03099nam 22005894a 450 991081884600332120200520144314.00-8166-6810-8(CKB)2670000000052459(EBL)592800(OCoLC)670429474(SSID)ssj0000417306(PQKBManifestationID)11264581(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417306(PQKBWorkID)10362430(PQKB)11196639(MiAaPQ)EBC592800(Au-PeEL)EBL592800(CaPaEBR)ebr10421841(CaONFJC)MIL906929(EXLCZ)99267000000005245920081229d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEverything you know about Indians is wrong /Paul Chaat Smith1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20091 online resource (208 p.)Indigenous AmericasSome chapters previously published in various sources between 1992 and 2007.0-8166-5601-0 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.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. "Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the 1970's, working with the American Indian Movement until it dissolved into dysfunction and infighting. Afterward he lived in New York, the city of choice for political exiles, and eventually arrived in Washington, D.C., at the newly minted National Museum of the American Indian ("a bad idea whose time has come") asIndigenous Americas.Indians of North AmericaCultural assimilationIndians of North AmericaEthnic identityIndians of North AmericaGovernment relations1934-Indians of North AmericaCultural assimilation.Indians of North AmericaEthnic identity.Indians of North AmericaGovernment relations323.1197Smith Paul Chaat1643581MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818846003321Everything you know about Indians is wrong3996774UNINA