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University of Toronto Press The Land of Open Doors
Book SynopsisThe letters collected in this volume preserve the vivid and thoughtful impressions of a young man who came to western Canada in the early twentieth century. J. Burgon Bickersteth joined the Anglican mission in Edmonton a year after its establishment in 1910. As a lay missionary he travelled in the country northwest of Edmonton for two years, during the first year among homesteaders, and in the second among railroad builders. In his letters to friends and relatives in England he described the land he found so captivating and ‘life in the raw’ as he witnessed it day by day. He wrote ‘of some discomfort, of occasional hardships, but most certainly of absorbing interest and unique opportunity.’ On his return to England in 1913 he was encouraged to publish his letters by Lord Grey, the recently retired governor-general of Canada. The Land of Open Doors appeared the next year, with the letters edited only for factual errors and punctuation. For this reprin
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University of Toronto Press The Conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian
Book Synopsis The movement of one cultural group into the territory of another has always produced conflict: a conflict which is resolved at times by the obliteration of one group, but more often by a gradual fusion of elements drawn from both. This study examines the conflict between the Europeans and the Indians precipitated by the arrival of the French in the New World. The Indians were necessarily affected by the fur trade and the religious and social development of New France, and the meeting of contrary cultures resulted in most cases in the obliteration of that of the Indian. However, a fusion of Indian and European elements sometimes occurred, resulting in the birth of a ‘Canadian’ culture. The process has been repeated with the immigration of every new cultural group to Canada. This study analyses the conflict and traces the fusion of Canadian culture in its initial stage. First published in 1937, the book has proved an importance contribution to an area of early Can
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University of Toronto Press Eastern and Western Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe Atlantic Canada and Western Canada Studies Conferences have focused attention in recent years on the culture and development of two widely separated regions which have been frequently ignored in studies of the Canadian nation. The Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, meeting in 1974 and 1976 at the University of New Brunswick, and the Western Canadian Studies Conference, meeting annually since 1968 at the University of Calgary, have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the identities and characteristics of these two hinterlands. In 1978 the two conferences met jointly, in a session in Fredericton and one at Calgary with a core of speakers and papers common to both. The purpose was to compare and contrast subjects and experiences of interest and concern in the west and in Atlantic Canada. The ten papers which comprise Eastern and Western Perspectives are selected from twenty-seven presented at the joint conference.The topic chosen not on
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University of Toronto Press In the National Interest
Book SynopsisOne of the cornerstones of Canadian culture, the National Film Board has throughout its history mirrored the social issues that preoccupy Canadians. Gary Evans traces the development of the postwar NFB, picking up the story where he left it at the end of his earlier work, John Grierson and the National Film Board: The Politics of Wartime Propaganda.Evans points out that although Ottawa has not meddled in the operation of the NFB, outside stimuli have regularly forced the Film Board to reassess its mandate, a process which often has brought about as much confusion as light. For example, the unbridled optimism and expansion of the fifties and sixties led to English Production's desire for 'democratization' of programming, an end to the power of executive producers, and an expansion of the Film Board's core of permanent employees, all of which nearly caused the organization to founder. On the French side, despite the filmmakers' preference for the feature film rather thTrade Review'In the National Interest does a good job of tracing the connections from art to geo-politics and beyond; in so doing, it evokes the resonances of an era. This book will prove to be a valuable first resource for students of film and the NFB.' Books in Canada 'Until now we have had no historical work as detailed and precise in its treatment of the highs and lows of this unique cinematographical institution. Gary Evans book fills the gap.' Factuel 'The book is so accurate in its research that even NFB officials are rumoured to be generally satisfied.' Canadian Book Review Annual
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University of Toronto Press Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution
Book SynopsisThe French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris – to the revolution's aftermath.Women were denied citizenship in the new state, but they were not apolitical. In Paris, collective female activity promoted a controlled economy as women struggled to secure an adequate supply of bread at a reasonable price. Rural women engaged in collective confrontation to undermine government religious policy which was destroying the networks of traditional Catholic charity.Hufton examines the motivations of these two groups, the strategies they used to advance their respective causes, and the bitter misogyinistic lega
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University of Toronto Press Discounted Labour
Book SynopsisThe years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access to better jobs. Discounted Labour analyses the historical roots of women''s persistent inequality in the paid labour force. Ruth A. Frager and Carmela K. Patrias analyse how and why women became confined to low-wage jobs, why their work was deemed less valuable than men''s work, why many women lacked training, job experience, and union membership, and under what circumstances women resisted their subordination.Distinctive earning discrepancies and employment patterns have always characterized women''s place in the workforce whether they have been in low-status, unskilled jobs, or in higher positions. For this reason, Frager and Patrias focus not only on women wage-earners buTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction Part I: Image versus Reality * Industrial Capitalism and Women's Work * White Collars * In Times of Crisis Part II: Confronting the Disjuncture * Social Reform and Regulation * Resistance and Its Limits Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of Toronto Press The Workers Revolt in Canada 19171925
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University of Toronto Press At Odds
Book SynopsisUsing a rich variety of historical sources, Suzanne Morton traces the history of gambling regulation in five Canadian provinces – Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and B.C. – from the First World War to the federal legalization in 1969. This regulatory legislation, designed to control gambling, ended a long period of paradox and pretence during which gambling was common, but still illegal.Morton skilfully shows the relationship between gambling and the wider social mores of the time, as evinced by labour, governance, and the regulation of 'vice.' Her focus on the ways in which race, class, and gender structured the meaning of gambling underpins and illuminates the historical data she presents. She shows, for example, as "Old Canada" (the Protestant, Anglo-Celtic establishment) declined in influence, gambling took on a less deviant connotation – a process that continued as charity became secularized and gambling became a lucrative fund
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MY - University of Toronto Press Medieval Families
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University of Toronto Press Founding Fathers
Book SynopsisThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an unprecedented wave of public celebration of the past. Throughout the western world, heroes and great events from earlier times were celebrated through such devices as staging lavish parades, constructing intricately designed monuments, and mounting theatrical re-enactments of pivotal moments in history. In Quebec, two individuals occupied centre stage. Between 1878 and 1908, Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec City (and often referred to as the lay father of French-Canadian civilization), and Mgr François de Laval, the first bishop of Quebec (and often seen as French Canada's religious father), were feted in four commemorative mega-events staged in the streets of Quebec City.Based largely upon the archival documents left behind by the lay and ecclesiastical leaders who organized the celebrations of Champlain and Laval, Ronald Rudin's study describes the complicated process of staging these spectacles. The va
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University of Toronto Press Soldiers of Christ Preaching in Late Medieval
Book SynopsisLarissa Taylor has examined over 1600 sermons given by the leading lay preachers in France between 1460 and 1560, and examines the social context of preaching and the sermon while reconstructing popular attitudes towards original sin, free will, purgatory, the Devil, the sacraments, and the magical arts.
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MY - University of Toronto Press Christian Churches and Their Peoples 18401965 A Social History of Religion in Canada
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University of Toronto Press Civilization and Democracy The Salvernini
Book SynopsisThe selection of original pieces presented in this translation is preceded by an introduction by the editors, Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, which guides the reader through Cattaneo's thinking and puts it in a comparative context. Ultimately, however, it is the editors' goal to let this profound Italian thinker speak for himself.
