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Indian country : essays on contemporary native culture / / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis



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Autore: Valaskakis Gail Guthrie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Indian country : essays on contemporary native culture / / Gail Guthrie Valaskakis Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
Disciplina: 305.897/071
Soggetto topico: First Nations
Indians of North America
First Nations - Ethnic identity
Indians of North America - Ethnic identity
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-282) and index.
Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Approaching Indian Country; 1 LIVING THE HERITAGE OF LAC DU FLAMBEAU: Traditionalism and Treaty Rights; 2 RIGHTS AND WARRIORS: Media Memories and Oka; 3 POSTCARDS OF MY PAST: Indians and Artifacts; 4 INDIAN COUNTRY: Claiming Land in Native America; 5 SACAJAWEA AND HER SISTERS: Images and Native Women; 6 DANCE ME INSIDE: Pow Wow and Being Indian; 7 DRUMMING THE PAST: Researching Indian Objects; 8 BLOOD BORDERS: Being Indian and Belonging; 9 CONCLUSION: All My Relations; REFERENCES; INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern ""Indian wars"" are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and political arenas across North America, Natives enact and newcomers protest issues of traditionalism, sovereignty, and self-determination. In these struggles over domination and resistance, over different ideologies and Indian identities, neither Nati
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ISBN: 9786610280865
9781554588107
1554588103
9781280280863
1280280867
9780889209206
0889209200
9781417599646
1417599642
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825586703321
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Serie: Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)