the recent violent overthrow of reconstruction in Mississippi.

在密西西比发生的反对重建的暴力运动
American Indians were represented at the exposition

展会上也有美国印第安人
but almost exclusively depicted as a people of the past,

但几乎只是以先祖的形象展出
or as harmless and primitive noble savages.

或者天真善良的未开化人种出现
They were either a vanishing Indian

他们要么是逐渐消亡的印第安人
or an Indian of a kind of cultural mystique,

要么是传承了文化神秘性的印第安人
a deeply American mystique.

那种深刻的美洲文化的神秘性
And then came the news right after the 4th of July

七月四日[独立日]之后有这么一条新闻
where some real Indians rudely interrupted all the celebrations.

一群真正的印第安人粗暴地打断了所有庆祝
The news arrived that General George Armstrong Custer

乔治·阿姆斯特朗·卡斯特将军
had been defeated, indeed wiped out,

战败被杀的消息传来
all his men killed-- well almost all-- by the Sioux,

他的将士几乎全部被