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University of Toronto Press Womens Writing in Canada
Book SynopsisThis study discusses the influences, crossovers, and multiple genres through which women writers represent a changed and changing Canada.Trade Review"Patricia Demers, an established scholar of early modern literature and gender, has turned more recently to an extensive examination of gender and national literature with Women’s Writing in Canada, an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century and contemporary writing in Canada, with some nods to pre-1950s women in the field." -- Stephen Cain, York University * The Canadian Historical Review *"With impressive critical acuity and obvious enthusiasm, Patricia Demers has a range of Canadian female artists in print, film, and music, each contributing to the national story. Non-Canadians interested in the cultural field will be richly informed." -- Patricia Keeney, York University * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Imag(in)ing the National Terrain from the Mid-twentieth Century to the Sesquicentennial Approaching National Literature Women in the Linked Roles of Reading and Writing The Commissions: From Massey to Truth and Reconciliation From Total Refusal and the Quiet Revolution to Cultural Accommodation New Images of Movement and Diversity Fiction Prospects at Mid-Century Wrestling with the Strictures of Marriage and Family Revolutionary Talents and Experiments Flowering Careers in the Sixties Trajectories of Celebrity: Munro and Atwood The Tangle of Domesticity and Independence Rhizomes of Sexuality, Nation, Race, and Ethnicity Extensions in 2017 Film Original Screenplays Adaptations of Women’s Writing in Canada Documentaries Poetry Jaques, Livesay, Waddington, and Page: "fired in the kiln of endurance" P.K. Page: Onlooker and Participant Wilkinson, Brewster, Avison, and Macpherson: "clearing the hurdles of sleep" MacEwen and Atwood: "the slow striptease of our concepts" Webb, Lowther, Marlatt, and Brossard: "the way any of us are tangled in the past" Tostevin, Brand, Halfe, and Dumont: "their fragile, fragile symmetries of gain and loss" Crozier, Moure, Zwicky, Carson, Michaels, Bolster, and Shraya: "the truth likes to hide out in the open" Karen Solie: "poetic hipster" Music Folk Singers Reclaiming Traditions Punk, Pop, and Country Adult Contemporary Styling Drama Ringwood: Canadian Drama’s Foremother Joudry, Hendry, and Simons: Examining Emotions Pollock and Bolt: Re-viewing History and Power Politics Sharon Pollock: "meaning through the making of theatre" Ritter, Glass, Clark, and Lill: Enacting Vulnerabilities Thompson and MacDonald: Performing Marginalization and Shape-Shifting Judith Thompson: "through the looking glass, darkly" Gale, Sears, Mojica, Cheechoo, Nolan, and Clements: Recording "Documemories" MacLeod, Moscovitch, and Chatterton: Exploring Impasses Writing for Children Fiction about Children and Young Adults Other Times and Space of Fantasy Illustrated Narratives Non-fiction Memoirists and Autobiographers Commentators on Our World Advisors and Observers Conclusion Timeline Notes Works Cited Credits Index
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MY - University of Toronto Press Canadas Jews
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University of Toronto Press Womens Writing in Canada
Book SynopsisThis study discusses the influences, crossovers, and multiple genres through which women writers represent a changed and changing Canada.Trade Review"Patricia Demers, an established scholar of early modern literature and gender, has turned more recently to an extensive examination of gender and national literature with Women’s Writing in Canada, an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century and contemporary writing in Canada, with some nods to pre-1950s women in the field." -- Stephen Cain, York University * The Canadian Historical Review *"With impressive critical acuity and obvious enthusiasm, Patricia Demers has a range of Canadian female artists in print, film, and music, each contributing to the national story. Non-Canadians interested in the cultural field will be richly informed." -- Patricia Keeney, York University * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Imag(in)ing the National Terrain from the Mid-twentieth Century to the Sesquicentennial Approaching National Literature Women in the Linked Roles of Reading and Writing The Commissions: From Massey to Truth and Reconciliation From Total Refusal and the Quiet Revolution to Cultural Accommodation New Images of Movement and Diversity Fiction Prospects at Mid-Century Wrestling with the Strictures of Marriage and Family Revolutionary Talents and Experiments Flowering Careers in the Sixties Trajectories of Celebrity: Munro and Atwood The Tangle of Domesticity and Independence Rhizomes of Sexuality, Nation, Race, and Ethnicity Extensions in 2017 Film Original Screenplays Adaptations of Women’s Writing in Canada Documentaries Poetry Jaques, Livesay, Waddington, and Page: "fired in the kiln of endurance" P.K. Page: Onlooker and Participant Wilkinson, Brewster, Avison, and Macpherson: "clearing the hurdles of sleep" MacEwen and Atwood: "the slow striptease of our concepts" Webb, Lowther, Marlatt, and Brossard: "the way any of us are tangled in the past" Tostevin, Brand, Halfe, and Dumont: "their fragile, fragile symmetries of gain and loss" Crozier, Moure, Zwicky, Carson, Michaels, Bolster, and Shraya: "the truth likes to hide out in the open" Karen Solie: "poetic hipster" Music Folk Singers Reclaiming Traditions Punk, Pop, and Country Adult Contemporary Styling Drama Ringwood: Canadian Drama’s Foremother Joudry, Hendry, and Simons: Examining Emotions Pollock and Bolt: Re-viewing History and Power Politics Sharon Pollock: "meaning through the making of theatre" Ritter, Glass, Clark, and Lill: Enacting Vulnerabilities Thompson and MacDonald: Performing Marginalization and Shape-Shifting Judith Thompson: "through the looking glass, darkly" Gale, Sears, Mojica, Cheechoo, Nolan, and Clements: Recording "Documemories" MacLeod, Moscovitch, and Chatterton: Exploring Impasses Writing for Children Fiction about Children and Young Adults Other Times and Space of Fantasy Illustrated Narratives Non-fiction Memoirists and Autobiographers Commentators on Our World Advisors and Observers Conclusion Timeline Notes Works Cited Credits Index
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University of Toronto Press The Gargantuan Polity
Book SynopsisThe Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which allowed rulers to hold power due to approval of their subjects.Trade Review'Anyone interested in the classical tradition in Renaissance France would find much material to interest them... The Gargantuan Polity is every welcome, especially by virtue of bringing to light neglected legal, political and religious writings and placing these within a clear and helpful argumentative framework.' -- Hugh Roberts International Journal of the Classical Studies, vol 17:02:2010 'The Gargantuan Polity is powerfully argued, presenting a clear and original thesis that provides a helpful corrective to the cliche of the rise of the self.' -- Hugh Roberts International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol 17:02:2010
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University of Toronto Press Jewish People Yiddish Nation Noah Prylucki and
Book SynopsisUsing hitherto unexplored archival sources, memoirs, interviews, and materials from the vibrant interwar Jewish and Polish presses, Kalman Weiser investigates the rise and fall of Yiddishism and of Prylucki's political party in the post-World War I era.Trade Review'Jewish People, Yiddish is an especially important reminder of just how much "Russian Jewish" history cannot be told without sustained attention to the large Jewish population that lived in Russian Poland, one of the empire's least digestible and most important regions, and to the numerous other Russian Jews outside Congress Poland.' -- Kenneth B. Moss The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 84:2:2012 'This important and impressively researched political biography, contributes greatly to our understanding of the lives of east European nationalist leaders and the issues they championed.' -- Sean Martin H-Poland, January 2015 'Weiser's book is to be commended for its meticulous historical research.' -- Gali Drucker Bar-Am Jews and Their Foodways: Studies in Contemporary Jewry, an annual vol 28: 2015
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University of Nebraska Press The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890
