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We had a little real estate problem: the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy
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Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
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From the Book - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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 Chalepha pays the price for correcting 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 grandma 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 Hebert listens to Jeff Foxworthy on her walkman
Jim Thrope 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 brainwashes the kids
Lucas Brown Eyes sell 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 a 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 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 Canadian 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.
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9781982103033
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