Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America Siebert Monika
Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America Siebert Monika Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of…
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Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America Siebert Monika
Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and CanadaContemporary indigenous peoples in North America confront a unique predicament. 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. 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.
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