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McCarthy, Cameron McCarthy, Cameron Molina-Guzman, Isabel Ciafone, Amanda Byrd, Jodi McSwain, Megan Y. 2022-01-12T22:35:19Z 2022-01-12T22:35:19Z 2024-01-12T22:35:30Z 2021-07-28 2021-08 Native Americans as a marginalized population within the United States are typically rendered invisible within contemporary culture and society. Often relegated to the past, within the American and global imagination, Natives are habitually characterized by homogenizing stereotypes, which only contributes to the erasure of tribes’ unique histories, cultures, and identities. In an attempt to illuminate one such tribe, this dissertation narrows the scholarly focus of Native American representations in media to examine the production and consumption of the Navajo tribe through three docuseries—30 Days (2008), Jamie’s American Road Trip (2009/2012), and Navajo Cops (2012). Situated at the intersection of Media Studies, American Indian Studies, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, this dissertation explores the ways in which Navajo identities are constructed by the shows’ white/non-Navajo hosts and producers for viewers’ cultural consumption. Interrogating a combined total of nine episodes, I seek to understand the ways in which Navajos are made (in)visible and represented through the shows’ touristic and ethnographic elements, reliance on Wild West imagery, disavowal of U.S. settler colonialism, and perpetuation of romantic Native tropes. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01 The student, Megan McSwain, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-16 at 13:02. The student, Megan McSwain, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-16 at 13:12. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-28 at 09:38. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16984 on 2022-01-12 at 12:55:25 Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:35:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 MCSWAIN-DISSERTATION-2021.pdf: 4475229 bytes, checksum: 97de232200c65f546d09cce89c6269b1 (MD5) Megan McSwain - Dissertation FINAL.docx: 3216667 bytes, checksum: f68afc4c071ab77b77b827ca7e5638e3 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: e1d62608d7348dce12cc38a08aecf44f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-07-28 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 121138 Lift date: 2024-01-12T22:35:30Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/113212 en Copyright 2021 Megan McSwain Navajos Native Americans media representations reservation tourism reality TV The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops text Thesis Inst of Communications Rsch Communications and Media University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.