Everything you know about Indians is wrong / Paul Chaat Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Paul Chaat.

Series:

Indigenous Americas.

Indigenous Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America--Government relations--1934-.

Smith, Paul Chaat.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in "the Indian business. "Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the 1970's, working with the American Indian Movement until it dissolved into dysfunction and infighting. Afterward he lived in New York, the city of choice for political exiles, and eventually arrived in Washington, D.C., at the newly minted National Museum of the American Indian ("a bad idea whose time has come") as

Contents:

Every picture tells a story

pt. I. States of amnesia

Lost in translation

On romanticism

After the gold rush

Land of a thousand dances

The big movie

The ground beneath our feet

Homeland insecurity

pt. II. Everything we make is art

Americans without tears

Delta 150

Luna remembers

Standoff in Lethbridge

Struck by lightning

Meaning of life

States of amnesia

pt. III. Jukebox spiritualism

A place called irony

Life during peacetime

Last gang in town

From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station

Ghost in the machine

Afterword : end of the line

Acknowledgments

Publication history.

Notes:

Some chapters previously published in various sources between 1992 and 2007.

ISBN:

0-8166-6810-8

OCLC:

670429474