Totem Poles, Teepees, and Token Traditions: 'Playing Indian' at Ontario Summer Camps, 1920–1955
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sharon Wall
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 3, 2005, pp. 513-544
Description
"Explores this curious cultural phenomenon and concludes that the camp's Indian programming had little to do with honouring or even understanding Aboriginal peoples and more to do with seeking a balm for the non-Native experience of modernity."