ISBN:
0889204799
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 293 p)
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ill., ports
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Aboriginal studies series
Series Statement:
Indigenous Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.897/071
Keywords:
Indians of North America
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Indians of North America Ethnic identity
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Indians of North America Ethnic identity
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Indians of North America
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Indians of North America ; Canada ; Ethnic identity
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Indians of North America ; Canada
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Indians of North America ; Ethnic identity
;
Indians of North America
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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 Natives nor other North Americans recognize the significance of being rooted together in history and culture, or how representations of "Indianness" set them in opposition to each other. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis uses a cultural studies approach to offer a unique perspective on Native political struggle and cultural conflict in both Canada and the United States. She reflects on treaty rights and traditionalism, media warriors, Indian princesses, powwow, museums, art, and nationhood. According to Valaskakis, Native and non-Native people construct both who they are and their relations with each other in narratives that circulate through art, anthropological method, cultural appropriation, and Native reappropriation. For Native peoples and Others, untangling the past-personal, political, and cultural-can help to make sense of current struggles over power and identity that define the Native experience today. Grounded in theory and threaded with Native voices and evocative descriptions of "Indian" experience (including the author's), the essays interweave historical and political process, personal narrative, and cultural critique. This book is an important contribution to Native studies that will appeal to
Abstract:
Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-282) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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