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Deloria is as good a cultural historian as there is writing today. Here he takes what in lesser hands would be the ephemera of American Indian life and uses it to illuminate a whole world not apart from American society but locked in the heart of it. - Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A History of the American West A provocative, intriguing, and fascinating book that demonstrates a new sophistication in cultural studies about identity and power, continuity and change, and authenticity and artifice. - George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger Deloria's endpoint is to quiz stereotypes for their impact on ideological discourse, which he accomplishes with humor, grace, and depth. Highly recommended. - Choice Subtle and complex, this fascinating, well-researched book will no doubt find its way into unexpected places of honor in American cultural studies. - Santa Fe New Mexican An excellent book that reveals a secret history of Indian modernity too often obscured by our powerful wish to associate Indians with the traditional, the primitive, and 'the blanket.' - Werner Sollors, author of Neither Black Nor White Yet Both

Deloria is as good a cultural historian as there is writing today. Here he takes what in lesser hands would be the ephemera of American Indian life and uses it to illuminate a whole world not apart from American society but locked in the heart of it. - Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A History of the American West A provocative, intriguing, and fascinating book that demonstrates a new sophistication in cultural studies about identity and power, continuity and change, and authenticity and artifice. - George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger Deloria's endpoint is to quiz stereotypes for their impact on ideological discourse, which he accomplishes with humor, grace, and depth. Highly recommended. - Choice Subtle and complex, this fascinating, well-researched book will no doubt find its way into unexpected places of honor in American cultural studies. - Santa Fe New Mexican An excellent book that reveals a secret history of Indian modernity too often obscured by our powerful wish to associate Indians with the traditional, the primitive, and 'the blanket.' - Werner Sollors, author of Neither Black Nor White Yet Both

"Deloria is as good a cultural historian as there is writing today. Here he takes what in lesser hands would be the ephemera of American Indian life and uses it to illuminate a whole world not apart from American society but locked in the heart of it. - Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A History of the American West """"A provocative, intriguing, and fascinating book that demonstrates a new sophistication in cultural studies about identity and power, continuity and change, and authenticity and artifice."""" - George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger """"Deloria's endpoint is to quiz stereotypes for their impact on ideological discourse, which he accomplishes with humor, grace, and depth. Highly recommended."""" - Choice """"Subtle and complex, this fascinating, well-researched book will no doubt find its way into unexpected places of honor in American cultural studies."""" - Santa Fe New Mexican """"An excellent book that reveals a secret history of Indian modernity too often obscured by our powerful wish to associate Indians with the traditional, the primitive, and 'the blanket.'"""" - Werner Sollors, author of Neither Black Nor White Yet Both"

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Philip J. Deloria, of Dakota Sioux heritage, is professor of history and director of the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is author of Playing Indian and coeditor of the Blackwell Companion to Native American History.

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