Tomorrow: Philip Deloria to Give Slide-Lecture, "Indians in Unexpected Places" By Douglas Sackman
	Playing Indian, the front cover		NOVEMBER 16, 1999--Philip Deloria will give a slide-lecture, "Indians in Unexpected Places" Wednesday, November 17, at 4.30 P.M. in King 306. Deloria, an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado, is the author of Playing Indian (Yale 1998), a cultural history of the performance of Indian identity from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age. "Exciting, persuasive, and unlike anything else in the literature, Playing Indianoffers new insights into the interplay of identities in American society," says Richard White, Byrne Professor of History at Stanford University. Deloria comes from an important family in Native American intellectual history. His father is the scholar and activist Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died for Your Sins and other works. His great-aunt was Ella Deloria, who attended Oberlin College for two years and went on to write a novel and do pioneering ethnographic work with Franz Boas at Columbia University.
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