A web-publication development based on my research with Sylvia Kunze at UCLA, analyzing cartoons in Native American publications. This resulted in two presentations. The first in 1974, at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Association in Portland, Oregon, entitled, ‘You Didn’t Really Want to Go Anywhere, Did You, Chief?’ The 2nd in 1989, at the annual Popular Culture Ass./American Culture Association meeting in St. Louis on Socio-Political Implications of Cartoons from American Indian Publications.
This research was done in cooperation with The UCLA American Indian Studies Center (UCLA AISC). The library of the UCLA AISC, as well as the Library of Congress, have indicated their interest in working on updating the material. Updates will demonstrate what has changed since the original research in the early 1970s. Further research will refer not only to socio-psychological implications but also to the nature of American Indian publications.
For anyone interested in studying Native American cartoons, this site includes galleries with all 340 cartoons in the collection. Every cartoon includes annotations. This online web project is for research only. Do not copy the material in any form without the permission of the respective artist(s) and/or the publisher(s).
All cartoons are organized by topic, reflecting the feelings, views, and concerns expressed by the cartoonists and editors of the Native American publications.
American Indian Cartoons:
- Alcatraz
- Anthropologists
- BIA – American/Canadian Government
- Crooked Dealings – Exploitations
- Education
- Films
- Indians – Blacks – Hispanics
- Misc. Cartoons
- Pilgrims – Columbus – Moon Landing
- Religion
- Self Reflection
- Tourist
- Treaties – Forked Tongue
- Tribal Strife and the D.N.A.
- Urban Indians
- White Man’s Actions – Reversal
- White Man’s Justice – Indian Rights
- White Man’s Way – Stereotyping/Hypocrisy
- Yankee Go Home