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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790122803321

Autore

Robbins Catherine C

Titolo

All Indians do not live in teepees (or casinos) [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine C. Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011

ISBN

1-280-54701-4

9786613596192

0-8032-3812-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Disciplina

970.004/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Social life and customs

Indians of North America - Material culture

United States Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bison original"--P. [4] of cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-357) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : flying together -- The unconquerables -- Thoughts from the chief -- An encampment -- The way we should -- Where hatred was born -- The drum -- Buckskin boxes, galactic explosion -- Disclosures : we help each other.

Sommario/riassunto

Both a tribute to the unique experiences of individual Native Americans and a celebration of the values that draw American Indians together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) explores contemporary Native life. Based on personal experience and grounded in journalism, this story begins with the repatriation of ancestral remains to the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico. The 1999 return to Pecos of the skeletal remains of two thousand bodies excavated during an archaeological expedition nearly a century earlier was the largest repatriation in American history. In a united, purposeful, and