Gambling on Authenticity

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9780887555640

<p>In the decades since the passing of the Pamajewon ruling in Canada and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in the United States, gaming has come to play a crucial role in how Indigenous peoples are represented and read by both Indians and non-Indians alike. This collection presents a transnational examination of North American gaming and considers the role Indigenous artists and scholars play in producing depictions of Indigenous gambling. </p>

<p>In an effort to offer a more complete and nuanced picture of Indigenous gaming in terms of sign and strategy than currently exists in academia or the general public, <em>Gambling on Authenticity</em> crosses both disciplinary and geographic boundaries. The case studies presented offer a historically and politically nuanced analysis of gaming that collectively creates an interdisciplinary reading of gaming informed by both the social sciences and the humanities. </p>

<p>A great tool for the classroom, <em>Gambling on Authenticity</em> works to illuminate the not-so-new Indian being formed in the public’s consciousness by and through gaming.</p>