Magic Children

One day at the end of the twentieth century, Roger Echo-Hawk decided to give up being an Indian. After becoming an American Indian historian, he started to question our widespread reliance on a concept of race that the academy had long-since discredited, and embarked on a personal and professional journey to giving up race himself. This passionate book offers a powerful meditation on racialism and a manifesto for creating a world without it. Echo-Hawk examines personal identity, social movements, and policy—NAGPRA, Indian law, Red Pride, indigenous archaeology—showing how they rely on race and how they should move beyond it. Chapter 1 In the Fifteenth Dream; Chapter 2 Nothing Is Real; Chapter 3 The Haunted Statue; Chapter 4 The Bear Enchantments; Chapter 5 Slowly Unraveling; Chapter 6 The Enchanted Coop; Chapter 7 In the Ninth Dream; Chapter 8 In the Land of Rangers and Bears and Hispanics; Chapter 9 In the Tenth Dream;