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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810871903321

Autore

Usner Daniel H

Titolo

Indian work [[electronic resource] ] : language and livelihood in Native American history / / Daniel H. Usner, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05474-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

330.9730089/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Economic conditions

Indians of North America - Employment

Indians of North America - Public opinion

White people - Relations with Indians

Public opinion - United States

United States Race relations

United States Social policy

United States Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Representations 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.