Being Indian and Walking Proud

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This book explores the identity of American Indians from an Indigenous perspective and how outside influences throughout history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the twenty-first century, have affected Native people.

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1. "The Noble Savage": The Noble Savage in Colonial America 2. "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian": The Savage 3. "The Vanishing Race": The Vanishing Race to Rez Indians 4. "No Dogs or Indians Allowed!": Legal Indians, Blood Quantum and CDIB 5. "My Grandmother Was a Cherokee Princess": Native Women 6. "Kill the Indian in Him and Save the Man": Growing up and Church Going Indians 7. "By the Shores of Gitche Gumee...": Indians in Literature 8. "Kimo Sabe Means": Indians in Films and the Media 9. "The White Man's Indian": The Urban Indian and Casino Indian 10. "I'm Not Your Indian Anymore": The Indian Activist 11. "Going Native": Self-Identification, Wannabes and Shouldabeens 12. "The Bottom of the Totem Pole": The Indian Identity Crisis and Walking Tall