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Indians Playing Indian - Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America (Paperback)
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Indians Playing Indian - Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America (Paperback)
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Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the
pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural
minorities in the United States and Canada Contemporary indigenous
peoples in North America confront a unique predicament. While they
are reclaiming their historic status as sovereign nations,
mainstream popular culture continues to depict them as cultural
minorities similar to other ethnic Americans. These depictions of
indigenous peoples as "Native Americans" complete the broader
narrative of America as a refuge to the world's immigrants and a
home to contemporary multicultural democracies, such as the United
States and Canada. But they fundamentally misrepresent indigenous
peoples, whose American history has been not of immigration but of
colonization. Monika Siebert's Indians Playing Indian first
identifies this phenomenon as multicultural misrecognition,
explains its sources in North American colonial history and in the
political mandates of multiculturalism, and describes its
consequences for contemporary indigenous cultural production. It
then explores the responses of indigenous artists who take
advantage of the ongoing popular interest in Native American
culture and art while offering narratives of the political
histories of their nations in order to resist multicultural
incorporation. Each chapter of Indians Playing Indian showcases a
different medium of contemporary indigenous art-museum exhibition,
cinema, digital fine art, sculpture, multimedia installation, and
literary fiction-and explores specific rhetorical strategies
artists deploy to forestall multicultural misrecognition and
recover political meanings of indigeneity. The sites and artists
discussed include the National Museum of the American Indian in
Washington, DC; filmmakers at Inuit Isuma Productions; digital
artists/photographers Dugan Aguilar, Pamela Shields, and Hulleah
Tsinhnahjinnie; sculptor Jimmie Durham; and novelist LeAnne Howe.
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