Playing Indian (Yale Historical Publications Series)
 

Playing Indian (Yale Historical Publications Series)

by Philip J. Deloria

Moving from the Boston Tea Party to the present, this provocative book explores the ways non-Indian Americans have acted out their fantasies about Indians in order to experience national, modern, and personal identities. In this complicated tug-of-war between imaginings and actions, Indian people have been embraced and rejected, frequently humiliated and occasionally empowered. The historical... (read more)

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  • sweetafton

    sweetafton said:

    Considering that there is a plethora of literature--some great and some dreadful--on the subject of images of Indians, one might wonder why a Deloria would bother... and why Yale Press would. But, this is top-notch scholarship. You bet.

    posted Sunday, September 16 2007
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