Title: The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account Of Native People In North America
Description: 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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, History, Indians of North America, Ethnic relations, Treatment of Indians, Indians of north america, history, Indians of north america, social life and customs, Indians, treatment of, Ethnology, north america, Political activity, Indian activists, American Indian Movement