Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong

by Paul Chaat Smith

Book Overview

In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in "the Indian business." Raised in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816656010
• ISBN13: 9780816656011
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

American Truth

It is fun to read this book: Everything you know about Indians is wrong, by Paul Chaat Smith. He is the associate curator of the National Museum of the American Indian of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. It is a collection of essays he wrote over the years. It is a sharing from Native Voice authority, especially on the destiny manifested. The Trail of Tears and the Wounded Knee impacted the national conscience. The occupied Alcatraz Island of SF Bay was Indian Movement. On p.171, he mentioned ancient ancestors came to Turtle Island by Bering Strait. That may mean red men and yellow men are distant cousins with the same DNA! Oklahoma is American without tears in a big tribal family. It is said to learn of the Colt gun improvement to a license to kill more efficiently. Warning: reading this books will show the shocking truth of Native American history.