Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid

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and the limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation

Playing Indian Lakota Three-term poet laureate Joy HarjoThe Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts are just a few examples of the American tendency to appropriate Indian dress and act out Indian roles. This provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Indians to shape national identity in different erasand how Indian people have reacted to these imitations of their native dress, language, and ritual. At the Boston Tea Party,