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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779092203321

Autore

Owings Alison

Titolo

Indian voices [[electronic resource] ] : listening to Native Americans / / Alison Owings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8135-5418-7

1-283-86465-7

0-8135-5096-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Disciplina

970.004/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Ethnic identity

Indians of North America - Social conditions

Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation

Indians, Treatment of - North America

Indians of North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-343) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A man of the dawn: Darrell Newell (Passamaquoddy) -- "Indians 101": Elizabeth Lohah Homer (Osage) -- A trio of Lumbees: Pamela Brooks Sweeney, Curt Locklear, and Mary Ann Cummings Jacobs -- Elders of the Haudenosaunee: Darwin Hill (Tonawanda Seneca) and Geraldine Green (Cattaraugus Seneca) -- City kid: Ansel Deon (Lakota/Navajo) -- The drum keeper: Rosemary Berens (Ojibwe) -- "How's everybody doing tonight?": Marcus Frejo, aka Quese IMC (Pawnee/Seminole) -- Tales from Pine Ridge: Karen Artichoker, with Heath Ducheneaux and Dwanna Oldson (Lakota) -- "Get over it!" and other suggestions: Patty Talahongva (Hopi) -- The former president: Claudia Vigil-Muniz (Jicarilla Apache) -- Practicing medicine: Harrison Baheshone (Navajo) -- The kin of Sacajawea: Emma George and Summer Morning Baldwin (Lemhi Shoshone) -- Indian humor: Carol Craig (Yakama) -- Powwow power: Tom Phillips (Kiowa) -- Relearning for life: Henry Frank (Yurok) -- Eskimo ice cream: Christine Guy (Yup'ik) -- Aloha from Hawai'i : Charles Ka'upu Jr.

Sommario/riassunto

A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from



16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.