This companion volume to Beidler and Egge's Native Americans in the
Saturday Evening Post expands upon the fictional short stories that
mention or focus on Native Americans. Covering a period of 71 years
(1897-1969), this compilation of summaries of 265 short stories shows
how the fictional depiction of Native Americans changed chronologically
from the end of the Indian Wars to the "Native American Renaissance" of
the 1960's. The majority of these tales highlight Caucasian attitudes
toward Indians, which generally ranged from pure racial hatred at worst,
to apathy at best, placing race relations in a historical context. This
annotated bibliography provides detailed summaries of each of the
stories with specific focus on the Native American aspects. Each story
provides insights into the prevailing negative stereotypes of the time
that the authors either exploited or denied in their stories. Also,
since many of the stories share characters, settings, and themes, the
authors have provided parenthetical cross-references, in order to easily
display their interconnectedness. The book concludes with an author
index, a subject index, and an extensive tribe index containing the
various spellings used in the stories.