| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

Te Ata: Chickasaw Storyteller, American Treasure. By Richard Green. Afterword by Rayna Green and John Troutman. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xiii + 353 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

In this traditional biography, Richard Green details the life of Te Ata, a Chickasaw "mixed-blood," who performed across America from 1920 through the 1970s, entertaining white Americans with allegedly authentic Indian stories and song. Her moderate success as an entertainer secured her honors and recognition from the Chickasaw Nation, and a measure of fame in the Oklahoma region. During Te Ata's lifetime, Indian people were still reeling from the colonial policies of the United States. They had been stripped of almost all land and resources, and, in most locations were abandoned after displacement, permanent exile, allotment, and other U. S. policies of cultural and physical genocide. Te Ata managed to avoid being victimized and turned her Native identity into a vehicle for entertaining white audiences, who seemed to be almost morbidly fascinated by the beauty and depth of the cultures their predecessors sought to destroy.

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