Dancing at Halftime

American sports fans love to don paint and feathers to cheer on the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, the Florida State Seminoles, and the Warriors and Chiefs of their hometown high schools. But outside the stadiums, American Indians aren't cheering - they're yelling "racism". While American Indian Movement protestors burn effigies, she listens to both activists and the fans who resent their attacks. Inside hearing rooms and high schools, she poses questions to linguists, lawyers, and university alumni. This book reminds readers that in America Indians are often symbolic servants, functioning as mascots and metaphors that express other Americans' longings to become "native" Americans, and to feel at home in their own land.