Mediating Indianness Wabanaki (Trickster: Native American Tales

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Currents issues facing Native Americans in Minnesota are explored as well as efforts to maintain and preserve tribal sovereignty

the second section compares Plains Cree culture to other Plains Nations

Mediating Indianness Wabanaki (Trickster: Native American TalesMediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media including print, film, theatre, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or entertaining ways to negotiate Native American identities and images. The selection of the term Indianness is deliberate. It points to the intricate construction of ethnicity as filtered through media,