A consortium of German developers shows up on the fictional Otter Lake Reserve with a seemingly irresistible offer to improve the local economy the creation of ampampquotOjibway Worldampampquot a Native theme park designed to attract European tourists causing hilarious personal and political divisions within the local community.The Berlin Blues concludes Drew Hayden Taylors Blues quartet showcasing contemporary stereotypes of First Nations people including a fair number that originate from Indigenous communities themselves to the often outraged delight of his international audiences.Yet Europeans and other ethnic groups are not exempt from Taylors incisive but goodhumoured caricatures. Central to the motivation of these German developers are the hugely successful and bestselling adventure novels of the German author Karl May whose work Adolf Hitler recommended as ampampquotgood wholesome reading for all ages.ampampquot Written in the early twentieth century they popularized Rousseaus image of Indigenous peoples as ampampquotNoble Savagesampampquot among European and especially German youth and have led to the creation of Karl May theme parks all over central Europe where adult tourists can shed their inhibitions and play Cowboys and Indians with a seriousness as ridiculous as it is abandoned. This is identity politics stripped of its politically correct hyperseriousness and dramatized to its absurd and ultimately hilarious conclusion.The Berlin Blues premiered in Los Angeles at Native Voices in February 2007 touring to New York at the Museum of the American Indian and then to the museum in Washington D.C.