Thomas King and the inconvenient Indians

Cougar Face

   Thomas King is a long time Canadian activist and writer of Native American subjects and his book called "The Inconvenient Indian' looks at the historical struggles if the Native Americans in the post Wounded Knee world. King dispels the notion that native Americans have simply disappeared and shows the Native Americans have been fighting for their right sup to this day and he recalls countless defeats and victories and the ever-shifting laws on land use concerning the indigenous people of North America. This is a great comedic written piece by the humorous King who looks at Native portrayal in film from Hollywood and how these misconceiving have played a large part in defining how America thinks of its Indians.  King is a more legendary cultural character North of the border and is an award winning scriptwriter and novelist writing many books of the topic of the modern day complexities facing indigenous people and their continuing struggle to fight the federal governments for land rights promised in many broken treaties through the years. King tackles several subjects of major concern for natives and basically gives his take on the history and treatment of the native American throughout this book but without making many of the same worn out victimhood behavior. King shows how natives have used the courts and gained greater power of use of their reservations and setting up casinos which has allowed them to buy up properties outside their reservation yet still retain a tax-exempt status for their holdings despite government and local resistance such as a casino project next to Glen Dale, Arizona. Contrary to history king shows how native Americans mostly let the greedy developers push them aside but it is now the Indians who are standing their ground and expanding in both population, influence, and land increases through using the same institutions and courts that were used for centuries to justify their dismissal for progress.