The Enduring Seminoles

Provides significant contextual information from a Native perspective that undermines facile assumptions about Indians as passive victims of an exploitative tourism industry, contributing to ongoing postcolonial debates about similar phenomena worldwide. - Journal of American History ""What West makes most clear is that the Natives quickly perceived the degree to which the tourists valued dramatic displays and they adapted the process over the years to serve their own economic ends."" - Florida Historical Quarterly ""Should make some scholars look again at what they thought were the effects of commercial enterprises on the lives of American Indian people."" - American Indian Quarterly