Contents
Prologue: Warm Toast and Porcupines1. Forget Columbus2. The End of the Trail3. Too Heavy to Lift4. One Name to Rule Them All5. We Are Sorry6. Like Cowboys and Indians7. Forget about It8. What Indians Want9. As Long as the Grass Is Green10. Happy Ever After
Acknowledgments
Thomas King is one of Canada’s premier Native public intellectuals. He was the first Aboriginal person to deliver the prestigious Massey Lectures, and he is the best-selling, award-winning author of six novels, two collections of short stories, and two nonfiction books. The Inconvenient Indian won the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the RBC Taylor Prize. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada and lives in Guelph, Ontario.
No writer is better positioned than Thomas King to tell a richly
Native history that reveals the common threads weaving North
American patterns across the boundary line between Canada and the
United States. The Inconvenient Indian sweeps up popular culture,
law and policy, and the complexities of resistance and reinvention,
framing all the tough issues through King's powerful storytelling
and penetrating eye.—Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan
"The Inconvenient Indian may well be unsettling for many
non-natives in this country to read. This is exactly why we all
should read it. Especially now." —Vancouver Sun
"King uses stories to turn history upside down. Or perhaps it is
more accurate to say that he presents history with a candour and
honesty rarely found in usual accounts of the interaction of
aboriginals and non-aboriginals." —Winnipeg Free Press
"The Inconvenient Indian is couched in a plainspoken forthrightness
that shocks as often as it demystifies. It is essential reading for
everyone who cares about Canada and who seeks to understand native
people, their issues and their dreams.Thomas King is beyond being a
great writer and storyteller, a lauded academic and educator. He is
a towering intellectual. For native people in Canada, he is our
Twain; wise, hilarious, incorrigible, with a keen eye for the
inconsistencies that make us and our society flawed, enigmatic, but
ultimately powerful symbols of freedom. The Inconvenient Indian is
less an indictment than a reassurance that we can create equality
and harmony. A powerful, important book." —Globe and Mail
"The author’s wit and storytelling talent make the book easy to
read; more importantly, his humor may keep readers from wanting to
scream at the injustices. " —Kirkus Reviews
"King delivers an intelligent and eye-opening overview of Native
peoples in post-Columbus North America in this new volume, a book
that has been a work-in-progress for most of the author’s adult
life. The effort shows." —Publishers Weekly
"Dr. King’s book should be required reading for anyone seeking
insider insight into how Indians have been treated in Canada versus
the United States." —New York Journal of Books
"From the first page to the last, The Inconvenient Indian shoulders
the American Indian burden of helping the White Man understand what
it means to be a natural person, a human being. It is a powerful
reminder of the big picture and a close look at the details - of
Indian history and of contemporary Indian life." —Indian Country
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