Being Indian and Walking Proud - American Indian Identity and Reality

This book explores the identity of American Indians from an Indigenous perspective and how outside influences throughout history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the twenty-first century, have affected Native people.

List of contents

1. "The Natural Man": The Noble Savage in Colonial America 2. "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian": The Savage 3. "It Was Only an Indian and It Did Not Matter": The Vanishing Race to Rez Indians 4. "No Dogs or Indians Allowed!": Legal Indians, Blood Quantum and CDIB 5. "My Grandmother Was a Cherokee Princess": Native Women 6. "Kill the Indian in Him and Save the Man": Growing up and Church Going Indians 7. "By the Shores of Gitche Gumee...": Indians in Literature 8. "Kimo Sabe Means": Indians in Films and the Media 9. "The White Man's Indian": The Urban Indian and Casino Indian 10. "I'm Not Your Indian Anymore": The Indian Activist 11. "Going Native": Self-Identification, Wannabes and Shouldabeens 12. "The Bottom of the Totem Pole": The Indian Identity Crisis and Walking Tall

About the author

Donald L. Fixico (Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee and Seminole) is a Regents’ and Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. He has worked on 25 documentaries on American Indians and has authored or edited 15 books. He is the author of The American Indian Mind in a Linear World.

Summary

This book explores the identity of American Indians from an Indigenous perspective and how outside influences throughout history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the twenty-first century, have affected Native people.

Product details

• Authors: Donald L. Fixico
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032763866
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276386-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Relating to Native American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, HISTORY / Indigenous / General