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Article: Playing Indian.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2001
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Playing Indian. By Philip J. Deloria. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 249. $13.95.)
What unites the Boston Tea Party, Lewis Henry Morgan, Ernest Thompson Seton, and counterculture communes? They all searched for a new American identity in a time of anxiety when the problems of the society seemed to be pulling the nation in many directions. They looked for this identity through Indian play, utilizing Native American costumes, beliefs, and practices.
In Playing Indian, Philip J. Deloria argues that the figure of "the Indian" holds an important position in American culture. Indianness has through centuries provided "impetus and ...
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