What is a space?
An area with unlimited boundaries.
A domesticated limited place.
An area owned by an entity
What is a place?
A domesticated limited place
What is a territory?
Yi-Fu Tuan said that ' is security, is freedom'
Smith wrote in order to see why Western America was considered as a and a .
talks about the common idea that the west is and how the happened.
Before the , were more interested by the . They saw themselves as the nation which dominates the , and so a supreme .
What is agrarianism ?
A group of thinkers in France.
A group of thinkers in the United States.
A group arguing that land is essential.
A group arguing that sea power is essential
thinks that land is a source of and . and interest: to people to have .
For the U.S to be glorious, they have to take control on:
The sea and the land
The sea
The land
The American West is a because everyone has of it.
What is a myth ?
For something true
For something untrue
What is a symbol ?
An image representing something
Something recurrent
What is/are the symbol(s) of the West?
Freedom
Individualism
Independance
Fear
The west is called the . It is seen as a but the American got rid of the who were there.
The term free land is borrowed from .
There are always versions of history. Here it is that the west was a but also that it .
The expansion of the U.S begins and continues .
Nowadays the Indian territory is composed of .
The pride of the is seen as a great loss for the .
Lewis and Clark was to make , to the west, to make , , to obtain the right to navigate on the .
Jefferson wanted to compete the near the borders
There were rivalries in the U.S between the , the , the ...
In his letter, Jefferson says he wants to the territory by buying to Spain or it with .
is important because it different and for the of from the to the .
wanted the U.S to be inhabited by but not .
Quand Lewis et Clark sont morts, on n'a paq publié leurs journaux. Ils ont été publiés en .
A website of the Indian movement Ponca asks the question : should we Lewis and Clark or should we them ?
Lewis and Clark...
Analyse the geography
Analyse the fauna and the flora
Analyse the Indian routes
Analyse the indian individualism
often accompanied surveys to take of the places visited.
The issue was not , but how we can exploit it for or .
Photographers perpetuate a tradition already present in : to show the witht the idea of and , but also the of the Wild west.
tells us there is a problem in photos because they have a function.
History is : it is complex and evolves according to and .
Caution with : you cannot look at a period with your eyes of nowadays.
In , was not the main subject of photography anymore. They wanted to photograph .
represents indians , in photographs.
In , after a massacre, removes objects of modern life to represent the of the indians.
