Description: Deloria's lucid writing shatters stereotypes and celebrates modern Native Americans, forcing us to rethink familiar expectations by challenging us to see Indians as film directors, baseball pitchers--even opera singers. Deloria shows how expectations contribute to the racism and injustice that still haunt the experiences of many Native American people today.
Review Quotes:
"A trenchant and enlightening examination of American
Indian identity and of federal policy that has affected it."--Montana The Magazine of Western History
"An eminently readable work. . . . Deloria tells some achingly beautiful stories of the kinds of lives his own relatives managed to carve out in the face of white expectations."--Multicultural Review
"Highly recommended for public, high school, and academic libraries with multicultural interests."--Library Journal
"Deloria succeeds brilliantly."--Journal of the West
"Deloria's endpoint is to quiz stereotypes for their impact on ideological discourse, which he accomplishes with humor, grace, and depth. Highly recommended."--Choice
"Subtle and complex, this fascinating, well-researched book will no doubt find its way into unexpected places of honor in American cultural studies."--Santa Fe New Mexican