Book SynopsisOffers an account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance. This book presents the views and observations of Indian agents, the US Army, missionaries, the mainstream press, and Congress.Trade Review"Well written and researched, this is a landmark book on the Lakota ghost dance and Wounded Knee."—M. J. Van de Logt, CHOICE"Finnish scholar Rani-Henrik Andersson has written what should be the first stop for those approaching the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee tragedy for the first time and a must-read addition to the literature for those familiar, or who think they are familiar, with them."—Todd M. Kerstetter, Nebraska History"The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 is highly recommended for all those wishing to learn more about this exceedingly important chapter in Native American–white relations."—Harvey Markowitz, Journal of American History"[The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890] demonstrates how understanding a particular tribe's culture is fundamental in comprehending and writing its history."—David Christensen, Studies in American Indian Literatures"This work is impressive in its detail and consistent in its manner of presentation. . . . I am certain The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 will become a primary reference text on the subject, accessible to scholars and popular readers alike."—Lee Irwin, Great Plains Quarterly"[The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890] is the most comprehensive study of the Ghost Dance to date and it offers an intriguing new look at the events that developed at the Lakota agencies in 1890 and the ensuing tragedy at Wounded Knee. Scholars and the public will find much of interest in Andersson's lively book."—Mark R. Ellis, New Mexico Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIllustrations, maps and tablesAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Wanáõi Wachípi këChapter 3: The Indian Agents and the Lakota Ghost DanceChapter 4: “To Protect and Suppress Trouble”Chapter 5: Missionary Views on the Lakota Ghost DanceChapter 6: “In an Atmosphere Pregnant With Mysteries”Chapter 7: The United States Congress and the Ghost DanceChapter 8: Toward “A Great Story” of the Lakota Ghost DanceAppendicesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Survivance
Book SynopsisArgues that many people in the world are enamoured with and obsessed by the concocted images of the Indian - the simulations of indigenous character and cultures as essential victims. This anthology discusses the themes and practices of survivance in literature, exploring the manifestations of survivance in a variety of contexts.Trade Review"This skillfully edited work is invaluable to academic discussions of Vizenor's ideas; it presents insights into his original concept of survivance and examinations of the variety of contexts to which the concept may be applied."—Lisa Close, Great Plains QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Aesthetics of Survivance: Literary Theory and Practice Gerald Vizenor2. Why It's a Good Thing Gerald Vizenor Is Not an Indian Karl Kroeber3. Native Survivance in the Americas: Resistance and Remembrance in Narratives by Asturias, Tapahonso, and Vizenor Helmbrecht Breinig4. On Subjectivity and Survivance: Rereading Trauma through The Heirs of Columbus and The Crown of Columbus Deborah L. Madsen5. Playing Indian: Manifest Manners, Simulation, and Pastiche Ying-wen Yu6. William Apess: Storier of Survivance Arnold Krupat7. As Long as the Hair Shall Grow: Survivance in Eric Gansworth's Reservation Fictions Susan Bernardin8. The War Cry of the Trickster: The Concept of Survivance in Gerald Vizenor's Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point Alan Velie9. Shifting the Ground: Theories of Survivance in From Sand Creek and Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 Linda Lizut Helstern10. Total Apocalypse, Total Survivance: Nuclear Literature and/or Literary Nucleus--Melville, Salinger, Vizenor Takayuki Tatsumi11. Facing the Wiindigoo: Gerald Vizenor and Primo Levi Joe Lockard12. Tactical Mobility as Survivance: Bone Game and Dark River by Louis Owens John Gamber13. Ghosts in the Gaps: Diane Glancy's Paradoxes of Survivance James Mackay14. The Naked Spot: A Journey toward Survivance Diane Glancy15. Survivance in the Works of Velma Wallis James Ruppert16. Writing Survivance: A Conversation with Joseph Boyden Allan J. Ryan17. A Lantern to See By: Survivance and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Oklahoma Jace Weaver18. Survivance Memories: The Poetry of Carter Revard A. Robert LeeContributorsIndex
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University of Nebraska Press That Dream Shall Have a Name
Book SynopsisThe founding idea of “America” has been based largely on the expected sweeping away of Native Americans to make room for EuroAmericans and their cultures. In this authoritative study, David L. Moore examines the works of five well-known Native American writers and their efforts, beginning in the colonial period, to redefine an “America” and “American identity” that includes Native Americans.Trade Review"David Moore has spent his career studying Native American literature; That Dream Shall Have a Name distills many years of teaching, reading, and thinking. A signal contribution to Native American scholarship, it shines with wisdom, poignancy, and hope."—O. Alan Weltzien, Western American Literature"This book is an impressive study and a great contribution to our literary classrooms."—Leola Tsinnajinnie, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher EducationTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Fool SoldiersChapter 1 – “knowing it was to come”: Sovereignty as SacrificeChapter 2 – “a plethora of animistic factors immersed in ethereal realities”: Community as AnimismChapter 3 – “the soul of the Indian is immortal”: Identity as ChangeChapter 4 – “the creative ability of Indian people”: Authenticity as TranslationChapter 5 – The Last Laugh: Humor and Humanity in Native American PluralismConclusion: The Anxiety of Confluence: America’s Struggle with AuthenticityNotesBiographical AppendixBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Reservation Reelism
Book SynopsisIn this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous peoples. Raheja attempts to create positive representations in film that reflect the complex and vibrant experiences of Native peoples and communities.Trade Review"A fascinating resource for those interested in the history of Native Americans in film, the contradictions of racial visual representations, and the emergence of a Native filmmaking aesthetic."-J. Ruppert, Choice -- J. Ruppert Choice "Deeply researched and beautifully conceptualized and written, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of history, film, and indigenous cultural production."-Beth H. Piatote, Western Historical Quarterly -- Beth H. Piatote Western Historical Quarterly "Raheja's archival research and extensive references to relatively unknown films will prove useful to scholars of indigenous media and representational practices, as will the exposition of visual sovereignty, the work's strongest contribution that will be discussed and utilized for years to come." -Leighton C. Peterson, Journal of the American Ethnological Society -- Leighton C. Peterson Journal of the American Ethnological Society "Reservation Reelism is a very important read for anyone interested in Film Studies, Native American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies."-Jenell Navarro, Taylor and Francis Online -- Jenell Navarro Taylor and Francis Online "Reservation Reelism is a focused and innovative study and will be crucial reading for anyone working in Indigenous film and media studies."-Joanna Hearne, Studies in American Indian Literature -- Joanna Hearne Studies in American Indian Literature "This thoroughly researched book is a significant contribution to film studies... Raheja's theoretical inventions recommend Reservation Reelism not only to scholars of Native American history and film but also to all critics interested in portrayals of race in American popular culture."-Scott D. Emmert, Western American Literature -- Scott D. Emmert Western American LiteratureTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction/Chapter 1. Towards a Genealogy of Indigenous Film Theory: Reading Hollywood IndiansChapter 2. Ideologies of (In)visibility: Redfacing, Gender, and Moving ImagesChapter 3. Tears and Trash: Economies of Redfacing and the Ghostly IndianChapter 4. Prophesizing on the Virtual Reservation: Imprint and It Starts with a WhisperChapter 5. Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)Epilogue. Redfacing Redux
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University of Nebraska Press The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. The original and creative pedagogical method of teaching Omaha language through Omaha culture used in this textbook consists of a structured series of lesson plans.Trade Review"Taken as a whole, the volume represents an active guide to the intertwined language and culture of the Omaha people. It is an essential tool for anyone who wishes to begin the path to a fluency in the Omaha language as well as for others whose goals may be less ambitious, but who wish to know and appreciate the people of this important Native American nation."—Michael J. Smith, Nebraska History“This book, whose subject matter is critically important for any member of the Omaha Nation, can help a reader move from being someone who is simply looking to say a few words in Omaha to someone who can read, write, and speak Omaha at a conversational level. I consider it a major contribution to its field.”—Ryan Kasak, doctoral candidate in linguistics at Yale University
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University of Nebraska Press Serving Two Masters
