ISBN:
9780896726413
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 314 S.
,
Kt
DDC:
970.004/97
Keywords:
Indians of North America Congresses Study and teaching
;
Indians of North America Congresses Social conditions
;
Indians of North America Congresses Ethnic identity
;
Indians of North America Congresses Government relations
;
North America Congresses Civilization
;
North America Congresses Ethnic relations
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Nordamerika
;
Indianer
;
Métis
;
Eskimo
;
Geschichte 1700-2000
Abstract:
"Seventeen essays highlight contemporary indigenous studies. Primarily for scholarly audiences, the essays reflect indigenous voices and consider Native worldviews while confronting issues such as indigenous identity, cultural perseverance, economic development, and urbanization. Discussions examine mainstream policies that influenced Native peoples in a number of eras and places"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Indigenous colonial treaties of North America in comparative perspective
,
Native self-determination building : the Crees of northern Québec and the Navajos of the American Southwest
,
Bear ceremonialism and its ecological aspects among subarctic and Plains Indians
,
Curious case of Coyote, or the tale of the appropriated Trickster
,
"My cells will not forget" : the writings of Wendy Rose
,
Sherman Alexie and stretching sexual boundaries
,
Image of Indians in the imagination of the early republic
,
Perspectives on the Lakota ghost dance of 1890
,
Force and possibility : Hopis' views of the Internet
,
Indian gaming, sovereignty, and the courts : the case of the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida
,
Teaching and learning about Native North America : an analysis of educational standards for schools in the United States and Canada
,
Building a Shawnee nation : indigenous identity, tribal structure, and sociopolitical organizations, 1400-1770
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"Why quarrel about dividing the hind quarter when we are not going to hunt?" : Seminole diplomatic discourse before the comet
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Hybridity, Canadian Indian policy, and the construction and "extinguishment" of Metis Aboriginal rights in the nineteenth century
,
"Metis Indians" of Ontario
,
Scales of Aboriginal citizenship in Canada : postcolonial problems and progress
,
Land remembers the people, the people remember the land : American Indian history as a continuing story
,
Beginnings
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