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Everything you know about Indians is wrong  Cover Image Book Book

Everything you know about Indians is wrong

Smith, Paul Chaat (Author).

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.'"--Inside jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0816656010
  • ISBN: 9780816656011
  • ISBN: 0816656010
  • ISBN: 9780816656028
  • ISBN: 0816656029
  • Physical Description: print
    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.
Subject: Smith, Paul Chaat
Indians of North America Cultural assimilation
Indians of North America Ethnic identity
Indians of North America Government relations 1934-

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Lummi Library E 98 .C89 S65 2009 273440 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library E 98 .C89 S65 2009 290102 Stacks Available -

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