Vaudeville Indians on Global Circuits: 1880s-1930s

Vaudeville Indians on Global Circuits tracks how Native performers moved through entertainment networks from the 1880s to the 1930s. The book focuses on touring circuits and cross-border circulation, showing how Indigenous identities were staged, marketed, and interpreted in mainstream popular culture. By connecting performance history to transnational media and economic networks, it explains how global vaudeville shaped public understandings of Native people and how those performances created new cultural and professional possibilities while reinforcing stereotypes.