Dustin Tahmahkera
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781469618685
- eISBN:
- 9781469618708
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618685.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Beginning with the iconic Indian Head test pattern, which followed television station sign-offs and preceded sign-ons from the mid-1940s through the 1970s, representations of Native Peoples have been ...
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Beginning with the iconic Indian Head test pattern, which followed television station sign-offs and preceded sign-ons from the mid-1940s through the 1970s, representations of Native Peoples have been a constant presence on TV. This book examines these representations, focusing on situational comedies of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Analyzing dozens of sitcoms from the United States and Canada, the book complicates assumptions that Native representations on TV are inherently stereotypical and escapist. From The Andy Griffith Show, The Brady Bunch, and Barney Miller to Different Strokes, King of the Hill, and Mixed Blessings, the sitcom has long integrated politics and social policy into its comforting format to communicate competing visions of “America” and indigenous-settler relations. Examining in detail indigenous portrayals, producers, and actors in sitcoms, the book underscores the complexity of Indian representations in the genre of the sitcom to show how such representations have been critical contributors to indigenous identities and relations between Natives and non-Natives.Less
Beginning with the iconic Indian Head test pattern, which followed television station sign-offs and preceded sign-ons from the mid-1940s through the 1970s, representations of Native Peoples have been a constant presence on TV. This book examines these representations, focusing on situational comedies of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Analyzing dozens of sitcoms from the United States and Canada, the book complicates assumptions that Native representations on TV are inherently stereotypical and escapist. From The Andy Griffith Show, The Brady Bunch, and Barney Miller to Different Strokes, King of the Hill, and Mixed Blessings, the sitcom has long integrated politics and social policy into its comforting format to communicate competing visions of “America” and indigenous-settler relations. Examining in detail indigenous portrayals, producers, and actors in sitcoms, the book underscores the complexity of Indian representations in the genre of the sitcom to show how such representations have been critical contributors to indigenous identities and relations between Natives and non-Natives.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677825
- eISBN:
- 9781452948041
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677825.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This book addresses how contemporary queer Native writers use the representation of bodily, emotional, and psychological sensation in challenging U.S. formulations of political subjectivity, while ...
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This book addresses how contemporary queer Native writers use the representation of bodily, emotional, and psychological sensation in challenging U.S. formulations of political subjectivity, while seeking to reimagine what counts as sovereignty and providing alternative ways of figuring Native experience. The supposedly apparent continuity of Indianness gives way to genealogies of sensation that trace how peoplehood exists within forms of feeling, prompting these queer writers to theorize dynamics of Indigenous sociality that shapes the meaning of self-determination under settler rule. Through this, possibilities for conceptualizing and realizing alternative versions of collective identity and indigeneity gradually emerge, in the attempt to go against the efforts to displace, translate, and erase Native peoples.Less
This book addresses how contemporary queer Native writers use the representation of bodily, emotional, and psychological sensation in challenging U.S. formulations of political subjectivity, while seeking to reimagine what counts as sovereignty and providing alternative ways of figuring Native experience. The supposedly apparent continuity of Indianness gives way to genealogies of sensation that trace how peoplehood exists within forms of feeling, prompting these queer writers to theorize dynamics of Indigenous sociality that shapes the meaning of self-determination under settler rule. Through this, possibilities for conceptualizing and realizing alternative versions of collective identity and indigeneity gradually emerge, in the attempt to go against the efforts to displace, translate, and erase Native peoples.
Michael D. McNally
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834060
- eISBN:
- 9781469606316
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807899663_martin.17
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
In closing, this book shows that each of its chapters has done much to complicate and open up our sense of past encounters between various Christian missionaries and various Native North American ...
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In closing, this book shows that each of its chapters has done much to complicate and open up our sense of past encounters between various Christian missionaries and various Native North American peoples. These encounters could transform missionaries even as their missionary projects could transform the cultures of Native communities. Missionary encounters have led to the tragic loss of many Native languages; missionary encounters have also led, through the mechanisms and practices of literacy, to the retention of Native languages. Missionary encounters could eradicate traditions; they could also provide material for new articulations of those traditions. The encounters could introduce or exacerbate divisions in Native communities and families, fomenting disastrous results, if not violence; through those encounters could also emerge novel social networks and institutions around which fragmented Native peoples could restore their communities.Less
In closing, this book shows that each of its chapters has done much to complicate and open up our sense of past encounters between various Christian missionaries and various Native North American peoples. These encounters could transform missionaries even as their missionary projects could transform the cultures of Native communities. Missionary encounters have led to the tragic loss of many Native languages; missionary encounters have also led, through the mechanisms and practices of literacy, to the retention of Native languages. Missionary encounters could eradicate traditions; they could also provide material for new articulations of those traditions. The encounters could introduce or exacerbate divisions in Native communities and families, fomenting disastrous results, if not violence; through those encounters could also emerge novel social networks and institutions around which fragmented Native peoples could restore their communities.
