| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist. By Chris Friday. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xvii + 283 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.)

Chris Friday has taken up a formidable—and admirable—issue that will win him few friends among Native American artists. Don Smith, his subject, born of mixed Cherokee heritage and best-known as Lelooska ("Cutting Off with a Knife") was primarily identified through the most productive and visible part of his life with the creation of arts from the Northwest Coast, most especially the Kwakiutl. His career was disturbed by repeated challenges to the authenticity of his "Indiannness" in general and to the legitimacy of his use of Northwest Coast images and stories. Friday puts his authorial intent unambiguously at the outset. To the wider artistic and scholarly conversation about "authenticity," he wants to contribute his view that "Don was 'Indian,' that he was not a mere interloper in a world of 'authentic culture' to which he did not 'belong,' and that 'mixed-blood' people not only are cultural creators but can be directly involved in critical tribal politics" (pp. 16–7).

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