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Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian

Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian

Gercken, Becca
Pelletier, Julie

Paperback

Series: American Indian Studies

Native American HistoryGeneral Gambling

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ISBN10: 1611862566
ISBN13: 9781611862560
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: Nov 1 2017
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In the decades since the passing of the Pamajewon ruling in Canada and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in the United States, gaming has come to play a crucial role in how Indigenous peoples are represented and read by both Indians and non-Indians alike. This collection presents a transnational examination of North American gaming and considers the role Indigenous artists and scholars play in producing depictions of Indigenous gambling. In an effort to offer a more complete and nuanced picture of Indigenous gaming in terms of sign and strategy than currently exists in academia or the general public, Gambling on Authenticity crosses both disciplinary and geographic boundaries. The case studies presented offer a historically and politically nuanced analysis of gaming that collectively creates an interdisciplinary reading of gaming informed by both the social sciences and the humanities. A great tool for the classroom, Gambling on Authenticity works to illuminate the not-so-new Indian being formed in the public's consciousness by and through gaming.

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