Graduation Year
2021
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Second Department
Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture
Reader 1
Andrew Aisenberg
Reader 2
Julia Lum
Abstract
The purpose of this project is to destabilize the categories of archive that render colonization in the United States a part of the past, failing to recognize its contemporary implications. This paper examines The North American Indian Project produced by Edward S. Curtis, and more specifically the photogravure Paviotso House at Walker Lake. These images, even from within the archive, can be used to challenge the very categories that it produces. Although Curtis failed to tend to the fight of the Walker River Paiute for their land and their lake, his works can be brought to bear on present day political efforts.
Recommended Citation
Norrito, Samantha, "Archival Fault Lines: Resistance and Survival in the Photos of Edward S. Curtis" (2021). Scripps Senior Theses. 1647.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1647
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