Book SynopsisChaplain Richard M. Budd has made a welcome, concise, well written and researched contribution to an overlooked chapter in chaplain history. Anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how the professional and fully institutionalized chaplaincy of today''s military came about would do well by consulting Budd''s book. --Bradley L. Carter, On Point. Military chaplains have a long and distinguished tradition in the United States, but historians have typically ignored their vital role in ministering to the needs of soldiers and sailors. Richard M. Budd corrects this omission with a thoughtful history of the chaplains who sought to create a viable institutional structure for themselves within the U.S. Army and Navy that would best enable them to minister to the fighting men. Despite the chaplaincy''s long history of accompanying American armies into battle, there has never been consensus on its role within the military, among the churches, or even among chaplTrade Review“I recommend this book to all chaplains and assistants, but especially to those new in the Chaplain Corps. This book should be in the library and part of the reading list for the chaplain officer basic and 56M advanced individual training courses.”—Chaplain (LTC) Thomas C. Condry, The Army Chaplaincy“Richard Budd removes the veil and allows us to glimpse the birth and maturation of the military chaplaincy. For all those who desire to know how we got to where we are, Serving Two Masters is a must read.”—Matt Cox, Trinity Seminary Review"This book speaks effectively on two fields: the history of American professions and the history of military organization. . . . [it is] an important contribution to the understanding of the modernization of religion and military prefessionalism. . . . As an institutional and buureaucratic history of the chaplaincy, thgis book will likely set the standard for many years."—The Journal of American History"An important, overdue, and stimulating contribution to the institutional history of the American military. It is also a quality starting point for any scholars interested in researching other areas of the chaplaincy's long history."—Ohio History"Budd renders an insightful analysis of the chaplaincy's sixty-year struggle for professional recognition and integration into the U.S. military establishment."—Sean Scott, The Register of the Kentucky Historical SocietyTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Issues 2. Background: American Military Chaplaincy, 1607-1860 3. Civil War: Progress and Foretaste, 1861-18654. 4. Post-Civil War: Nadir and Turnaround, 1866-1898 5. Expansion: Transition and Integration, 1899-1917 6. World War I: Bureaucratization and Autonomy, 1917-1920 7. Summary: A Bureaucratized Profession Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index
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University of Nebraska Press One Vast Winter Count
Book SynopsisThis magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.Trade Review"A splendid overview of the Native American West to the end of the eighteenth century."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books -- Larry McMurtry New York Review of Books "Author of First Peoples and a distinguished Dartmouth historian, Calloway concentrates on the Indian experience from the Appalachians to the Pacific, in a time frame from prehistory to the 18th century. The scope is staggering, but Calloway masters it, demonstrating a remarkable command of a broad spectrum of historical, ethnographic and archaeological sources including printed material and oral traditions... One Vast Winter Count is both a major work in its own right and a magnificent first volume in Nebraska's new History of the American West series."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) Publishers Weekly
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Broken Treaties
Book SynopsisProvides a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree. Jill St. Germain argues that the “broken treaties” label has obscured the implementation experience of participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them.Trade Review"In challenging the long-honored "broken treaties tradition," Jill St. Germain has written a groundbreaking and welcome revision of the history of treaty- and reservation-making on both sides of the United States-Canadian border. . . . Broken Treaties is a must read for any scholar interested in the history of the Great Plains, federal policy, the western United States, western Canada, or Indigenous studies."—Laura Woodworth-Ney, Great Plains Quarterly"[Broken Treaties] is a strong piece of scholarship that joins the recent work of Jeffrey Ostler, David G. McCrady, and others in enhancing our historical understanding of a period and topic that has long been studied but frequently misinterpreted."—Akim D. Reinhardt, American Historical Review"Well written and researched from primary sources in both the United States and Canada, this volume reminds us how significant tribal sovereignty was and how it continues to inform tribal governments today." —Donald L. Fixico, Western Historical Quarterly"St. Germain has made an important contribution to a growing field of literature that emphasizes the active role taken by native statesmen in seeking to shape those crucial agreements that defined the straitened world left them at the end of the nineteenth century." —Kingsley M. Bray, Nebraska History"This study captivate the reader's attention with its sharp analysis based on extensive research and thorough command of the subject."—Janne Lahti, Canadian Journal of History"This is a complex, well-written, and carefully researched book that interprets one of the most enigmatic issues in the still-convoluted relationship between native and European peoples in North America: treaties and the treaty process."—Sidney L. Harring, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsMapsIntroduction: Broken Treaties 1. Separate Pasts2. Expectations and Promises3. Early Implementation Efforts in the United States, 1868-18714. Early Implementation Efforts in Canada, 1876-18785. Implementation in Earnest: The Treaty of 1868, 1871-18756. Implementation in Earnest: Treaty Six, 1879-18847. The Treaty of 1868 and the Peace Policy, 1875-18768. Treaty Six and the Northwest Rebellion, 1885ConclusionAppendix A: Treaty with the Sioux, 1868Appendix B: Treaties at Forts Carlton and Pitt, Number Six, 1876NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press George Washingtons War on Native America
Book SynopsisThe Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. George Washington's War on Native America recounts the tragic events on the forgotten western front of the American Revolution, a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America.Trade Review“[Mann’s book] serves as a powerful statement of the native side of a conflict which has been sugar coated for two centuries. . . . The book should be required reading for all students seeking to understand the conflict on the frontier that lasted until the late nineteenth century. Given the extensive documentation provided, it will serve as an extremely valuable reference for college students and authors.”—Walter Dunn, Journal of Military History“Mann’s grasp of primary sources makes her narrative one of the most detailed recent studies of the military campaigns in western Pennsylvania and New York during the American War of Independence.”—Patrick Spero, HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - "Niggur-in-Law to Old Sattan": How the West Was Really Won1 - "The Vile Hands of the Savages": Countdown to Total War, 1775-17782 - "Shooting Pigeons": The Goose Van Schaick Sweep through Onondaga, April 17793 - "The Wolves of the Forest": The Brodhead March up the Allegheny, August-September 17794 - "Extirpate Those Hell-Hounds from off the Face of the Earth": The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, 9 August-30 September 17795 - "Keep That Nest of Hornets Quiet": The Ohio Campaigns of 1779-17816 - "Two Mighty Gods with Their Mouth Wide Open": Settler Assaults on Ohio, 1782NotesBibliographyIndex
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press The Meskwaki and Anthropologists Action
Book SynopsisIlluminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. Drawing on interviews and archival records, this work tells the story from the viewpoint of the Meskwaki themselves. It also assesses the impact of Action Anthropology on the Meskwaki settlement.Trade Review"This inspiring reconsideration of an important moment in twentieth-century American anthropology is richly annotated, with an excellent index and bibliography and two appendices listing the participants in the project and the published works that emerged. The book leaves the reader with a better understanding of the possibilities for and complexities of collaborative ethnographic work."—Larry Nesper, Collaborative Anthropologies"Timely and appealing to social scientists and activists who continue to wrestle together with questions of values, leadership, and voice as they work toward new models of collaborative, transformative research."—Dana E. Powell, Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSeries Editors' IntroductionIntroductionChapter 1: Making the Modern Meskwaki NationChapter 2: Sol Tax and the Value of AnthropologyChapter 3: ‘Science Has to Stop Somewhere’Chapter 4: Action Anthropology and the Values QuestionChapter 5: 1954—Project Nadir and ReboundChapter 6: Fruits of Action AnthropologyEpilogueAppendix IAppendix IIBibliographyIndex
£48.60
University of Nebraska Press Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone
