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Playing Indian (Yale Historical Publications Series)
Playing Indian - Yale Historical Publications Series Author:Philip J. Deloria This provocative book explores the way non-Indian Americans have appropriated Indian dress and acted out Indian roles since the Boston Tea Party--and the reactions of Indian people to these imitations of their native dress, language, and ritual. The author shows that white ideas about Indians have shaped national identity at different times in A... more »merican history, and that Indians have been both idealized and villainized, humiliated and empowered, by these imaginings.« less