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The Wooden Indian Bar at the Americana Hotel in New York City closed in 1972 after a protest.

In the dominant culture outside the reservation, Native people are either invisible or stand as token monuments when they are visible, like the wooden Indian outside of a cigar store — always present, but never part of the fabric of a living, breathing community.

“An honest-to-goodness spy!” cried Lettie as the three of us crouched behind the wooden Indian in front of the hardware store.

He had a wooden Indian outside his store which stood in a threatening stance on a wooden block.

Originally built in 1747 and rebuilt in the 1940s, the Tadoussac Hotel offers views of the harbor and a small wooden “Indian Chapel.”