Book SynopsisExamines the shatter zone created in the colonial South through the interactions of American Indians and European colonists. This book assesses the shatter zone region as a whole and the varied ways in which Native peoples wrestled with an increasingly unstable world and worked to re-establish order.Trade Review"Editors Ethridge and Shuck-Hall have crafted a unique anthology on a little-studied subject: the very specific cause-and-effect relationships of European contact with the Mississippian world of eastern North America."—C. R. Kasee, Choice"This edited volume combines data from archaeology, anthropology, and history to provide one of the most complete syntheses available of the impact of European colonization on Native people in the American South."—Anthony Michal Krus, American Antiquity"This is an excellent snapshot of a welcome resurgence in sophisticated research on the pre- and early colonial South."—Lynn A. Nelson, American Historical Review"How did the complex Mississippian societies of the American South become the decentralized Indian societies of the eighteenth century? This volume's fifteen contributors answer that question anew by employing the concept of a "shatter zone" to identify the causes of instability and map its effects in time and place. Those achievements alone make Shatter Zone noteworthy."—Steven C. Hahn, Ethnohistory"Ethridge, through her introduction, has placed this history in dialogue with a diverse scholarship on colonialism both in North American and elsewhere in the early modern world. Perhaps now this pivotal period, no longer forgotten, will instead enjoy the wider scholarly interest that it deserves."—Joseph Hall, Journal of Southern History"Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone offers one of the most complete syntheses to date about colonization's impact on Southeastern Native societies. . . . The shatter zone approach and the book's multidisciplinary approach and multicausal view will offer scholars a useful guide to studying the transformation of Native worlds well beyond the Southern colonial era."—S. Matthew DeSpain, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of Contents1. Introduction: Mapping the Mississippian Shatter ZoneRobbie Ethridge 2. Events as Seen from the North: The Iroquois and Colonial Slavery William A. Fox 3. From Refugees to Slave Traders: The Transformation of the Westo Indians Maureen Meyers 4. "Caryinge awaye their Corne and Children": The Effects of Westo Slave Raids on the Indians of the Lower South Eric E. Bowne 5. Catawba Coalescence and the Shattering of the Carolina Piedmont, 1540--1675 Robin A. Beck Jr. 6. "Indians Refusing to Carry Burdens": Understanding the Success of Catawba Political, Military, and Settlement Strategies in Colonial Carolina Mary Elizabeth Fitts and Charles L. Heath 7. "The Greatest Travelers in America": Shawnee Survival in the Shatter Zone Stephen Warren and Randolph Noe 8. Tracing the Origins of the Early Creeks, 1050--1700 CENed J. Jenkins 9. Alabama and Coushatta Diaspora and Coalescence in the Mississippian Shatter Zone Sheri M. Shuck-Hall 10. Violence in a Shattered World Mathew H. Jennings 11. Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659--1715 John E. Worth 12. Shattered and Infected: Epidemics and the Origins of the Yamasee War, 1696--1715 Paul Kelton 13. Choctaws at the Border of the "Shatter Zone": Spheres of Exchange and Spheres of Social ValuePatricia Galloway 14. Shatter Zone Shock Waves along the Lower Mississippi Marvin D. Jeter 15. Picking up the Pieces: Natchez Coalescence in the Shatter Zone George Edward Milne Afterword: Some Thoughts on Further WorkRobbie EthridgeBibliography List of Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Book SynopsisThe occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native Americans and helped develop pan-Indian activism. This work examines the takeover, and tells the story of those who organized the occupation and those who participated.Trade Review“The book provides illuminating, behind-the-scenes looks at Alcatraz’s occupiers, the dreams that united them and realities that splintered them; the reaction of the Bay Area Native American community; and the White House efforts to solve a public relations dilemma. Included is an extensive summary of other Native American actions that grew out of the Alcatraz experience.”—Publishers Weekly“This important study of late-20th-century Indian issues is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers.”—Choice“Johnson presents a fine narrative that is both fresh and authoritative.”—American Indian Quarterly“Johnson provides an interesting and comprehensive account of the social and political context for the occupation, of the motivations and political aspirations of the occupiers, of daily life on Alcatraz during the occupation, of the U.S. government’s strategy to end the occupation, and the reasons for the eventual end of the occupation.”—Professional GeographerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword, by Donald L. FixicoIntroduction1. The Relocation Program, Urban Indians, and Alcatraz2. Urban Indian Unrest and the 1964 Occupation of Alcatraz3. Social Movements of the 1960s and Indian Leadership4. "We Hold the Rock!": The Indian Occupation5. The Occupation: Logistics and Support6. Voices from Alcatraz7. Trouble on Alcatraz8. Government Responses9. Removal from AlcatrazConclusion: Alcatraz: Catalyst for ChangeAfterwordAppendix: Summary of Major OccupationsBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Deerskins and Duffels The Creek Indian Trade
Book SynopsisDocuments the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern US. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society.Trade Review“A solid contribution to the history of the southern frontier. It will be the standard by which future scholarship on the topic is measured.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly“This well-written book is essential for understanding the mechanics and impact of European trade on the Creek and all Southeastern Indians.”—Ethnohistory“Will stand as a prominent landmark in the study of southeastern Indians during the colonial era. This book captures the importance and complexity of Creek trade with Anglo-America, shedding new light on the operation of the deerskin market and on its impact upon Indian society.”—William and Mary Quarterly“An important contribution to our understanding of the influence of the deerskin trade on Creek and Anglo-American relations in the eighteenth-century Southeast.”—Journal of Southern History“Enlightening and insightful. . . . [Braund’s work] raises questions and addresses issues of fundamental importance in our quest to understand the development of the American nation in the eighteenth century.”—Southern HistorianTable of ContentsIntroductionList of Illustrations and MapsSeries Editors' IntroductionPrefacePART I: PARTNERS IN TRADE1. The Eighteenth-Century Muscogulges2. Trade: "The Original Great Tye"3. Merchants to the MuscogulgesPART 2: HUNTING AND TRADING4. The Creeks as Producers for a Trade Economy5. Traders and Trading6. "Runagadoes" and the Regulation of the TradePART 3: THE TRADE AND ITS IMPACT ON NATIVE LIFE7. Consumerism and Its Consequences8. Politics and the Trade Alliance9. Old Needs and New Partners: The American Revolution and BeyondAppendix: Regulations for the Better Carrying on the Trade with the Indian Tribes in the Southern DistrictNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Lt. Charles Gatewood His Apache Wars Memoir
Book SynopsisLt Charles B Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth US Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures.Trade Review“The memoir is a fascinating read. To fill in missing details, Kraft has provided excellent commentary and footnotes. Readers will find invaluable Lt. Gatewood’s accounts of his service as chief of Apache scouts, commander of the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and later aide-de-camp to General Nelson Miles. . . . A welcome addition to the literature of the frontier army and Apache relations. . . . The book should provide students of military history and Native American studies a valuable primary source and fascinating chronicle of Apache life in the early reservation era.”—Mark Edwin Miller, Western Historical Quarterly"A treasture trove of information on the Apache Wars."—New Mexico Magazine“Gatewood was an excellent writer with narrative skill and his memoir makes interesting reading.”—Roundup Magazine“This is a haunting story. . . . A good one to add to your Apache Wars reading collection.”—Chronicle of the Old West"Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir is a unique and welcome supplement to American military history or Native American studies shelves."—James A. Cox, Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologue - The Adventure BeginsChapter One - Mismanagement and the Last OutbreakChapter Two - The Apache IndiansChapter Three - Military CommandantChapter Four - Civil ProblemsChapter Five - Gatewood and GeronimoEpilogue - Slow Fade to OblivionAppendix - Old Black Joe's DevilNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press Buffalo Tiger A Life in the Everglades
