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Book SynopsisChronicles how Indians came to represent themselves in Wild West shows, Hollywood films, sports, music, and their use of the automobile. This book examines longstanding stereotypes of Indians as invariably violent, suggesting that, even as such views continued in American popular culture, they were also transformed by the violence at Wounded Knee.
Trade ReviewDeloria is as good a cultural historian as there is writing today. Here he takes what in lesser hands would be the ephemera of American Indian life and uses it to illuminate a whole world not apart from American society but locked in the heart of it. - Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A History of the American West ""A provocative, intriguing, and fascinating book that demonstrates a new sophistication in cultural studies about identity and power, continuity and change, and authenticity and artifice."" - George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger ""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 ""An excellent book that reveals a secret history of Indian modernity too often obscured by our powerful wish to associate Indians with the traditional, the primitive, and 'the blanket.'"" - Werner Sollors, author of Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
