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Also by Philip J. Deloria:

Playing Indian, September 1999
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PLAYING INDIAN
By: Philip J. Deloria

Yale University Press
September 1999
On Sale: September 10, 1999
262 pages
ISBN: 0300080670
EAN: 9780300080674
Paperback
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Historical

Moving from the Boston Tea Party to the present, this provocative book explores the ways non-Indian Americans have acted out their fantasies about Indians in order to experience national, modern, and personal identities. In this complicated tug-of-war between imaginings and actions, Indian people have been embraced and rejected, frequently humiliated and occasionally empowered.

The historical anxieties revealed by Playing Indian continue to haunt Americans -- both Indian and non-Indian -- to this day.

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