Phillip H. Round
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807833902
- eISBN:
- 9781469606347
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807899472_round.6
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter outlines how John Eliot's literacy mission served not only as the cornerstone of later book-centered Euro-American ideologies of conquest but also as the starting point for several ...
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This chapter outlines how John Eliot's literacy mission served not only as the cornerstone of later book-centered Euro-American ideologies of conquest but also as the starting point for several powerful alphabetic literacy complexes built and maintained by Native peoples in the eighteenth century. The coming of the book to Indian Country was a dialogic process. Books arrived in the New World and transformed it forever. Yet, just as significant, books were themselves transformed in the process. American books like those produced at Eliot's New England Mission press were often the result of bicultural cooperation and relied heavily on Indian compilers, translators, and editors. In the hands of these indigenous craftsmen, polemicists, writers, and readers, the European ideology of the book was put to the service of Native nation building in ways that far surpassed the expectations of the colonizers.Less
This chapter outlines how John Eliot's literacy mission served not only as the cornerstone of later book-centered Euro-American ideologies of conquest but also as the starting point for several powerful alphabetic literacy complexes built and maintained by Native peoples in the eighteenth century. The coming of the book to Indian Country was a dialogic process. Books arrived in the New World and transformed it forever. Yet, just as significant, books were themselves transformed in the process. American books like those produced at Eliot's New England Mission press were often the result of bicultural cooperation and relied heavily on Indian compilers, translators, and editors. In the hands of these indigenous craftsmen, polemicists, writers, and readers, the European ideology of the book was put to the service of Native nation building in ways that far surpassed the expectations of the colonizers.
Angela Pulley Hudson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624433
- eISBN:
- 9781469624457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624433.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This chapter focuses on Warner McCary's desire to escape his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, and his own painful past by reinventing himself. It explores the brickyards and barbershops of the ...
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This chapter focuses on Warner McCary's desire to escape his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, and his own painful past by reinventing himself. It explores the brickyards and barbershops of the Mississippi River port and sketches the city's complex cultural milieu—its reliance on chattel slavery, its briefly flourishing free black community, its connections to other ports, its rich indigenous life and history, and its varied cultural venues. McCary's decision to represent himself as an Indian following his manumission and departure from Natchez must be evaluated not only in the context of slavery, but also with an understanding of the influence of Native people and affairs on life in the South, including the context of Indian removal.Less
This chapter focuses on Warner McCary's desire to escape his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, and his own painful past by reinventing himself. It explores the brickyards and barbershops of the Mississippi River port and sketches the city's complex cultural milieu—its reliance on chattel slavery, its briefly flourishing free black community, its connections to other ports, its rich indigenous life and history, and its varied cultural venues. McCary's decision to represent himself as an Indian following his manumission and departure from Natchez must be evaluated not only in the context of slavery, but also with an understanding of the influence of Native people and affairs on life in the South, including the context of Indian removal.
Ann M. Axtmann
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813049113
- eISBN:
- 9780813050010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813049113.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter introduces the Native American intertribal powwow as a popular and prolific performance genre. Powwows are spiritual, social, and communal events that occur annually throughout North ...
