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Book The People Are Dancing Again

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Wilkinson
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0295802014
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book The People Are Dancing Again written by Charles Wilkinson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Siletz is in many ways the history of all Indian tribes in America: a story of heartache, perseverance, survival, and revival. It began in a resource-rich homeland thousands of years ago and today finds a vibrant, modern community with a deeply held commitment to tradition. The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians�twenty-seven tribes speaking at least ten languages�were brought together on the Oregon Coast through treaties with the federal government in 1853�55. For decades after, the Siletz people lost many traditional customs, saw their languages almost wiped out, and experienced poverty, killing diseases, and humiliation. Again and again, the federal government took great chunks of the magnificent, timber-rich tribal homeland, a reservation of 1.1 million acres reaching a full 100 miles north to south on the Oregon Coast. By 1956, the tribe had been �terminated� under the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act, selling off the remaining land, cutting off federal health and education benefits, and denying tribal status. Poverty worsened, and the sense of cultural loss deepened. The Siletz people refused to give in. In 1977, after years of work and appeals to Congress, they became the second tribe in the nation to have its federal status, its treaty rights, and its sovereignty restored. Hand-in-glove with this federal recognition of the tribe has come a recovery of some land--several hundred acres near Siletz and 9,000 acres of forest--and a profound cultural revival. This remarkable account, written by one of the nation�s most respected experts in tribal law and history, is rich in Indian voices and grounded in extensive research that includes oral tradition and personal interviews. It is a book that not only provides a deep and beautifully written account of the history of the Siletz, but reaches beyond region and tribe to tell a story that will inform the way all of us think about the past. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEtAIGxp6pc

Book Worlds the Shawnees Made

Download or read book Worlds the Shawnees Made written by Stephen Warren and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America

Book Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson  Volume VII  1838 1842

Download or read book Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume VII 1838 1842 written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eight regular journals and three miscellaneous notebooks of this volume is the record of fusions. This period of his life closes, as it opened, with 'acquiescence and optimism.'

Book Reproduction on the Reservation

Download or read book Reproduction on the Reservation written by Brianna Theobald and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly. As Brianna Theobald illustrates, the federal government and local authorities have long sought to control Indigenous families and women's reproduction, using tactics such as coercive sterilization and removal of Indigenous children into the white foster care system. But Theobald examines women's resistance, showing how they have worked within families, tribal networks, and activist groups to confront these issues. Blending local and intimate family histories with the histories of broader movements such as WARN (Women of All Red Nations), Theobald links the federal government's intrusion into Indigenous women's reproductive and familial decisions to the wider history of eugenics and the reproductive rights movement. She argues convincingly that colonial politics have always been--and remain--reproductive politics. By looking deeply at one tribal nation over more than a century, Theobald offers an especially rich analysis of how Indigenous women experienced pregnancy and motherhood under evolving federal Indian policy. At the heart of this history are the Crow women who displayed creativity and fortitude in struggling for reproductive self-determination.

Book Painful Beauty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Megan A. Smetzer
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2021-07-27
  • ISBN : 0295748958
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Painful Beauty written by Megan A. Smetzer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women’s resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich artistic visions with deep connections to the environment, clan histories, and Tlingit worldviews. Contemporary Tlingit artists Alison Bremner, Chloe French, Shgen Doo Tan George, Lily Hudson Hope, Tanis S’eiltin, and Larry McNeil foreground the significance of historical beading practices in their diverse, boundary-pushing artworks. Working with museum collection materials, photographs, archives, and interviews with artists and elders, Megan Smetzer reframes this often overlooked artform as a site of historical negotiations and contemporary inspirations. She shows how beading gave Tlingit women the freedom to innovate aesthetically, assert their clan crests and identities, support tribal sovereignty, and pass on cultural knowledge. Painful Beauty is the first dedicated study of Tlingit beadwork and contributes to the expanding literature addressing women’s artistic expressions on the Northwest Coast.

Book The Forgotten Tribe

Download or read book The Forgotten Tribe written by Lisa Emerson and published by CSU Open Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important corrective to the view that scientists are "poor writers, unnecessarily opaque, not interested in writing, and in need of remediation." Arguing that scientists are "the most sophisticated and flexible writers in the academy, often writing for a wider range of audiences than most other faculty"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Indian Journals  1859 62

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486275994
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Indian Journals 1859 62 written by Lewis Henry Morgan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist's researches among the Indians of Kansas and Nebraska—kinship systems, social organization, climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, more. 20 illus.

Book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian  National Book Award Winner

Download or read book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian National Book Award Winner written by Sherman Alexie and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Book The Art of Conversion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cécile Fromont
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2014-12-19
  • ISBN : 1469618729
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Art of Conversion written by Cécile Fromont and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.

Book The Mishomis Book

Download or read book The Mishomis Book written by Edward Benton-Banai and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For young readers, the collected wisdom and traditions of Ojibway elders.

Book Transcultural Nursing   E Book

Download or read book Transcultural Nursing E Book written by Joyce Newman Giger and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get up to speed on how to properly assess the care needs of today’s culturally diverse clientele with Transcultural Nursing: Assessment & Intervention, 7th Edition. Centering on Giger's unique transcultural model of clear, easy-to-apply assessment and intervention strategies for the clinical setting, this one-of-a-kind resource will help you learn to identify the six key cultural phenomena used in caring for clients from different backgrounds (communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations), and show you how to apply these phenomena to a variety of individuals in different cultures. UNIQUE! Giger & Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model devotes a full chapter to each of the six aspects of cultural assessment (communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biologic variations) to help readers apply this model to any client of any culture — even those not covered in the text. 2010 census data is incorporated through the book to provide the most current analysis of demographic trends. UNIQUE! Sample care plans demonstrate how to apply principles to specific client needs. UNIQUE! Discussion of the spiritual component provides a more holistic, integrated approach to culture and assessment. Case studies and critical thinking questions help readers apply the assessment framework in practice. Clarification of biologic variations for select cultural groups raises readers’ awareness of potential risks/influences on client health. NEW! Completely revised cultural chapters reflect the shifting experiences of various cultural groups in our society.

Book Tribes of Uttar Pradesh and Uttranchal

Download or read book Tribes of Uttar Pradesh and Uttranchal written by Sumedha Naswa and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookman s Journal and Print Collector

Download or read book The Bookman s Journal and Print Collector written by Wilfred Partington and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Slavery in Colonial America

Download or read book Indian Slavery in Colonial America written by Alan Gallay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus?s arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies, and though African slave labor filled many needs, huge numbers of America?s indigenous peoples continued to be captured and forced to work as slaves. Although central to the process of colony-building in what became the United States, this phenomena has received scant attention from historians. ø Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, examines the complicated dynamics of Indian enslavement. How and why Indians became both slaves of the Europeans and suppliers of slavery?s victims is the subject of this book. The essays in this collection use Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations between and among Native groups.

Book The Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Education

Download or read book The Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: