The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780816689767 (0816689768)
ASIN: 816689768
Publish date: September 5th 2013
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
From the amazon book description: (because I'm speechless after reading this book)"In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact..."I'm speech...
Tough one to review. King explicitly states at the outset it will be his own personal approach to a topic that spans 500+ years, consists of hundreds if not thousands of independent tribes (not a heterogeneous group - call them First Nations, Aboriginals, Native Americans, or Indians, as he prefers...