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This chapter introduces the Native American intertribal powwow as a popular and prolific performance genre. Powwows are spiritual, social, and communal events that occur annually throughout North America and vary significantly by geographical region, tribal and community organizers, and participants. Powwows are also present in our daily lives through music, television, and film; photojournalism; and academic studies. After examining some of these sources, Axtmann discusses the importance of studying powwow through its everyday movement and dance––and, more specifically, proposes bringing choreographic tools, Laban Movement Analysis, and notions of “performance” and “performativity” to this project. In particular, she considers the genocides historically suffered by Native peoples in relation to how the body expresses itself through dance. Finally, Axtmann announces the central topics of her book by chapter, introduces key terms that will be used throughout, and explains how her own identity as a non-Indian dancer, choreographer, and performance scholar is located within the project.Less
This chapter introduces the Native American intertribal powwow as a popular and prolific performance genre. Powwows are spiritual, social, and communal events that occur annually throughout North America and vary significantly by geographical region, tribal and community organizers, and participants. Powwows are also present in our daily lives through music, television, and film; photojournalism; and academic studies. After examining some of these sources, Axtmann discusses the importance of studying powwow through its everyday movement and dance––and, more specifically, proposes bringing choreographic tools, Laban Movement Analysis, and notions of “performance” and “performativity” to this project. In particular, she considers the genocides historically suffered by Native peoples in relation to how the body expresses itself through dance. Finally, Axtmann announces the central topics of her book by chapter, introduces key terms that will be used throughout, and explains how her own identity as a non-Indian dancer, choreographer, and performance scholar is located within the project.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677825
- eISBN:
- 9781452948041
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677825.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter discusses the issues pertaining to the institutionalization of a heteronormative vision of Cherokee identity, while depicting that structure as a preservation of the principles of ...
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This chapter discusses the issues pertaining to the institutionalization of a heteronormative vision of Cherokee identity, while depicting that structure as a preservation of the principles of peoplehood. It explains how this kind of indigenous description can be understood as responsive to particular types of historical pressures placed on Native peoples. Cherokee scholar and poet Qwo-Li Driskill, through his poem “Stolen from Our Bodies,” offers the notion of a “Sovereign Erotic” as a way of connecting Native bodies, individual and collective self-representations, and ongoing histories of invasion, detribalization, and removal. The chapter also cites Driskill’s collection of poetry, Walking with Ghosts, where he develops an archaeology of Indigenous peoplehood and structures of feeling through reference to sensuous bodily experience.Less
This chapter discusses the issues pertaining to the institutionalization of a heteronormative vision of Cherokee identity, while depicting that structure as a preservation of the principles of peoplehood. It explains how this kind of indigenous description can be understood as responsive to particular types of historical pressures placed on Native peoples. Cherokee scholar and poet Qwo-Li Driskill, through his poem “Stolen from Our Bodies,” offers the notion of a “Sovereign Erotic” as a way of connecting Native bodies, individual and collective self-representations, and ongoing histories of invasion, detribalization, and removal. The chapter also cites Driskill’s collection of poetry, Walking with Ghosts, where he develops an archaeology of Indigenous peoplehood and structures of feeling through reference to sensuous bodily experience.
Kai Erikson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300106671
- eISBN:
- 9780300231779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300106671.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
This chapter examines the impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on the Native peoples of Alaska. The disaster occurred in March 1989, when the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Prince ...
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This chapter examines the impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on the Native peoples of Alaska. The disaster occurred in March 1989, when the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Prince William Sound. At least eleven million gallons of crude oil blackened more than a thousand miles of Alaskan coastline. The chapter considers what harm the disaster did to the Native individuals exposed to it and what damage it caused to the texture of their customary ways of life. In particular, it analyzes the ways that the oil spill affected the Alutiiq people's subsistence life as well as the Native way of being. It also discusses the Alutiiq's feeling of homelessness in the wake of the disaster.Less
This chapter examines the impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on the Native peoples of Alaska. The disaster occurred in March 1989, when the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Prince William Sound. At least eleven million gallons of crude oil blackened more than a thousand miles of Alaskan coastline. The chapter considers what harm the disaster did to the Native individuals exposed to it and what damage it caused to the texture of their customary ways of life. In particular, it analyzes the ways that the oil spill affected the Alutiiq people's subsistence life as well as the Native way of being. It also discusses the Alutiiq's feeling of homelessness in the wake of the disaster.
David E. Wilkins
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300119268
- eISBN:
- 9780300186000
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300119268.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
The Indian Claims Commission (ICC) was not the perfect solution but it gave hope. The chapter looks at the ICC and analyses its effectiveness. Native peoples no longer had to fight individually to ...
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The Indian Claims Commission (ICC) was not the perfect solution but it gave hope. The chapter looks at the ICC and analyses its effectiveness. Native peoples no longer had to fight individually to have bills introduced that would, if successful, allow them to file claim suits against the federal government. And no longer could single lawmakers block a tribe's right to present its claim before a court. All natives now had an opportunity to have their claims heard by a commission empowered to hear them. The chapter looks at the extent to which the ICC met up to expectations.Less
The Indian Claims Commission (ICC) was not the perfect solution but it gave hope. The chapter looks at the ICC and analyses its effectiveness. Native peoples no longer had to fight individually to have bills introduced that would, if successful, allow them to file claim suits against the federal government. And no longer could single lawmakers block a tribe's right to present its claim before a court. All natives now had an opportunity to have their claims heard by a commission empowered to hear them. The chapter looks at the extent to which the ICC met up to expectations.
