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Author Lawlor, Mary, 1949-

Title Public Native America : tribal self-representations in casinos, museums, and powwows / Mary Lawlor
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Identity in Mashantucket -- Displaying loss at Navajoland -- Wind river lessons -- Keeping history at Acoma Pueblo -- Indigenous internationalism : native rights and the United Nations
Summary The Native American casino and gaming industry has attracted unprecedented American public attention to life on reservations. Other tribal public venues, such as museums and powwows, have also gained in popularity among non-Native audiences and become sites of education and performance. In Public Native America, Mary Lawlor explores the process of tribal self-definition that the communities in her study make available to off-reservation audiences. Focusing on architectural and interior designs as well as performance styles, she reveals how a complex and often surprising cultural dynamic is cre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-227) and index
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Subject Indians of North America -- Public opinion.
Indians of North America -- Psychology.
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnopsychology -- North America
Self-perception -- North America
Indians in popular culture -- North America
Powwows -- North America
Museum exhibits -- North America
Gambling on Indian reservations -- North America
Public opinion -- North America
Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights
Ethnopsychology
Gambling on Indian reservations
Indians in popular culture
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
Indians of North America -- Psychology
Indians of North America -- Public opinion
Museum exhibits
Powwows
Public opinion
Self-perception
North America
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005028059
ISBN 9780813539973
0813539978
0813538645
9780813538648