Going Native by Shari M. Huhndorf

Indians in the American Cultural Imagination

A critical study of how U.S. literature, film, anthropology, and popular discourse have used the trope of “going native” to shape understandings of Indigenous peoples and settler identities, arguing that these representations police racial, gender, and national boundaries, exoticize and delegitimize Native sovereignty, and reveal the colonial power dynamics that underlie debates over authenticity, assimilation, and cultural authority.

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