Playing Indian
, by Philip J. DeloriaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780300080674 | 0300080670
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 9/10/1999
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 anxieties revealed by Playing Indian continue to haunt Americans -- both Indian and non-Indian -- to this day.