Yale historical publications.

"With a new preface."

"This provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in different eras--and how Indian people have reacted to these imitations of their native dress, language, and ritual"--

"Originally published in hardcover in 1998."

Preface -- List of Illustrations --

Introduction

American Indians, American identities --

One

Patriotic Indians and identities of revolution --

Two

Fraternal Indians and republican identities --

Three

Literary Indians and ethnographic objects --

Four

Natural Indians and identities of modernity --

Five

Hobby Indians, authenticity, and race in Cold War America --

Six

Counterculture Indians and the New Age --

Conclusion

Grateful Dead Indians