Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong

Growing up in Oklahoma City, I remember the furniture store that encouraged our patronage because they “loved folks.”

In his book, Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong, Paul Chaat Smith reminds us how the dominant culture in all of its various manifestations— media, schooling, law, politics, and academics— fails or refuses to deal with Native peoples “as just plain folks.” The battle for realistic and positive treatment by mass media, notes Smit... >Voir plus