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The inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Thomas King
University of Minnesota Press
September 2013
On Sale: September 1, 2013
ISBN: 0816689768
EAN: 9780816689767
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply
knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly
unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North
America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the
centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, King 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. Suffused with wit, anger, perception, and wisdom, The
Inconvenient Indian is at once an engaging chronicle and a
devastating subversion of history, insightfully distilling
what it means to be “Indian” in North America. It is a
critical and personal meditation that sees Native American
history not as a straight line but rather as a circle in
which the same absurd, tragic dynamics are played out over
and over again. At the heart of the dysfunctional
relationship between Indians and Whites, King writes, is
land: “The issue has always been land.” With that insight,
the history inflicted on the indigenous peoples of North
America—broken treaties, forced removals, genocidal
violence, and racist stereotypes—sharpens into focus. Both
timeless and timely, The Inconvenient Indian ultimately
rejects the pessimism and cynicism with which Natives and
Whites regard one another to chart a new and just way
forward for Indians and non-Indians alike
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