Everything you know about Indians is wrong / Paul Chaat Smith.
"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.'"--Inside jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 0816656010
- ISBN: 9780816656011
- ISBN: 0816656010
- ISBN: 9780816656028
- ISBN: 0816656029
- Physical Description: 193 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, �2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Some chapters previously published in various sources between 1992 and 2007. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Smith, Paul Chaat. Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation. Indians of North America > Ethnic identity. Indians of North America > Government relations > 1934- |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | E 98 .C89 S65 2009 | 273440 | Stacks | Available | - |
Lummi Library | E 98 .C89 S65 2009 | 290102 | Stacks | Available | - |