Archive
Here I post clippings and photographs (some of them extremely rare) related to the representation of Native American cultures in Europe.
MoskVed-1787-20-5.pdf (size 5.5 MB). This is one of the earliest mentions of American Indians in Russian press. Published in 1787 in “Moskovskie Vedomosti,” one of the only two newspapers issued in Catherine the Great’s Russian Empire, this article deals with the participation of native tribes in the American Revolutionary War. “Moskovskie Vedomosti” was a brainchild of one of the pioneers of Russian Enlightenment, Nikolai Novikov (1744-1718).
Izvestiia.Khakasy.pdf (size 14.5 MB). Two clippings from the Soviet newspaper “Izvestiia” reporting on the Moscow demonstration of the representatives of the Khakass nation in support of Leonard Peltier that took place during the Gorbachev-Reagan talks in 1987.
Poland.Polityka.2006-30-07.29.pdf (size 8.3 MB). A recent article from a Polish magazine on Indianists in Poland.
Poland.NewsweekPolska.09.30.2001.pdf (size 576 KB).
Poland.Nowosci-2000.pdf (size 284 KB).
Poland.SatOkh.DziennikBaltycki-1952.pdf (size 196 KB). The first mention of Stanislaw Suplatovich in Polish press.
Poland.SatOkh.DziennikBaltycki-no.11.pdf (size 172 KB).
Poland.SatOkh.DziennikBaltycki-1988.pdf (size 624 KB).
Poland.SatOkh.Miliarder.pdf (size 696 KB). A front page image of Sat-Okh.
Poland.SatOkh.Rzeczpospolita-1994.pdf (size 824 KB).
Poland.SatOkh.Stadnichenko.LiteraturnaUkraina-1979.pdf (size 460 KB).
Poland.SatOkh.WieczorWybrzeza-1997.pdf (size 2.9 MB). An article disclosing Sat-Okh’s non-Indian roots.
Poland.SatOkh.SovetskaiaRossia-05.1987.pdf (size 468 KB). An article from a major Russian-Soviet newspaper about Sat-Okh.
Poland.SatOkh.GazetaMalborska.05.13.1999.pdf (size 204 KB).
Poland.SatOkh.TygodnikTucholski.05.04.2001.pdf (size 312 KB).
Lithuania.Moksleivis.07-08.1990.pdf (size 392KB). The front page image of Lithuanian Indianists.
Germany.BostonGlobe.11.12.2004.pdf (size 376 KB). An article on the visit of two photographers to an Indian Week camp in Germany. They later published a collection of photos separately.
Germany.NYT.06.21.2003.pdf (size 296 KB). Another article about the two photographers.
Germany.NYT.04.02.1996.pdf (size 480 KB). A general article about “Indians” in Roderau, Germany.
Russia.GreyOwl.Prishvin.Ziman.LiteraturnaiaGazeta.09.23.1950.pdf (size 396 KB). A critical reaction to Grey Owl from a Marxist perspective.
Russia.Native Americans.Kurier.03.2004.pdf (size 2.1 MB). An extensive article on contemporary Native Americans.
Russia.Longfellow.Haiawatha.Listunova.KomsomolskaiaPravda.02.27.1982.pdf (size 416 KB). A praise to the continuing significance of Longfellow’s Hiawatha.
Russia.SatOkh.Rasulova.Junost.pdf (size 404 KB).
Ukraine.Stadnichenko.LiteraturnaUkraina-1979.pdf (size 276 KB). An essay about Stadnichenko.
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