Instead, the book is the author’s reflections about Native history in the northern two nations of North America. King points out that he substituted “account” for “history” in his subtitle when his son “pointed out that if I was going to call the book a history, I would be obliged to pay attention to the demands of scholarship” (p. x).
Thomas King, with The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, has written an engaging and accessible book that has the possibility of awakening curiosity, provoking outrage, and garnering sympathy among readers with little or no such knowledge. Most Americans’ knowledge of Native American histories, cultures, and circumstances is abysmal. Reviewed by Dave Beck (University of Montana)
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.
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