Killing the White man's Indian : reinventing Native Americans at the end of the twentieth century / by Fergus M. Bordewich.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 1997, ©1996.
Edition:First Anchor Books trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Politics and government.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Government relations.
Physical Description:399 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "The very dregs, garbage and spanne of Earth"
  • "We ain't got feathers and beads"
  • The reinvention of Indian Country
  • The shadow of Chief Seattle
  • Listening for the ancestors
  • Predators, victims, and Mother Earth
  • "A scene most resembling hell"
  • "The hollowness of a person needs to be filled"
  • "Our lives have been transmuted, changed forever".