Book SynopsisBorn in a small village in the Everglades in 1920, Buffalo Tiger grew up immersed in the traditional customs and language of the Miccosukees. As the modern world encroached on the Miccosukees and the Everglades shrank around them, he became an energetic and outspoken leader of the community. This is the biography of a tireless leader.Trade Review“An excellent example of the ideal blending of Native viewpoint with Western academic literary demands.”—Choice“This book will make its way into the bookstores and into the syllabi of American Indian history courses. It also serves as a wonderful addition to the paucity of literature on Native people in Florida during the twentieth century. Readers will definitely enjoy learning about the life and times of Buffalo Tiger, and hopefully this collaborative effort will broaden our understanding of Native struggles for sovereignty and self-determination in an age of colonialism, ethnic strife, and environmental devastation.”—Jeffrey P. Shepard, Studies in American Indian Literatures“An important book that is both suitable as a teaching resource and provocative enough to spur further research.”—Nicolas Rosenthal, H-Net Reviews“This delightful autobiography opens a window into Miccosukee culture.”—Native Peoples MagazineTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsSeries Editors' IntroductionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Miccosukee Childhood2. My Beliefs3. Learning the White Man's Ways4. The Struggle for Recognition5. The Miccosukee Tribe6. Our Heritage, Our Life, Our FutureAfterword / The Importance of a LifeAppendix / Constructing a Life HistoryNotes Index
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University of Nebraska Press Smoke Signals
Book SynopsisThis in-depth introduction and analysis expands our understanding and deepens our enjoyment of a Native cinema landmarkTrade Review"Hearne's book is a cogent and valuable addition to the body of work on Smoke Signals and Native cinema. . . . Her extremely detailed reading of the film, her trenchant analysis of the strategies it uses to speak to multiple audiences, and her examination of the current state of Native cinema make this a valuable resource for both teachers and scholars."—Laura Beadling, Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsSeries Editors' IntroductionIntroduction: "A Way to Sit at the Same Table": Indigenizing Popular Culture1. "Indians Watching Indians": Speaking to and from Cinema History2. "The Storyteller Is Part of the Story": Making Smoke Signals3. "Dances with Salmon": Reading Smoke Signals4. "Take Your Dad's Pickup": Smoke Signals's ReceptionConclusion: "Be a Crazy Horse of Filmmaking": Smoke Signals and the Ongoing Production and Reception of Native CinemaAppendix: Remembering Smoke Signals: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman AlexieNotesBibliographyYouTube VideographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Contesting Knowledge
Book SynopsisIlluminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead.Trade Review"Regardless of one's ethnicity, affiliation or experience, museum professionals and public historians alike, especially those with little or no experience working with indigenous communities or other stakeholder audiences, will find this volume concerning an emerging aspect of museum practice valuable and worth exploring."—Kym S. Rice, Western American Literature"Contesting Knowledge will likely remain relevant for many years as the issues the authors present are ongoing and applicable to any tribal-centered exhibition or public museum collaboration."—Charles D. Chamberlain III, Ethnohistory"These essays demonstrate that Native peoples across North America and Africa are using museums to rectify a legacy of conquest. As such, scholars and educators in the fields of anthropology, American Indian studies, and museum studies will find this collection of essays especially useful."—Jennifer Fish Kashay, Western Historical Quarterly"This collection is an important part of the conversations taking place in Indigenous studies and beyond."—Elizabeth Archuleta, Studies in American Indian Literatures"This book is valuable because it contains both external and internal synopses of cultural convictions, public history motivations, and organizational conventions which operate to situate an object in its "best position.""—Alphine W. Jefferson, Public HistorianTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsContesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives / Susan Sleeper-SmithPart 1: Ethnography and the Cultural Practices of MuseumsIntroduction: The Legacy of Ethnography / Ray Silverman1. Elite Ethnography and Cultural Eradication: Confronting the Cannibal in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil / Hal Langfur2. Ethnographic Showcases as Sites of Knowledge Production and Indigenous Resistance / Zine Magubane3. Reinventing George Heye: Nationalizing the Museum of the American Indian and Its Collections / Ann McMullen4. Ethnographic Elaborations, Indigenous Contestations, and the Cultural Politics of Imagining Community: A View from the District Six Museum in South Africa / Ciraj RassoolPart 2: Curatorial Practices: Voices, Values, Languages, and TraditionsIntroduction: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives on Curatorial Practice / Jacki Thompson Rand5. A Dialogic Response to the Problematized Past: The National Museum of the American Indian / Miranda J. Brady6. West Side Stories: The Blending of Voice and Representation through a Shared Curatorial Practice / Brenda Macdougall and M. Teresa Carlson7. Huichol Histories and Territorial Claims in Two National Anthropology Museums / Paul Liffman8. The Construction of Native Voice at the National Museum of the American Indian / Jennifer ShannonPart 3: Tribal Museums and the Heterogeneity of the Nation-StateIntroduction: Creation of the Tribal Museum / Brenda J. Child9. Tsiniyukwalihot, the Oneida Nation Museum: Creating a Space for Haudenosaunee Kinship and Identity / Kristina Ackley10. Reimagining Tribal Sovereignty through Tribal History: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Klamath River Region / Brian Isaac Daniels11. Responsibilities toward Knowledge: The Zuni Museum and the Reconciling of Different Knowledge Systems / Gwyneira Isaac12. Museums as Sites of Decolonization: Truth Telling in National and Tribal Museums / Amy Lonetree / ContributorsIndex 000
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University of Nebraska Press Southern Ute Women
Book SynopsisShows how Ute women accommodated Anglo ways that benefited them but refused to give up indigenous culture and ways that gave their lives meaning and bolstered personal autonomy.Trade Review“[Southern Ute Women] makes a useful contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Native American women.”—Sara H. Hill, American Historical Review“Historians of American Indians have devoted insufficient attention to the distinctive experiences of Native American women, although in recent years a number of scholars have made strides in reversing that trend. With Southern Ute Women, Katherine Osburn helps redress this gap in the historiography. . . . A thoughtful, incisive, and well-written monograph that does much to further our understanding of the dynamic lives of Native American women in the allotment era.”— Steve Amerman, Western Historical Quarterly“A well-researched, clearly written account that adds to our understanding of the power dynamic between a dominating federal government and a subordinate, but not completely coerced, reservation population.”— Sherry L. Smith, Agricultural HistoryTable of ContentsMapsTablesAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionCHAPTER ONE - The People of the Shining MountainsCHAPTER TWO - Women and Public LeadershipCHAPTER THREE - Women and EconomicsCHAPTER FOUR - HomemakingCHAPTER FIVE - Sex and MarriageConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Skylark Meets Meadowlark
Book SynopsisA study of the literary image of the bird in both British Romantic and contemporary Native American literature.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Birds of a Feather: Avians, Indigenes, Animal Rights, and Ecology 2. Wandering Voices: The Avian Other from Cowper to Wordsworth 3. Blithe Spirit and Immortal Bird: The Avian Other from Wordsworth to Clare 4. The Eagle and the Crow: Avian Returns in Native American Literature 5. A Beatitude of Birds: Contemporary Native Poetry Epilogue: The Avian Speaks Back Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Tlingit Indians in Russian America 17411867
Book SynopsisThe Tlingits, the largest Indian group in Alaska, have lived in Alaska's coastal southwestern region for centuries and first met non-Natives in 1741 during an encounter with the crew of the Russian explorer Alexei Chirikov. This title outlines a picture of traditional Tlingit society before contact with Europeans.Trade Review“Andrei Grinev’s monograph, a substantial revision of his similarly titled Russian publication of 1991, is a welcome addition to the literature on Tlingit-European contact during the Russian colonial period in Alaska.” —Katherine L. Arndt, Western Historical Quarterly“This meticulous record of Russian-Tlingit relations adds considerably to our knowledge of Russian imperial borderland frontiers. Despite his overall concern with social and economic forces, Grinev does personalize his account by bringing into this narrative individual Russians and Indians, the participants of the colonial encounter. He also uses Tlingit oral tales as sources. Finally, he closes the book with an excellent documentary supplement, which includes translations of Russian archival sources dealing with the Tlingit.”—Andrei A. Znamenski, Russian Review“The book will be very useful for scholars and graduate students interested in Northwest Coast Indian history and anthropology, Russian empire history, colonial borderlands history, and Alaska history and anthropology. The maps, charts, notes, and appendix are excellent, particularly the latter, which contains translated archival documents.”—Erik Hirschmann, Alaska History"A significant contribution to Native American studies."—Lucien J. Frary, Journal of the Early Republic"Scholars who wish to more closely examine certain aspects of Tlingit/European contact will appreciate this comprehensive work."—Ann R. Myhre, Material CultureTable of Contents1: The Tlingit Indians Prior to contact with Europeans; 2: The History of Tlingit Relations with Europeans in Russian America; 3: The Influence of European Contacts on Tlingit Culture in Russian America
