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Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong
Paul Chaat Smith
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Description for Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong
Hardback. Series: Indigenous Americas. Num Pages: 192 pages, 16 b&w illustrations, 6 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
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 1970s, 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”) as a curator. In ... Read more
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 1970s, 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”) as a curator. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Indigenous Americas
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816656011
SKU
V9780816656011
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About Paul Chaat Smith
Paul Chaat Smith is associate curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is the coauthor, with Robert Warrior, of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.
Reviews for Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong
From Publishers Weekly In this acerbic collection of essays, Comanche cultural critic and art curator Smith (Like a Hurricane) riffs on the romantic stereotypes of Indian as “spiritual masters and first environmentalists,” as tragic victims of technology and civilization, as primal beings brimming with nomad authenticity, their every artifact a gem of folk art. Such tropes, he complains, hide the ... Read more