Sarah Deer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696314
- eISBN:
- 9781452952338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696314.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
The epilogue is self-reflective of the author’s own history of working towards helping victims of sexual assault. It outlines her futures goals of scholarship in regards to sexual assault against ...
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The epilogue is self-reflective of the author’s own history of working towards helping victims of sexual assault. It outlines her futures goals of scholarship in regards to sexual assault against Native women. The author wishes to examine the role of language in shaping people’s experience of reality and social relations. In addition to studying the linguists of Native peoples, the author is interested in elevating the voices of Native women who have developed their own solutions and interventions within their tribal nations.Less
The epilogue is self-reflective of the author’s own history of working towards helping victims of sexual assault. It outlines her futures goals of scholarship in regards to sexual assault against Native women. The author wishes to examine the role of language in shaping people’s experience of reality and social relations. In addition to studying the linguists of Native peoples, the author is interested in elevating the voices of Native women who have developed their own solutions and interventions within their tribal nations.
Dustin Tahmahkera
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781469618685
- eISBN:
- 9781469618708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618685.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter summarizes the analysis of indigenous and nonindigenous representations that collide, converge, and are creatively adjusted and readjusted by generations of sitcom producers. Indigenous ...
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This chapter summarizes the analysis of indigenous and nonindigenous representations that collide, converge, and are creatively adjusted and readjusted by generations of sitcom producers. Indigenous producers like the 1491s promote a network of texts whose visual, sonic, and affective representations are programmed to empower Native Peoples. It challenges and motivates reflection on understandings of indigenous identities, supports the activist work of decolonizing views of Native cultures, and inspires current and future generations to create and broadcast their own Native tribal televisions.Less
This chapter summarizes the analysis of indigenous and nonindigenous representations that collide, converge, and are creatively adjusted and readjusted by generations of sitcom producers. Indigenous producers like the 1491s promote a network of texts whose visual, sonic, and affective representations are programmed to empower Native Peoples. It challenges and motivates reflection on understandings of indigenous identities, supports the activist work of decolonizing views of Native cultures, and inspires current and future generations to create and broadcast their own Native tribal televisions.
Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter assesses the images that have been used to depict queer Native people in contemporary narrative film. Contemporary narrative film, which offers the most widely viewed representations of ...
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This chapter assesses the images that have been used to depict queer Native people in contemporary narrative film. Contemporary narrative film, which offers the most widely viewed representations of queer Native people, often reenacts fragmenting visions of the erotic. Films like Big Eden, Johnny Greyeyes, and The Business of Fancydancing replicate the legacies of settler colonialism in their depictions of Two-Spirit Native people, leaving queer Indigenous people with an untenable choice in which they are “forced to choose.” They must either embrace family and nation in the silence of desire, or embrace sexuality at the expense of tribal and familial alliances.Less
This chapter assesses the images that have been used to depict queer Native people in contemporary narrative film. Contemporary narrative film, which offers the most widely viewed representations of queer Native people, often reenacts fragmenting visions of the erotic. Films like Big Eden, Johnny Greyeyes, and The Business of Fancydancing replicate the legacies of settler colonialism in their depictions of Two-Spirit Native people, leaving queer Indigenous people with an untenable choice in which they are “forced to choose.” They must either embrace family and nation in the silence of desire, or embrace sexuality at the expense of tribal and familial alliances.
Laurie Weinstein, Diane Hassan, and Samantha Mauro
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813056401
- eISBN:
- 9780813058214
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813056401.003.0008
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This chapter uses ethnohistoric research to address history’s failure to recognize the roles that peoples of African descent, Native peoples, and women had in the revolutionary cause. The chapter ...
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This chapter uses ethnohistoric research to address history’s failure to recognize the roles that peoples of African descent, Native peoples, and women had in the revolutionary cause. The chapter further describes how white men of privilege were not the only ones who voiced “the spirit of freedom,” as evidenced by Abigail Adams’s inspirational words. The research provides information about camp followers and presents specific biographic accounts of African Descendants and Native peoples who were stationed at the Middle Encampment in Redding, Connecticut.Less
This chapter uses ethnohistoric research to address history’s failure to recognize the roles that peoples of African descent, Native peoples, and women had in the revolutionary cause. The chapter further describes how white men of privilege were not the only ones who voiced “the spirit of freedom,” as evidenced by Abigail Adams’s inspirational words. The research provides information about camp followers and presents specific biographic accounts of African Descendants and Native peoples who were stationed at the Middle Encampment in Redding, Connecticut.
