| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast. By Paige Raibmon. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi, 307 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 0-8223-3535-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8223-3547-6.)

This book examines several important contexts in which indigenous people of the Northwest Coast performed ethnic identity: the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, wage labor in the hop fields of Washington, and interactions of the Tlingit around Sitka with white tourists and officials. The author argues against the essentializing discourses of race, savagery, or, indeed, nobility that were widely applied by outsiders to American Indians in the nineteenth century and continue to be today. Rather, ethnicity is seen as the product of complex social contexts, in which it has value as a marker of identity and may be used in ways that both challenge and play off hegemonic constructions. This book, in a sense, is a response to the issues posed by Philip J. Deloria's Playing Indian (1998). But here, rather than Euro-Americans donning war paint, it is indigenous people themselves who "play Indian."

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