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.

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.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.07.2024
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781032763866
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276386-6
• Pages: 256
• Subjects: HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Anthropology, Identity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Relating to Native American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, Race and Ethnicity, Settler colonialism, Cultural assimilation, Relating to Native American people / First Americans, Tribal Sovereignty, American Indian, ethnographic analysis, intersectionality studies, Noble savage, indigenous representation, American Indian identity formation, Rez Indian