David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of several books, including The Struggle for Self Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005) and is the coauthor with Rosalyn LaPier of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934 (Nebraska, 2015).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Overview: American Indians and Ethnology at the Fair
1. Fair Representation?
2. Evolution of the American Indian Displays at the Fair
Part 2. Before the Fair: Making Money at Home
3. Native People Collecting for the Fair
4. The Department of Ethnology Collecting for the Fair
5. Government Agencies Collecting for the Fair
Part 3. During the Fair: Working in Chicago
6. Working the Anthropological and Education Displays
7. Working the Commercial Displays
8. Those Left Out
Afterword/Afterward: American Indians and Their New World
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

David R. M. Beck is an award-winning historian and a professor in the University of Illinois Department of History. He was previously a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana for more than two decades. Beck is the author of several books, including The Struggle for Self Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005) and is the coauthor with Rosalyn LaPier of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934 (Nebraska, 2015).