Format:
Online-Ressource (272 p)
ISBN:
9780803225329
Content:
When he was out playing Indian, enacting Hollywood-inspired scenarios, it never occurred to the child Roger Welsch that the little girl sitting next to him in school was Indian. A lifetime of learning later, Welsch's enthusiasm is undimmed, if somewhat more enlightened. In Embracing Fry Bread Welsch tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Native American culture, which, beginning in earnest with the study of linguistic practices of the Omaha tribe during a college anthropology course, resulted in his becoming an adopted member and kin of both the Omaha and the Pawnee tribes. With req
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. First, a Story; 2. Introduction; 3. A Beginning; 4. Beyond the Handgame; 5. History, Long and Short; 6. Who Are We?; 7. The Call of Curiosity, Keep the Change; 8. Enter the Wannabes; 9. What's in a Name; 10. Who Is "The Indian"?; 11. Who Is the Wannabe?; 12. The Contrary Lesson of the Prime Directive; 13. First Steps; 14. The Fix Is Out; 15. Indian Wannabes; 16. Gottabes; 17. Becoming New; 18. How It Goes, How It Went; 19. The Plot Thickens; 20. Why?; 21. Gottabes Again; 22. The Ways of Foodways; 23. Carnivores Forever
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24. Another World25. The Consequences of Incuriosity; 26. Symbols and Realities; 27. Indian Humor; 28. Names and Naming; 29. The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger of 1877; 30. Names . . . and Names; 31. Matters of Faith; 32. Deduction/Induction; 33. What Is Indian Religion?; 34. The Sun Dance; 35. The Native Church; 36. Inside Native Religion; 37. Knowing What We Don't Know; 38. What History Teaches Us; 39. The Empty Frontier; 40. Indians Today; 41. Indians as Americans; 42. The Land; 43. The Real Wonder of It; 44. Eloquence; 45. From Presumed Inferiority to Rampant Egalitarianism; 46. Time
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47. Property and Gifts48. The Gift of Giving; 49. The Fabric of Sharing; 50. The Spirit of Giving; 51. Squaring the Circle; 52. So, How Different Are We?; 53. What We See; 55. Conclusions; 56. Repositories of Wisdom; 57. What's in It for Indians?; 58. So You Wannabe a Wannabe?;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803244924
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803225329
Additional Edition:
Print version Embracing Fry Bread : Confessions of a Wannabe
Language:
English
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