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University of Nebraska Press Burst of Breath Indigenous Ritual Wind
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instruments - including flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistles - played in sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America.Trade Review"This well-conceived and very well executed volume marks a major advance in discussions of the significance of aerophones and sound over a large area of South America."—Anthony Seeger, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Overture Jonathan D. Hill and Jean-Pierre ChaumeilFirst Movement: Natural Sounds, Wind Instruments, and Social Communication1. Speaking Tubes: The Sonorous Language of Yagua Flutes Jean-Pierre Chaumeil2. Leonardo, the Flute: On the Sexual Life of Sacred Flutes among the Xinguano Indians Rafael José de Menezes Bastos3. Soundscaping the World: The Cultural Poetics of Power and Meaning in Wakuénai Flute Music Jonathan Hill4. Hearing without Seeing: Sacred Flutes as the Medium for an Avowed Secret in Curripaco Masculine Ritual Nicolas Journet5. Flutes in the Warime: Musical Voices in the Piaroa World Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez6. Desire in Music: Soul-Speaking and the Power of Secrecy Marcelo FioriniSecond Movement: Musical Transpositions of Social Relations7. Archetypal Agents of Affinity: "Sacred" Flutes in the Guianas? Marc Brightman8. From Flutes to Boom Boxes: Traditions of Musical Symbolism and Change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana Stephanie W. Alemán9. From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes Acácio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade10. The Ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawoká Flutes Maria Ignez Cruz Mello11. Spirits, Ritual Staging, and the Transformative Power of Music in the Upper Xingu Region Ulrike Printz12. An "Inca" Instrument at a "Nawa" Feast: Marubo Flutes and Alterity in Amazonian Context Javier Ruedas13. Arawakan Flute Cults of Lowland South America: The Domestication of Predation and the Production of Agentivity Robin WrightCoda: Historical and Comparative Perspectives14. Sacred Musical Instruments in Museums: Are They Sacred? Claudia Augustat15. Mystery Instruments Jean-Michel BeaudetContributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees
Book SynopsisAbridged edition of a diary written by Anna Rosina Gambold, a Moravian missionary to the CherokeeTrade Review"McClinton's excellent volume can be used in classrooms to highlight the effects of cultural change in an Indian community."—Adam Pratt, North Carolina Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Maps Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgments Editorial Policy Introduction Chapter 1. Significant Events and Themes at Springplace Mission between 1805 and 1821 Conversion, Moravian Style Principal Converts to the Moravian Church James Vann's Rejection of Christianity Annuity Distribution at Vann's Plantation Cherokee Education, Moravian Style Children's Illnesses at the Mission Removal of Children from the Mission School Rumors of Mistreatment of Students Runaway Students Rumors of Abductions Rumors of Hunger Children's "Errant" Behavior A Child's Death at the Mission Use of Alcohol Travelers and Notable Visitors Earthquakes Creek War of 181314 Chapter 2. Continuity of Traditional Cherokee Cultural Traits Cherokees' Concept of Land and Land Values Voices in Cherokee Councils Moravians and the U.S. Government Cherokee Agricultural Practices Cherokee Traditional Rituals and Contact with Christianity Trade Cherokee Law and Punishment Green Corn Ceremony Ball Play Cherokee Origin Stories Cherokees' Responses to Christian Images Epilogue Notes
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University of Nebraska Press Indians in Prison
Book SynopsisPresents comparative data on Indians incarcerated in other states and offer recommendations for dealing with recurrent problems. This title focus on how the social environments of Indian youth contribute to their delinquency and substance abuse and how Indians in prison perceive rehabilitation strategies, parole, and the law.Trade Review"The subject of Indians in prison is of great importance not only because of the increasing Native American population in prisons (and the consequences for Indian life) but because that population is so disproportionately high. This first book-length study of the subject surveys the topic comparatively, incorporating detail based on firsthand ethnographic study and at the same time the hard data necessary to make it a definitive survey. Thus it is a major contribution to the field of American Indian studies."—Raymond J. DeMallie, Indiana University
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press The Fast Runner
Book SynopsisOne of the most important Native films of all time, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner tells a powerful and moving story about honor, betrayal, vengeance, and redemption. This book takes readers behind the cameras, introducing them to the culture, history, traditions, and people that made this movie extraordinary.Trade Review"This book, the first in a series focusing on films made by indigenous peoples, gives the reader and filmgoer an intimate look behind the scenes of the film's genesis, the key players, and the financial and cultural challenges the producers faced. . . . This will be a welcome reference book for any serious student of film studies, regardless of genre."—Karl Kunkel, ForeWord "Isuma filmmakers have not only given outsiders the content to rethink preconceived ideas about life in the Arctic, but they have also presented this content in a way that is natural to an Inuit. Evans helps us move more fully into that space."—Kristin G. Congdon, Journal of American Folklore Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNoteSeries Editors' IntroductionIntroductionCharactersPronunciation of NamesChapter One: The Context of the CreationChapter Two: Seeing the UnseenChapter Three: The People and Path of IsumaChapter Four: Isuma’s MotivesChapter Five: The Legend and Its VariantsChapter Six: Reviews and AwardsChapter Seven: Lifeways as ContextChapter Eight: Local and Global EnvironmentsGlossaryNotesBibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Reserve Memories The Power of the Past in a
Book SynopsisExamines how myths and narratives about the past have enabled a Northern Athabaskan community to understand and confront challenges and opportunities in the present. This book focuses on the special power of the past for the Chilcotin people of the Nemiah Valley Indian Reserve.Trade Review"Intertwining anthropological and linguistic theory, translated Chilcotin passages, and engaging discussions of actual experience in the field, Reserve Memories offers much insight into the relationship between academic outsider and community insider. . . . Reserve Memories makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how First Nations communities conceptualize language and history."—Susan Roy, The Canadian Historical Review"The combination of ethnographic contextualization, detailed text analysis, and theoretical integration make the work an exemplary contribution to the study of North American Indian language use and to linguistic anthropology more broadly."—Jane Hill, Journal of Anthropological Research"This succinct and eloquent treatise warrants careful reading. . . . I envy Dinwoodie's linguistic acumen, and hope that he will return to the Chilcotin in the future and update us on the trajectory of Chilcotin myth and historical narration."—Antonia Mills, Anthropological Linguistics
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University of Nebraska Press Do You See What I Mean
Book SynopsisPlains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca among many Native American tribes of the Great Plains. Although some researchers thought it had disappeared following the widespread adoption of English, Brenda Farnell discovered that PST is still an integral component of the storytelling tradition in contemporary Assiniboine (Nakota) culture.Trade Review“What is struggling to emerge is a theoretical framework in which the way that the different modalities of communication are articulated with one another can be understood. This book should be read by all those with an interest in the development of such a framework.”—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“A major contribution to Native American studies, to cultural anthropology more generally, to linguistic anthropology, and to semiotics. . . . In one and the same book, Brenda Farnell reveals the power and precision of gesture in oral performance, makes major advances in the understanding of the storytelling process in general, and teaches us more about the world of Native Americans than we have learned in many a moon.”—James H. McNultyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Nineteenth-Century Legacy2. Bias against the Iconic3. Geographical and Historical Spaces: Assiniboine Territory and the Embodiment of Deixis4. Moral and Ethical Spaces: Naming Practices and Visual Imagery in Nakota and PST5. Getting to the Point: Spatial Orientation and Deixis in PST and Nakota6. Storytelling and the Embodiment of Symbolic Form7. The Primacy of Movement in Assiniboine Culture8. ConclusionsAppendix A. Phonetic KeyAppendix B. Kinetic KeyNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press The Canadian Sioux
