Book jacket image for We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff

Simon & Schuster

9781982103057

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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

Kliph Nesteroff’s extraordinary and richly researched We Had a Little Real Estate Problem chronicles the legacy of Native American comedy.

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Review of ‘We Had a Little Real Estate Problem’

Native Americans have had an image problem for as long as non-­Native people have had a say in it, from the Pilgrims to P.T. Barnum to Andrew Jackson to Hollywood movie producers. In the media, Indigenous people have been cast as savage, ignorant and unfunny, except as the butt of jokes. There is a sad…

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