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Playing Indian: Performance and the Colonial Gaze

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West turned Indigenous people into spectacle for settler audiences. This dispatch examines how performance produces ideas about Indigeneity — and how Indigenous performers have used the same stage to contest those ideas.

13 Nov 20265 min read
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