Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940. By Erika Marie Bsumek. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. x + 292 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-700-61595-7.
Reviewed by Clyde Ellis
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian cultures and the goods they produced were widely interpreted as icons of a rapidly disappearing world; indeed, exotic images of quaintly primitive people eking out a living weaving rugs or hammering silver seemed to confirm the superiority of industrial capitalism and of the modem, democratic state. The cynical and self-serving manipulation of market forces by whites promoted images of Indian artisans as the last of …
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