Alaska's Big Spill: Can the Wilderness Heal?
Title
Alaska's Big Spill: Can the Wilderness Heal?
Description
The cover of the January 1990 issue of National Geographic magazine featured an oil-slicked bird - an image used repeatedly in popular media to appeal to the American public's empathy.To add to the emotional intensity of the Exxon Valdez disaster, the feature article displayed a photograph of an Alaskan native that was strikingly similar to "The Crying Indian" - also known as Iron Eyes Cody - who served as venerable poster child of the Keep America Beautiful litter campaign. The "Ecological Indian" stereotype appeared in the aftermath of the oil spill perhaps for the same sort of purpose that The Crying Indian played: to instill Exxon with guilt.
Creator
National Geographic
Source
National Geographic, Vol. 177, No.1, Jan. 1990
Date
1990-1
Files
Citation
National Geographic, “Alaska's Big Spill: Can the Wilderness Heal?,” Fifty Years of Green: An Environmental History of Middlebury College since 1965, accessed April 25, 2024, https://omeka.middlebury.edu/fyg/items/show/315.