> Help needed! I am looking for scholarly type articles/books on the issue
> of the appropriation of native culture/images by the popular culture,
> especially for commercial purposes. I've got lots of information on specific
> apporpriations (Crazy Horse beer, Native Barbie Doll, Dances with Wolves,
> etc.) So, I'm not as interested in adding to my list of examples (unless
> you have something really outrageous). What I'm really looking for is
> some scholarly type commentary on the issue -- perhaps someone has written
> something advancing an important way of looking at all this, and I just
> don't know about it. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Send
> them to me personally at the above address. Thanks.
You should browse through:
Fantasies of the Master Race
Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians
by: Ward Churchill (Common Courage Press) 1992