Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1994
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-241) and index
The author explores America's fascination with North American Indian culture from the Boston Tea Party to fraternal societies and literary representations
American Indians, American identities -- - Patriotic Indians and identities of revolution -- - Fraternal Indians and ethnographic objects -- - Natural Indians and identities of modernity -- - Hobby Indians, authenticity, and race in cold war America -- - Counterculture Indians and the New Age -- - The Grateful Dead Indians