ABSTRACT Issues of American Indian identity and recognition are complex, and, too often, journalists fail to find effective ways of representing Native individuals and issues in the news; however, these issues are not new. This article shows the ways news media have misrepresented Native people through historical example. A comprehensive review of nineteenth-century press coverage of the Miami Nation using the lens of critical media discourse offers insight into problematic coverage of Indian issues and individuals, countering tendencies to treat all Native experience as a common, generic narrative. This tendency overlooks the unique historical experiences of different tribal nations as well as the problematic legacy that previous coverage helped to build. Perhaps most importantly, this article offers suggestions of what journalism historians can do to counter that legacy, which has limited the ability of Native individuals to speak in their own voice and exercise self-determination in the way they are represented in the press as well as in the historical record.

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伟人，野人和印度问题的终结

摘要美洲印第安人的身份和认同问题很复杂，而且记者经常找不到能够在新闻中代表土著个人和问题的有效方法。但是，这些问题并不新鲜。本文通过历史例子说明新闻媒体歪曲土著人民的方式。运用批判性媒体话语对19世纪迈阿密国家的新闻报道进行了全面回顾，从而洞悉了有关印度问题和个人的报道问题，并反驳了将所有土著经验视为共同的，通用的叙述的倾向。这种趋势忽视了不同部落国家独特的历史经验以及先前报道帮助建立的有问题的遗产。也许最重要的是