Star Tribune: The Inconvenient Indian

By Chuck Haga

Star Tribune

December 06, 2013

king_inconvenient cover If you want to understand what’s happening in Indian Country today, on reservations and in urban Indian communities, Thomas King’s funny, angry, often whimsical and sometimes melancholic meditation, “The Inconvenient Indian,” is a good place to start.

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