Tales Of An Urban Indian

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Tonto, the Land O' Lakes butter lady, and other pop culture images of American Indians are flashed onto the wall at the very beginning of writer/performer Darrell Dennis' Tales of an Urban Indian, now at the Public Theater. Dennis then runs through a litany of misconceptions about contemporary Native peoples. "I can't shape shift, I've never had a vision, never heard the owl call my name," he intones. His solo show promises to offer up something less stereotypical. But while certain aspects of the script give us a different perspective on what he's termed the "Urban Indian," the show as a whole still resorts to the use of too many clichés.

Dennis inhabits the role of a young Indian m[...]