The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America / Thomas King.

Main entry:

King, Thomas, 1943- author.

Title & Author:

The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America / Thomas King.

Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
©2012

Description:

xvi, 287 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
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 -- A conversation between Shelagh Rogers and Thomas King.
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best Subsequent Book, 2013.

Summary:

In this book, the author offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. In the process, he refashions old stories about historical events and figures. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, he 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. At once a "history" and the complete subversion of a history, this is a critical and personal meditation that the author has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be "Indian" in North America. This book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780816689767 (hardback)
0816689768 (hardback)
9781517904463 (paperback)
1517904463 (paperback)

Subject:

Indians of North America History.
Indians of North America Social life and customs.
Indians, Treatment of North America.
Attitudes envers les Peuples autochtones Amérique du Nord.
Ethnic relations
Indians of North America
Indians, Treatment of
Aboriginal Canadians History.
Aboriginal Canadians Identity.
Indianer
Soziale Situation
Indianerpolitik
Ethnische Beziehungen
North America Ethnic relations.
North America.
Nordamerika.
Amérique du Nord Relations interethniques.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316028
Call No.: 316028
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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