ISBN:
1845193075
,
9781845193072
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 307, [4] S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
Series Statement:
First nations and the colonial encounter
DDC:
978.004/97352
Keywords:
Siksika Indians Colonization
;
Siksika Indians Cultural assimilation
;
Siksika Indians Folklore
;
Siksika Indians Religion
;
Siksika Indians Clothing
;
Nordamerika
;
Kolonisierung
;
Blackfoot
;
Geschichte 1870-1920
Description / Table of Contents:
The Blackfoot sun dance : resistance and persistence, 1877-1930 -- The sun dance : invoking the sacred -- Colonial conceits and indictable offenses -- Honouring creator sun and praying for good crops -- The grammar of Blackfoot leadership dress, 1830-1930 -- Dress, sacred stories, and worldviews -- Fur trade, success, and dress -- The longevity of buckskins -- Ethnographic encounters : cultural transactions and translations -- Between orality and text : the encounter with "salvage" ethnography -- Blackfoot genres into written history and literature -- The oral tradition in contemporary native literature -- Hero quests, sun dancing, and the story of "scarface" -- The Blackfoot hero in James Welch's Fools crow -- Ethics in Emma Lee Warrior's Compatriots -- Conclusion.
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