| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Indians in Unexpected Places. By Philip J. Deloria. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xii, 300 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-7006-13447.)
Late in the nineteenth century, anthropologists declared that they must work fast to salvage the remains of a fast-disappearing Native American culture. This attitude informed what the academic world and the public believed about a vanishing race. In Indians in Unexpected Places, Philip J. Deloria demonstrates how this expectation played out in popular culture and why the unexpectedness of Indians appearing in automobiles, as sports heroes, or in the movies playing themselves was frequently startling to a public that expected the Indians either to disappear or to remain frozen in an earlier time. Deloria describes the stereotypical Indians reduced to unidimensional figures in an increasingly multidimensional world.	1
Deloria uses the history of violence in America to provide readers with an in-depth look at the anomalous Indians of the turn of the century. Language defined Indian/white relations—was the encounter at Wounded Knee a war or an outbreak? Or was it a massacre? Indian violence was used to justify violence against Indians by whites, and the concept of resistance had no place in the telling of Indian history.	. . .

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