José António Brandão and Michael S. Nassaney
Michael S. Nassaney and Michael S. Nassaney (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813056425
- eISBN:
- 9780813058160
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813056425.003.0002
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This brief overview of the cultural and historical context of Fort St. Joseph explores how Natives and newcomers created a vibrant social and economic life on the frontier of the French empire. The ...
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This brief overview of the cultural and historical context of Fort St. Joseph explores how Natives and newcomers created a vibrant social and economic life on the frontier of the French empire. The Fort was an important trading post and a key cog in the French network of trading and military posts. Interactions between French speakers and Native peoples at the Fort initiated a process of ethnogenesis, even as both Native peoples and French settlers sought to maintain key elements of their particular culture.Less
This brief overview of the cultural and historical context of Fort St. Joseph explores how Natives and newcomers created a vibrant social and economic life on the frontier of the French empire. The Fort was an important trading post and a key cog in the French network of trading and military posts. Interactions between French speakers and Native peoples at the Fort initiated a process of ethnogenesis, even as both Native peoples and French settlers sought to maintain key elements of their particular culture.
Phillip H. Round
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807833902
- eISBN:
- 9781469606347
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807899472_round.13
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter examines two of the illustrated books produced by Native peoples in North America during the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the woodcut illustrations David Cusick produced to ...
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This chapter examines two of the illustrated books produced by Native peoples in North America during the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the woodcut illustrations David Cusick produced to accompany his Ancient History and the 1890s Target Record Book that contains the ledger art drawings of Kiowa artist Silver Horn (Haw-Gone). In examining Cusick's and Haw-Gone's work, the author offers a provisional exploration of the relationship between images and texts that are written/printed versions of what would ordinarily have taken the form of oral performances. The chapter concludes with a theorization of “indigenous illustration” that underscores how late-century print pictorialism began to serve Native cultural values and political objectives.Less
This chapter examines two of the illustrated books produced by Native peoples in North America during the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the woodcut illustrations David Cusick produced to accompany his Ancient History and the 1890s Target Record Book that contains the ledger art drawings of Kiowa artist Silver Horn (Haw-Gone). In examining Cusick's and Haw-Gone's work, the author offers a provisional exploration of the relationship between images and texts that are written/printed versions of what would ordinarily have taken the form of oral performances. The chapter concludes with a theorization of “indigenous illustration” that underscores how late-century print pictorialism began to serve Native cultural values and political objectives.
Denise E. Bates (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062631
- eISBN:
- 9780813051727
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062631.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This collection of first-hand accounts from Native people from across the southeast offers a rare glimpse into the powerful and diverse experiences of a population who have been historically ...
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This collection of first-hand accounts from Native people from across the southeast offers a rare glimpse into the powerful and diverse experiences of a population who have been historically overlooked or misrepresented in spite of the significant roles they played in the political, economic, and cultural development of the region. Comprised of personal reflections, oral histories, and speech transcripts, this volume contributes to larger conversations around issues of both southern and Indian identity, racialized politics (at the federal, state and inter-tribal levels), tribal nation-building, cultural preservation and restoration, education, health, and economic development. The collection contains over 40 entries that represent a diverse range of Indian communities from Virginia to Louisiana and are divided into four thematic chapters that are each introduced and connected to broader regional and national contexts. The contributors represent varying generations, professions, and tribal political statuses that—collectively—generate a better understanding of southeastern Indian leadership, resilience and perseverance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Less
This collection of first-hand accounts from Native people from across the southeast offers a rare glimpse into the powerful and diverse experiences of a population who have been historically overlooked or misrepresented in spite of the significant roles they played in the political, economic, and cultural development of the region. Comprised of personal reflections, oral histories, and speech transcripts, this volume contributes to larger conversations around issues of both southern and Indian identity, racialized politics (at the federal, state and inter-tribal levels), tribal nation-building, cultural preservation and restoration, education, health, and economic development. The collection contains over 40 entries that represent a diverse range of Indian communities from Virginia to Louisiana and are divided into four thematic chapters that are each introduced and connected to broader regional and national contexts. The contributors represent varying generations, professions, and tribal political statuses that—collectively—generate a better understanding of southeastern Indian leadership, resilience and perseverance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Duane Blue Spruce
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832646
- eISBN:
- 9781469606019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807889787_blue_spruce.5
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
The process of creating something is as important as the object being created for Native people. That was the spirit that the creators of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) wanted to ...
