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The Native American casino and gaming industry has attracted unprecedented American public attention to life on reservations. Other tribal public venues, such as museums and powwows, have also gained in popularity among non-Native audiences and become sites of education and performance. In Public Native America, Mary Lawlor explores the process of tribal self-definition that the communities in her study make available to off-reservation audiences. Focusing on architectural and interior designs as well as performance styles, she reveals how a complex and often surprising cultural dynamic is cre

Indians of North America --- Ethnopsychology --- Self-perception --- Indians in popular culture --- Powwows --- Museum exhibits --- Gambling on Indian reservations --- Public opinion --- Indian gaming --- Indian reservations --- Display techniques --- Displays, Museum --- Museum displays --- Museums --- Exhibitions --- Museum techniques --- Pow wows --- Festivals --- Popular culture --- Self-concept --- Self image --- Self-understanding --- Perception --- Self-discrepancy theory --- Self-evaluation --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Public opinion. --- Psychology. --- Ethnic identity. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Race identity