For the Western world, it is perhaps the most fascinating expression of otherness.
For nearly five hundred years, the image of Sioux has dominated and even encompasses all other representations of North American Indians.
How the cliché of the Redskin was constructed, how it prospered and still thrives even in the schoolyards, gardens and sandboxes of childhood: this is the subject of an exhibition as fascinating as it is colorful, mounted over more than 1000 square meters at the Musée des confluences, in Lyon.
A diorama opens the route, a museography today considered outdated, but a decor with a certain poetic load.
We get to know the said savage in his usual environment (here with a pair of stuffed bison).
At a time when the Circassian menageries are closing, it is cheeky.
This even if a text placed opposite specifies the reality: 20,000 years of seniority in the territory, a population estimated at several million, hundreds of nations and nearly 1,000 languages.
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