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Book SynopsisRepresentations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history.
Table of Contents* List of Illustrations * Introduction: The Pursuit of Livelihood and the Production of Language * Inventing the Hunter State: Iroquois Livelihood in Jeffersonian America * Narratives of Decline and Disappearance: The Changing Presence of American Indians in Early Natchez * The Discourse over Poverty: Indian Treaty Rights and Welfare Policy * Perceptions of Authenticity and Passivity: Indian Basket Making in Post-Civil War Louisiana * Primitivism and Tourism: Indian Livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico * Conclusion * Notes * Acknowledgments
