Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity

Redface: Race, Performance, and IndigeneityRedface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even more crucially, exclude them from full citizenship in the United States. Arguing that redface is more than just the costumes or makeup an actor wears, Bethany Hughes contends that it is a collaborative, curatorial process through which artists and

Against an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas

This is a vulnerability that affects us all—insofar as we are all inhabitants of a civilization

Johnson merges myth

Some of the contributors are scholars

We had a little real estate problem

It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States

water witching

and leadership

Assisted by his trusty sidekicks Mega Bear and Diogi

It includes a holistic and broad disciplinary approach to sustainability

and anyone wanting to know more about indigenous foodways

Riggs also provides an ethnographic overview of various aspects of Dakota culture and history that enhances the value of the book to all students of Dakota