Newspaper Indian

John M. Coward is an associate professor of communication at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press.

"Greeley's contempt for Indian people as lazy, violent, unprogressive, and unworthy of justice mirrored a larger national view that had flourished since the first captivity narratives had been published in Puritan New England. . . . Coward's book emerges as the most comprehensive and authoritative account of journalistic treatment of American Indians in the nineteenth century."--Michael L. Tate, South Dakota History "Coward's outstanding study places Indian stereotyping within a broader historical context and demonstrates the continuity of popular misconceptions. . . . Extremely well written, researched, and organized, this monograph makes a major contribution to nineteenth-century Native American historiography and provides unique insights into the press's role in molding the popular imagination."--Thomas A. Britten, The Historian "Ideal for an undergraduate class since it is written in an informed and up-to-date, but very accessible style. . . . An engaging read."--Gillian Poulter, Left History "A strong contribution to research engaging the complexities resulting from the nineteenth-century newspaper accounts of American Indians. . . . A lucid analysis of why perceptions of American Indians by the American public and the American press even to this day are biased, unbalanced, and unclear."--John Sanchez, Rhetoric and Public Affairs "Every scholar who uses newspaper sources in the study of nineteenth-century Indian affairs would do well to read it carefully."--Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., New Mexico Historical Review