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Inuit Entertainers in the United States: From the Chicago World's Fair through the Birth of Hollywood
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Inuit Entertainers is a profusely illustrated history of Inuit involvement in American mass entertainment from 1892 to 1922. It documents performances at eleven world's fairs and expositions, at dime museums, with Barnum & Bailey's Circus, at Coney Island, and in the film industry throughout the first decade of the Hollywood studios. At the center of the story are two extraordinary women. Esther Eneutseak led a group of Labrador Inuit from the Paris World's Fair to Hollywood. Her daughter Columbia, a World's Fair baby born at Chicago in 1893, wrote and starred in the first Hollywood film with a credited Inuit cast.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #98927 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-18
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 217 pages
Editorial Reviews
Arctic Book Review, Fall 2006
Anyone interested in the history of Inuit on display in the United States ... will find Zwick's book invaluable.
CM (Manitoba Library Association), December 22, 2006
It is a fascinating story.
From the Back Cover
Twelve Inuit families from Labrador were brought to the United States in October 1892 to perform in an Eskimo Village at the Chicago World's Fair. Before the exposition officially opened, they produced four World's Fair babies, brought the Eskimo Village concessionaires to court, and formed a new company to establish an independent Eskimo Village outside the fairgrounds. That was only their debut performance.
This profusely illustrated history documents performances at eleven world's fairs and expositions, at dime museums, with Barnum & Bailey's Circus, at Coney Island, on Fraser's Pier at Ocean Park, California, and in the film industry throughout the first decade of the Hollywood studios.
At the center of the story are two extraordinary women. Esther Eneutseak led a group of Labrador Inuit from the Paris World's Fair to Hollywood. Born at Chicago, her daughter Columbia wrote and starred in the first Hollywood film with a credited Inuit cast -- eleven years before Nanook of the North.
Tracing thirty years of Inuit involvement in multiple entertainment venues and forms, Jim Zwick contributes to our understanding of ethnic cultural performance in the development of modern American entertainment.
Jim Zwick is the editor of Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War and creator of the BoondocksNet.com site on U.S. political and cultural history.
