Playing Indian

Playing Indian
AuthorPhilip J. Deloria
LanguageEnglish
SeriesYale Historical Publications Series
SubjectStereotypes of Native Americans, Cultural appropriation
PublisherYale University Press
Publication date
1998
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages262
ISBN978-0300080674
Two little boys "playing Indian" (1914)

Playing Indian is a 1998 nonfiction book by Philip J. Deloria, which explores the history of the conflicted relationship white America has with Native American peoples. It explores the common historical and contemporary societal pattern of non-Natives simultaneously mimicking stereotypical ideas and imagery of "Indians" and "Indianness" (the "Playing Indian" of the title), in a quest for National identity in particular, while also denigrating, dismissing, and making invisible real, contemporary Indian people.[1]

  1. ^ Deloria, Philip J. (1999). Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 64–8, 91, 101, et al. ISBN 9780300080674. Retrieved February 28, 2019.