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"The Red Man's Greeting" Production and Technology
12022-12-01T11:40:57-08:00sarah nisenson7cb5d2c1682fbd145e76716f3924f03bf25c616a4169613structured_gallery2022-12-07T06:19:35-08:00sarah nisenson7cb5d2c1682fbd145e76716f3924f03bf25c616aOn this page, I discuss the paratextual materials included with the birch bark text "The Red Man's Greeting" for their sociocultural implications as authenticating documents. I also discuss the technological and ecological considerations of printing upon birch bark.
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1media/rmg by the author_thumb.jpeg2022-12-02T12:58:16-08:00sarah nisenson7cb5d2c1682fbd145e76716f3924f03bf25c616a"The Red Man's Greeting" "By the Author"3Printing on birch bark is a technical challenge, since it had the potential to damage the printing press. Despite this potential damage to the printing press, hundreds of these booklets were produced for the Chicago World’s Fair with an awareness that Pokagon’s white settler audience was enamored with Indigenous birch bark objects at this time (Berliner). Perhaps more overt evidence of Pokagon’s catering to his audience is his departure from the traditional scroll format of Algonquian writing to a booklet. Berliner explains that “this choice may have been made partly because it was easier to print multiple small pages than a long scroll” but notes that “additionally, the booklet format would have been more widely recognizable to his readers as a text” (82). Despite the way that the introductory materials “By the Author” connects this booklet to “untold generations… [for whom] this most remarkable tree with manifold bark used by us instead of paper” Pokagon actually departs from a more traditional manifestation of birch bark writing to make his product more legible as a piece of written text for his white audience. Although the materiality of the birch bark booklet strays from more traditional formats of birch bark scrolls, Pokagon uses the technology of birch bark and the printing press to make his claim on temporal continuity legible to his white audience. What he potentially compromises in form is recapitulated in content: the disappearance of his people, the ecological violence of colonialism, and transformation as a method of endurance in the wake of colonialism.media/rmg by the author.jpegplain2022-12-02T14:10:00-08:00Lauren Johnson98dac03e7c9c1ad41e1c0a8583704e55802f98ba
1media/brief history this one_thumb.jpg2022-12-02T12:57:31-08:00sarah nisenson7cb5d2c1682fbd145e76716f3924f03bf25c616a"Brief History of Simon Pokagon"2media/brief history this one.jpgplain2022-12-02T13:29:19-08:0041.899875,-87.6311805555562022101814305420221018143054Lauren Johnson98dac03e7c9c1ad41e1c0a8583704e55802f98ba
1media/pokagon portrait this one_thumb.jpg2022-12-02T12:57:04-08:00sarah nisenson7cb5d2c1682fbd145e76716f3924f03bf25c616apokagon portrait1media/pokagon portrait this one.jpgplain2022-12-02T12:57:04-08:0041.899808333333,-87.6310972222222022101815074320221018150743Lauren Johnson98dac03e7c9c1ad41e1c0a8583704e55802f98ba
1media/mississippi river.jpegmedia/mississippi river.jpeg2022-11-30T16:35:18-08:00sarah nisenson7cb5d2c1682fbd145e76716f3924f03bf25c616aWhat Does Water Do For Indigenous Peoples of the Great Lakes Region?sarah nisenson36Featuring Heid E. Erdrich, Simon Pokagon, Black Hawk, and Simon Kofe by Sarah Nisensonimage_header2022-12-07T14:35:53-08:00sarah nisenson7cb5d2c1682fbd145e76716f3924f03bf25c616a
