Despite the diversity of North American Native cultures, images in the popular imagination often are generalized and stereotyped. "Powerful Images" looks at the ways in which Indians have been portrayed by themselves and others, from the early 1800s to the present, in paintings, sculptures, traditional arts, photographs, and popular culture objects. 105 color illustrations.

SR 9/03.

Powerful images: art of the Plains and Southwest / Emma I. Hansen -- Frozen in time: Euro-American portrayals of Indians / Sarah E. Boehme -- History, connections, and cultural renewal / Gerald T. Conaty & Clifford Crane Bear -- Illusions and deceptions: the Indian in popular culture / James H. Nottage -- Native American artists- expressing their own identity / Mike Leslie.