–1904): Class, Race, Warfare 78
12. Carlisle, Consumer Culture, and Loaded Cultural Relativism (1904–1918) 85
13. Education for What? 93
14. 2 The School of Savagery: ‘‘Indian’’ Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle 97
15. Literary Indianizing: Discourses of Native Cultural Subjectivity 98
16. Parodying Parroting: Faking Individual and Indian 120
17. PART TWO Multicultural Modernity Incorporated
18. 3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of ‘‘Lost’’ White Individuality 135
19. Toward Therapeutic Imperialism: Garland and the Modernizing of Digestion Management 142
20. White Therapeutic Primitivism and the Indian Business: Environmental, Soulful, and Literary ‘‘Indians’’ 145
21. Giving Them the Business: ‘‘Indians’’ in the Therapeutic and Modernist Marketplace 152
22. Rhythmic Ethnomodernism: Luhan, Lawrence, Austin, and the Fantasy of Individualized Liberation in Tribal Scenes 166
23. ‘‘Indians’’ in the Bloodstream: The Politics of Lawrence’s Psychological Critique of American Individualizing 177
24. 4 Indians Inc.: Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management 185
25. Collier’s Saviourism: Radical Polemicist against Individualizing 189
26. Anti-Imperial Romanticism: Collier as Social Theorist of ‘‘Indians’’ 192
27. Imperial Self-Government: Reorganizing ‘‘Indians’’ 199
28. Detours from the Therapeutic: La Farge’s and McNickle’s Fictions 211
29. Taos, Collier, and the Multicultural Containment of Critique 220
30. Afterword: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization 229
31. Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism 253
32. Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle 257
33. Abbreviations in Notes 259
34. Notes 261
35. Index 321