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Description
Children from the Chestnut Street School performed as Native people and Pilgrims during Thanksgiving Day exercises.
Ideas about "Americanization" perpetuated stereotypes about Indigenous people, and by dressing up, or "playing Indian" they took on the identity of what they perceived as "Indian" and erased the lived experiences of actual Native people.
About This Item
- Title: Chestnut Street School Thanksgiving, Portland, 1924
- Creation Date: 1924
- Subject Date: 1924
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 7.6 cm x 10.2 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.7440
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Celebrations--Maine--Portland
- Children playing adults--Maine--Portland
- Commemorations--Maine--Portland
- Costumes--American
- Thanksgiving Day
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