Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality

"Her book offers many insights into the criminality of Native people, as well as that of women or anyone else who is poor and oppressed." —Canadian Woman Studies

Luana Ross writes, "Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a 'real' prison was and did not give it any thought. I imagined this as normal; that all families had relativ...