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The process of creating something is as important as the object being created for Native people. That was the spirit that the creators of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) wanted to honor in the building of the museum. This chapter looks at the first steps that were taken in the formation of the idea for the museum. The central ideas of the museum landscape were to be conveyed in a subtle, experiential, or affective manner rather than an overtly didactic one. The museum was to be designed and built in a holistic way, blurring the lines between building and landscape.Less
The process of creating something is as important as the object being created for Native people. That was the spirit that the creators of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) wanted to honor in the building of the museum. This chapter looks at the first steps that were taken in the formation of the idea for the museum. The central ideas of the museum landscape were to be conveyed in a subtle, experiential, or affective manner rather than an overtly didactic one. The museum was to be designed and built in a holistic way, blurring the lines between building and landscape.
Christian Ayne Crouch
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452444
- eISBN:
- 9780801470394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452444.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter argues that Native peoples nurtured their own memories of the Seven Years’ War and engaged with the war’s legacy in the same way that they interpreted, rejected, or adapted to changing ...
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This chapter argues that Native peoples nurtured their own memories of the Seven Years’ War and engaged with the war’s legacy in the same way that they interpreted, rejected, or adapted to changing environments, politics, and people—on their own terms. Their perspectives, as well as the continued presence of former French colonists, open up a different way of looking at French engagements in North America after the Seven Years’ War. The chapter then returns to Lorimier, lost son of Bougainville and scion of France’s North American empire in order to reconfigure spatial and temporal boundaries to reflect the Indian–French prism and resolve the legacy of French North America and France’s Seven Years’ War in a Native perspective.Less
This chapter argues that Native peoples nurtured their own memories of the Seven Years’ War and engaged with the war’s legacy in the same way that they interpreted, rejected, or adapted to changing environments, politics, and people—on their own terms. Their perspectives, as well as the continued presence of former French colonists, open up a different way of looking at French engagements in North America after the Seven Years’ War. The chapter then returns to Lorimier, lost son of Bougainville and scion of France’s North American empire in order to reconfigure spatial and temporal boundaries to reflect the Indian–French prism and resolve the legacy of French North America and France’s Seven Years’ War in a Native perspective.
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300214932
- eISBN:
- 9780300235548
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300214932.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This chapter focuses on John Wompas's residence in London, which allowed him to make new friends and acquaintances. As he had done before, he drew on them for financial and emotional support and ...
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This chapter focuses on John Wompas's residence in London, which allowed him to make new friends and acquaintances. As he had done before, he drew on them for financial and emotional support and rewarded them with deeds to Native land. Wompas again found a welcome reception at the court of Charles II, including expressions of support for the rights of the Crown's Native subjects. However, the king's supportive words would not translate into deeds, an outcome that reveals much about the English empire's shallow commitment to Native peoples. Resourceful as ever, Wompas managed through his own actions to secure assistance for himself and protection for the lands of his Nipmuc kin.Less
This chapter focuses on John Wompas's residence in London, which allowed him to make new friends and acquaintances. As he had done before, he drew on them for financial and emotional support and rewarded them with deeds to Native land. Wompas again found a welcome reception at the court of Charles II, including expressions of support for the rights of the Crown's Native subjects. However, the king's supportive words would not translate into deeds, an outcome that reveals much about the English empire's shallow commitment to Native peoples. Resourceful as ever, Wompas managed through his own actions to secure assistance for himself and protection for the lands of his Nipmuc kin.
David E. Wilkins
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300119268
- eISBN:
- 9780300186000
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300119268.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This book explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close ...
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This book explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination reveals that even when compensatory programs were instituted, Native peoples never attained a genuine sense of justice. The book addresses the important question of what one nation owes another when the balance of rights, resources, and responsibilities has been negotiated through treaties. How does the United States ensure that guarantees made to tribal nations, whether through a century-old treaty or a modern day contract, remain viable and lasting?Less
This book explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination reveals that even when compensatory programs were instituted, Native peoples never attained a genuine sense of justice. The book addresses the important question of what one nation owes another when the balance of rights, resources, and responsibilities has been negotiated through treaties. How does the United States ensure that guarantees made to tribal nations, whether through a century-old treaty or a modern day contract, remain viable and lasting?
