Indians in Unexpected Places

John C. Ewers Book Award

Voted one of the ten best books in Native American and Indigenous Studies by the membership of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stereotypes. That’s why some images of Indians can be so unexpected and disorienting: What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why is an Indian woman in beaded buckskin sitting under a salon hairdryer? Such images startle...