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“Recitation” by Norman Rockwell. Saturday Evening Post and Curtis Publishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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D<\/strong>uring the Progressive period, shifting perspectives on the issue of raising children were also in response to the downside of urbanization.\u00a0 Back to nature enthusiasts held that \u201cmodern living was the responsible for effeminate boys without character or abilities<\/p>\n

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T<\/strong>o deal with the cultural anxieties, organizations like the Seton League of Woodcraft<\/a><\/em> and Boy Scouts of America<\/a><\/em> offered programming designed in response to the pitfalls of modern industrial life, encouraging a return to \u201cprimitive\u201d ways. \u00a0Seton and other back to nature supporters held that Native Americans were no longer a threat to white society and framed Native Americans<\/a> <\/em>as romanticized \u201cnoble savages\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cT<\/strong>hey were part of a group of Indian fanciers who placed \u201cIndians outside the temporal (and societal) boundaries of modernity\u201d where they stood for the \u201cauthenticity and natural purity\u201d that might under-gird a new modern identity.\u201d (Hunhdorf)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo, Barb Leiche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T<\/strong>he consensus of Seton and others was to get back to our American roots – \u201cit was time toughen up like frontiersmen, hardy, self- sufficient individuals exposed and challenged by living in the rough wilderness \u2013 much like the \u201cprimitive savage\u201d dependent on self for survival.\u201d (Seton) It was thought that America\u2019s pioneer spirit was vanishing due to the lack of competitiveness, as well as \u201cthe independent virility of the American Man.\u201d (Deloria).\u00a0\u201cThese organizations used \u201cplaying Indian as a rite of passage and when a child would grow up turn away and they would grow out of playing savage\u201d(Vigal)<\/p>\n

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Charles Eastman at camp 1933. Eastman Family Papers, Jones Library, Amherst, MA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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      During the Progressive period, shifting perspectives on the issue of raising children were also in response to the downside of urbanization.\u00a0 Back…<\/p>\n

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