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This is a study of white fantasies and anti-Indian propaganda... provides a systematic account of how the stage presented American Indians to the public for over 150 years. Lower- division and up. -- G.M. Bataille * CHOICE * ... fascinating.... examines a form of American drama against the social, political, and technological changes in American life, and in the process opens doors and windows everywhere else.-John H. Stroupe, Comparative Drama ... high marks for this book in scholarship and analysis- Jones' treatment of the subject is original, extensive, consistent and coherent.-Victor Leo Walker, II, Theatre Studies ... fascinating.... examines a form of American drama against the social, political, and technological changes in American life, and in the process opens doors and windows everywhere else.-John H. Stroupe, Comparative Drama ... high marks for this book in scholarship and analysis- Jones' treatment of the subject is original, extensive, consistent and coherent.-Victor Leo Walker, II, Theatre Studies

... fascinating.... examines a form of American drama against the social, political, and technological changes in American life, and in the process opens doors and windows everywhere else.--John H. Stroupe, Comparative Drama... high marks for this book in scholarship and analysis-- Jones' treatment of the subject is original, extensive, consistent and coherent.--Victor Leo Walker, II, Theatre Studies

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Eugene Jones's career (MA, City College; Ph.M., Ph.D., theater, CUNY Graduate Center) has included stints as stage manager and director in professional theater, opera, and ballet, copy editor in the book publishing industry, and director in regional, community, and academic theater. Indians in life and on the stage have been an abiding interest, resulting in his first book, Where the Wind Blew Free (1967) and in this new history of Indian plays. He teaches theater and speech in South Carolina colleges and is researching the theater history of Charleston.

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