Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-130) and index.
1. Of Tombs, Reservations, and Museums: Exhibiting Native America in the Contemporary United States -- 2. Vanished, Vanquished, and Vestigial: Fixing and Fashioning Native America at the Smithsonian Institution -- 3. Spectacles, Sport, and Stereotypes: Dis/Playing Chief Illiniwek -- 4. Segregated Stories and Fatalistic Fictions: The Colonial Contours of the Little Bighorn Battlefield -- 5. Surrounded by Indians: The Exhibition of Comanche, "the Sole Survivor," of the Battle of the Little Bighorn -- 6. Toward the Deconstructive Reconstruction of the Museum: Reinventing Exhibition, Reimagining Native America