| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth. By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xii + 225 pp. Notes. $26.95.)

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is widely regarded as a leading American Indian intellectual, and this collection of her essays is challenging, illuminating, and sometimes frustrating. Her basic premise in all the essays is that American Indian writers must write in defense of tribal sovereignty, that they must be enrolled members of a tribal nation, and that their responsibility is to their communities rather than to themselves. 1

In the essay "Anti-Indianism in Art and Literature," Cook-Lynn defines one form of anti-Indianism as the failure of poets to establish a historical context of the oppression and suffering that American Indians have endured at the hands of colonial governments. She asserts that when Indian writers play on stereotypes of Indians to convey some message to a non-Indian audience, they are guilty of anti-Indianism. She dismisses the nuances of satire or irony that such play might engender. . . .

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