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Playing Indian
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"This provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in different eras--and how Indian people have reacted to these imitations...
"This provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in different eras--and how Indian people have reacted to these imitations of their native dress, language, and ritual"--
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- Creator
- Philip J. Deloria
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300264845, 0300264844
- OCLC
- on1267751084
- "With a new preface."
- "Originally published in hardcover in 1998."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-241) and index.
- Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (November 3, 2023)
- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction American Indians, American identities -- One Patriotic Indians and identities of revolution -- Two Fraternal Indians and republican identities -- Three Literary Indians and ethnographic objects -- Four Natural Indians and identities of modernity -- Five Hobby Indians, authenticity, and race in Cold War America -- Six Counterculture Indians and the New Age -- Conclusion The Grateful Dead Indians