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3. Buckshot for Brains: Cultivating the American Indian Mind

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Cynthia-Lou Coleman
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Environmental Clashes on Native American Land
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Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The human skull became a symbol of character in the 1800s when scientists and practitioners of phrenology linked the brain to race. Social discourse at the time cultivated the Caucasian mind as sophisticated and clever, and the Indian mind as savage and stubborn, paving the way for social policies that would treat Native peoples as subhuman and setting the stage for environmental conflicts between Indians and settlers.
I argue that the study of phrenology cultivated a narrative about the American Indian Mind, which would continue through many generations, and long after phrenology was discounted as a pseudoscience. Native Americans would endure the narrative that they are savage and war-like in disposition.
Such assumptions paved the way for political decisions that relegated Indians to the category of “non-civilizable” because of the nature of their brains and justified treatment that relegated Indians to a scientifically sanctioned sub-human classification.

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Title
Buckshot for Brains: Cultivating the American Indian Mind
Author
Cynthia-Lou Coleman
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Environmental Clashes on Native American Land

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-34105-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-34106-0

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34106-0_3
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