Playing Indian (Yale Historical Publications Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0300080670
ISBN 13
9780300080674
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
262
Description
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 emotionally empowered. The historical anxieties revealed by "Playing Indian" continue o haunt Americans -both Indian and non-Indian- to this day.
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