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Book

The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America

Call Number

  • 970.00497 K545 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Physical Description

xvi, 287 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands.

Notes

"Originally published in 2012 by Doubleday Canada"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Contents

  • Prologue: Warm toast and porcupines
  • Forget Columbus
  • The end of the trail
  • Too heavy to lift
  • One name to rule them all
  • We are sorry
  • Like cowboys and Indians
  • Forget about it
  • What Indians want
  • As long as the grass is green
  • Happy ever after.

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