Book SynopsisThe Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they have been largely neglected by anthropologists and historians and are the least well known of all the Sioux groups. This study by a long-time student of Sioux and other Indian cultures fillsthat gap in the literature. Based on fieldwork done in the 1970s supplemented by written sources, The Canadian Sioux presents a descriptive reconstruction of their traditional culture, many aspects of which are still practiced or remembered by Canadian Sioux today although long forgotten by their relatives in the United States. It is rich in detail and presents an abundance of new information on topics such as tribal divisions, documented history and traditional history, warfare, their economy, social life, philosophy and religion, and ceremonialism. Nearly half the book is devote
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University of Nebraska Press Defying Maliseet Language Death
Book SynopsisOffers an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Terminology and Orthography1. The Specter of Language Death2. "Tipping" toward Maliseet Language Death3. Programming Language Maintenance4. From Spoken Maliseet to Text5. Elementary Language Curriculum and Practice6. Death by Suicide7. Language and Being in Maliseet Worlds8. Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and IdentityNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Embracing Fry Bread Confessions of a Wannabe
Book SynopsisWhen he was out playing Indian, enacting Hollywood-inspired scenarios, it never occurred to the child Roger Welsch that the little girl sitting next to him in school was Indian. A lifetime of learning later, Welsch's enthusiasm is undimmed, if somewhat more enlightened. In Embracing Fry Bread Welsch tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Native American culture.Trade Review“If it can be said of anyone who is not an Indian (Native American, American Indian) that he or she has the ‘soul of an Indian,’ it has to be said of Roger Welsch. He offers the one thing that diverse groups of people, indeed the world, need to get along: understanding.”—Joseph Marshall III, author of The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Learning "Welsch's natural warmth and skill as a storyteller, and his obvious respect for the individuals he encounters, come through clearly in his writing, and it's easy to see why so many people, from so many backgrounds, might be honored to call him "friend.""—Publishers Weekly "Though an anthropology scholar, Welsch is never pedantic or preachy. Instead, this is a heartfelt and very personal story, rich in wry and self-deprecating humor."—Deborah Donovan, Booklist"Welsch's gratitude toward the Omahas and Pawnees is real, his outrage at their painful history is justified, and his story is proof that Native American culture is still alive and complex."—Kirkus"Welsch manifests himself as a listener who has spent fifty-five years involved in Native culture where he has made uncountable friends. His ability to write honest prose, both informative and erudite, captivates from the beginning."—Wynne Summers, Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. First, a Story2. Introduction3. A Beginning4. Beyond the Handgame5. History, Long and Short6. Who Are We?7. The Call of Curiosity, Keep the Change8. Enter the Wannabes9. What's in a Name10. Who Is "The Indian"?11. Who Is the Wannabe?12. The Contrary Lesson of the Prime Directive13. First Steps14. The Fix Is Out15. Indian Wannabes16. Gottabes17. Becoming New18. How It Goes, How It Went19. The Plot Thickens20. Why?21. Gottabes Again22. The Ways of Foodways23. Carnivores Forever24. Another World25. The Consequences of Incuriosity26. Symbols and Realities27. Indian Humor28. Names and Naming29. The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger of 187730. Names . . . and Names31. Matters of Faith32. Deduction/Induction33. What Is Indian Religion?34. The Sun Dance35. The Native Church36. Inside Native Religion37. Knowing What We Don't Know38. What History Teaches Us39. The Empty Frontier40. Indians Today41. Indians as Americans42. The Land43. The Real Wonder of It44. Eloquence45. From Presumed Inferiority to Rampant Egalitarianism46. Time47. Property and Gifts48. The Gift of Giving49. The Fabric of Sharing50. The Spirit of Giving51. Squaring the Circle52. So, How Different Are We?53. What We See54. Indians and Deeper Truths55. Conclusions56. Repositories of Wisdom57. What's in It for Indians?58. So You Wannabe a Wannabe?
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University of Nebraska Press Blood Will Tell
Book Synopsis Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of blood in shaping official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934 and how related exclusionary policies functioned to dispossess Native people of their land. The U.S. government’s unspoken assumption at the time was that Natives of mixed descent were undeserving of tribal status and benefits, notwithstanding that these people played crucial roles in the national implementation of allotment policy. Ellinghaus explores on-the-ground case studies of Anishinaabeg, Arapahos, Cherokees, Eastern Cherokees, Cheyennes, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Lakotas, Lumbees, Ojibwes, Seminoles, and Virginia tribes. Documented in these cases, the history of blood quantum as a policy reveals assimilation’s imTrade Review"Ellinghaus has taken a nuanced approach to an incredibly complex and wide-ranging topic with successful results. The book is thoroughly researched, well argued, and will be especially useful to scholars of nineteenth-century American Indian history and federal Indian policy."—Natalie Panther, Chronicles of Oklahoma"Blood Will Tell engages with and makes important contributions to the historical scholarship and contemporary political debates on race and citizenship in the academy, as well as in American Indian families, communities, and nations."—Jill Doerfler, American Historical Review"This book makes a significant contribution to how we interpret assumptions about ethnicity, skin color, and cultural behavior—from low-level civil servants to official ideology to indigenous notions of identity. It is a welcome addition to furthering our understanding of blood quantum and Native American policy."—Ryan W. Schmidt, Great Plains Quarterly"Blood Will Tell makes a brilliant and original contribution to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and settler colonialism in western American history and merits a wide readership."—Baligh Ben Taleb, Pacific Historical Review"Blood Will Tell is a valuable contribution to studies of the allotment era in particular and to studies of U.S.–American Indian relations and settler colonialism in general."—John R. Gram, Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Ellinghaus's work shines a light on a crucial component of federal Indian policy."—Christopher Steinke, Nebraska History“Ellinghaus utilizes an impressive amount of archival research and specific case studies to show how the concept of blood permeated the policies of the Office of Indian Affairs during [the late nineteenth and early twentieth century].”—Paul Spruhan, Canadian Journal of Native Studies "Ellinghaus offers this book as a means for critiquing and analyzing the phenomenon of settler colonialism which allowed for tropes of authenticity to persist to today. It also adds to the story of Native Americans' unrelenting resistance with racial science and white structures. In light of the semi-recent events at Standing Rock, Native American persistence throughout history is again highlighted by their ability to resist and act against their oppressors."—Hannah Blubaugh, Origins“Katherine Ellinghaus brilliantly traces the uneven practices that produced a powerful discourse of American Indian blood quantum. With sure hand and subtle interpretation, Blood Will Tell offers a compelling new reading of a technology of identity at once complicated and crude.”—Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of Indians in Unexpected Places“Written with great clarity and precision. . . . Ellinghaus develops several key insights that will make contributions to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and western American history.”—Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Discourse of Blood in the Assimilation Period 1. Fraud: The Allotment of the Anishinaabeg 2. Chaos: The Dawes Commission and the Five Tribes 3. Practically White: The Federal Policy of Competency 4. The Same Old Deal: The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act 5. Colored: The Indian Nations of Virginia and the 1924 Racial Integrity Act Conclusion: Writing Blood into the Assimilation Period Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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