Indians in Unexpected Places

摘要: What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why an Indian woman beaded buckskin under salon hairdryer? Such images startle and challenge our outdated visions of Native America. Philip Deloria's revealing accounts Indians unexpected things - singing opera, driving cars, acting Hollywood explores this cultural discordance ways that suggest new directions for American history. Deloria chronicles how came to represent themselves Wild West shows, films, sports, music, even people's use the automobile ironic counterpoint today's highways teeming with Dakota pickups Cherokee sport utility vehicles. He also examines longstanding stereotypes as invariably violent, suggesting that, such views continued popular culture, they were transformed by violence at Wounded Knee. Throughout, reveals previously hidden narratives force us rethink familiar expectations. These "secret histories," suggests, compel reconsider own current expectations about what people should be, act, look like. More important, he shows seemingly harmless (even if unconscious) contribute racism injustice still haunt experience many today.