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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians by Angela Pulley Hudson (review)

Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians by Angela Pulley... Reviews Angela Pulley Hudson. Real Native Genius: How an Ex- Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 255 pp. Paper, $29.95. Erin Guydish, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Th is intriguing work delves into reporting and analyzing America’s his- tory of cultural appropriation and exploitation and cultural defi nitions as methods of identity development and identity interaction. Angela Pulley Hudson introduces the reader to Warner McCary, a former slave turned Native American and sometime conman, and Lucy Stanton, a sometime Mormon who interspersed her identity claims with those of Native American identity. Pulley Hudson traces McCary (Okah Tubbee) and Stanton (Laah Ceil) as they develop their Indian identities, tour the country as Indians, and end their marriage and career. While this work contextualizes and discusses possible motives for Tubbee’s and Ceil’s choices, Pulley Hudson’s writing explores less of what their Indian per- formances say about themselves and more of what their performances said and did for Americans and American identity in making it more complex and diverse than categorical versions of American identities. Her work contributes to the discussion of racial distinctions and disrup- tions and the idea of Indianness as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians by Angela Pulley Hudson (review)

Guydish, Erin
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 42 (3) – Aug 23, 2018
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Reviews Angela Pulley Hudson. Real Native Genius: How an Ex- Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 255 pp. Paper, $29.95. Erin Guydish, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Th is intriguing work delves into reporting and analyzing America’s his- tory of cultural appropriation and exploitation and cultural defi nitions as methods of identity development and identity interaction. Angela Pulley Hudson introduces the reader to Warner McCary, a former slave turned Native American and sometime conman, and Lucy Stanton, a sometime Mormon who interspersed her identity claims with those of Native American identity. Pulley Hudson traces McCary (Okah Tubbee) and Stanton (Laah Ceil) as they develop their Indian identities, tour the country as Indians, and end their marriage and career. While this work contextualizes and discusses possible motives for Tubbee’s and Ceil’s choices, Pulley Hudson’s writing explores less of what their Indian per- formances say about themselves and more of what their performances said and did for Americans and American identity in making it more complex and diverse than categorical versions of American identities. Her work contributes to the discussion of racial distinctions and disrup- tions and the idea of Indianness as

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