The Inconvenient Indian
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Prologue: Warm Toast and Porcupines Chapter 1. Forget Columbus Chapter 2. The End of the Trail Chapter 3. Too Heavy to Lift Chapter 4. One Name to Rule Them All Chapter 5. We Are Sorry Chapter 6. Like Cowboys and Indians Chapter 7. Forget about It Chapter 8. What Indians Want Chapter 9. As Long as the Grass is Green Chapter 10. Happy Ever After
Themes
All Themes History and Mythology  Racism and Systemic Oppression Land Sovereignty
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Characters
All Characters Thomas King General George Armstrong Custer Louis Riel James Earle Fraser Richard Pratt Jay Silverheels Buffalo Bill Cody Will Rogers Theodore Roosevelt Andrew Jackson Franklin Delano Roosevelt Zig Jackson John Collier Lewis Meriam Duncan Campbell Scott
Terms
All Terms Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) American Indian Movement (AIM) Bill C-31 Blood Quantum Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Cherokee Freedmen General Allotment Act House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 108 Indian Act of 1876 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) Métis Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Removal Act Termination Trail of Tears
Symbols
All Symbols Dead Indians, Live Indians, and Legal Indians The End of the Trail
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The Inconvenient Indian

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Thomas King

The Inconvenient Indian Symbols

Dead Indians, Live Indians, and Legal Indians

King defines three categories of Indians that exist in real life: Dead Indians, Live Indians, and Legal Indians. These categories symbolize what King sees as a sharp disconnect between how North American culture perceives Native…

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The End of the Trail

The End of the Trail is a 1915 sculpture by the American artist James Earle Fraser. The sculpture itself symbolizes the gradual destruction of Native culture and the incompatibility of the old way of…

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