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We had a little real estate problem : the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy
"From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Simon & Schuster,
2021.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Jonny Roberts drives five hours to every gig and five hours back
- "Degrading, demoralizing, and degenerating"
- The 1491s in their underwear
- Vaudeville was fraud-ville
- Adrianne Chalepah pays the price for correcting her history teacher
- Will Rogers's grandpa is murdered in a vengeance killing
- Jonny Roberts is nervous in San Berdoo
- Will Rogers learns rope tricks from an enslaved person
- Jackie Curtiss breaks Ed Sullivan's foot
- Will Rogers takes a fateful flight with a one-eyed pilot
- Dakota Ray Herbert listens to Jeff Foxworthy on her Walkman
- Jim Thorpe demands only American Indians for American Indian parts
- From meteorology to the Upright Citizens Brigade with Joey Clift
- Will Rogers Jr.hated analogies to his father
- Charlie Hill orders a ventriloquist dummy
- Brian Bahe goes onstage twelve times a week
- Davy Crockett brainshwashes the kids
- Lucas Brown Eyes sells a sitcom pilot
- Charlie Hill is inspired by Bob Newhart and other political radicals
- Paul LIttlechief's only ambition is to be the "First American Indian comedian"
- The Trickster figure causes people to fart when they're most keen to impress
- F-Troop represents the f-word
- Williams and Ree perform for thirteen people at the Holiday Inn
- Charlie Hill and the bearded comedian in a rusty, red truck
- Williams and Ree are desperate to get on Carson
- Charlie Hill asks Barney Miller to free Leonard Peltier
- Jackie Keliiaa thinks, "Holy shit, this is amazing."
- Someone calls the cops on the 1491s
- Charlie Hill and the swimming number with Joe Namath
- Larry Omaha investigates a foul-mouthed parrot
- Terry Ree becomes the first (and last) Native American comedian on Hee-Haw
- Ryan McMahon has a life changing experience in Winnipeg (of all places)
- Charlie Hill isn't offered anything but crap
- The 1491s reluctantly agree to do a Shakespeare festival
- Sierra Ornelas sells sitcoms like it's the Santa Fe Indian Market
- Vincent Craig performs on the back of a flatbed truck
- Isiah Yazzie does improv for an empty room in Shiprock, New Mexico
- Howie Miller does impressions. Do you guys like impressions?
- The beef with Don Burnstick
- Marc Yaffee is weirded out by his own mother
- Jonny Roberts quits his job
- Netflix summons Adrianne Chalepah to Minnesota
- Elaine Miles assumes she was the first woman to do it
- Dallas Goldtooth rides his bicycle through Standing Rock and Sterlin Harjo mocks the hippies
- Those friendly Canadians send death threats to Williams and Ree
- Ralphie May starts a fight and then changes his mind
- Charlie Hill phones Mitzi Shore to say good-bye
- The 1491s get a standing ovation in a small Oregon town
- Jonny Roberts is stunned to see the literal writing on the wall.