LEADER 03893nam 2200685 450 001 9910813878603321 005 20230126213921.0 010 $a0-8203-4847-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000553657 035 $a(EBL)4397162 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001590113 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16284815 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001590113 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12348335 035 $a(PQKB)11155358 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397162 035 $a(OCoLC)933338186 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46370 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397162 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11212892 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL880734 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000553657 100 $a20160612h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWeaving alliances with other women $eChitimacha Indian work in the New South /$fDaniel H. Usner 210 1$aAthens, Ohio ;$aLondon, England :$cThe University of Georgia Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (136 p.) 225 1 $aMercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures ;$vNumber 56 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8203-4848-1 311 $a0-8203-4849-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"Entirely a philanthropic work" : Mary McIlhenny Bradford, benevolent merchant -- "We have no justice here" : Christine Navarro Paul, Chitimacha basketmaker -- "Language of the wild things" : Caroline Coroneos Dormon, New Deal naturalist -- Appendix: "What a Chitimacha Indian woman did for her people," by Mary McIlhenny Bradford. 330 2 $a"Friendships that Christine Paul (1874-1946) sustained with Mary Bradford (1869-1954) and Caroline Dormon (1888-1971) at different times in her life offer an all too scarce vantage point from which Daniel Usner explores the condition of American Indians in the Jim Crow South. 'Aspects that, for the most part, have not been addressed in historical works' according to Devon Mihesuah, 'are the feelings and emotions of Native women, the relationships among them, and their observations of non-Natives.' In Weaving Alliances with Other Women, Usner hopes to overcome this neglect for one Indigenous community in the southern United States. In Christine Paul's respective exchanges of information and insight with two non-Indian women, thanks to the survival of her invaluable correspondence with Bradford and Dormon, Usner attempts to ascertain what Rebecca Sharpless called a 'bivocal representation' of relationships fraught with important social, economic, and cultural tensions. Interacting closely within a social web largely woven with woven objects, the identities of these three women nonetheless developed along very separate paths--paths mapped-out by their unequal positions in the New South"--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aMercer University Lamar memorial lectures ;$vNumber 56. 606 $aChitimacha Indians$vBiography 606 $aIndian women basket makers$zLouisiana$vBiography 606 $aChitimacha Indians$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aFemale friendship$xSocial aspects$zLouisiana$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWhite people$zLouisiana$xRelations with Indians$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aLouisiana$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aChitimacha Indians 615 0$aIndian women basket makers 615 0$aChitimacha Indians$xSocial conditions 615 0$aFemale friendship$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aWhite people$xRelations with Indians$xHistory 676 $a305.897/90763 700 $aUsner$b Daniel H.$0901709 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813878603321 996 $aWeaving alliances with other women$94034477 997 $aUNINA