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American Indian persistence and resurgence

Author: Karl Kroeber
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States has seen an astonishing demographic growth reaching beyond all biological probability as increasing numbers of Americans desire to admit or to claim Native American ancestry. This volume illustrates a unique moment in  Read more...
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American Indian persistence and resurgence.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1994
(OCoLC)624088504
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karl Kroeber
ISBN: 0822314592 9780822314592 0822314878 9780822314875
OCLC Number: 30072918
Notes: "A boundary 2 book."
All but one essay reprinted from Boundary 2, v. 19, no. 3.
Description: iv, 261 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Native American resistance and renewal / Karl Kroeber --
The nations of a state / Edward H. Spicer, preface by Rosamond B. Spicer --
An interview with Jack Salzman, Director of the Columbia University Center for American Culture Studies / Karl Kroeber --
The Navajo nightway and the western gaze / William Overstreet --
Terms of assimilation: legislating subjectivity in the emerging nation / Priscilla Wald --
Plains Indian native literatures / Douglas R. Parks and Raymond J. DeMallie --
Transitional narratives and cultural continuity / Elaine A. Jahner --
Francis LaFlesche's "The song of the flying crow" and the limits of ethnography / Jarold Ramsey --
Europe's Indian, America's Jew: Modiano and Vizenor / Jonathan Boyarin --
Manifest manners: the long gaze of Christopher Columbus / Gerald Vizenor --
If texts are prayers, what do Wintu want? / Linda Ainsworth --
December 1890-1990 / Wendy Rose --
Retrieving Osceola's head, Okemah, Oklahoma, June 1985 / Wendy Rose --
Own / Katharine Pearce.
Responsibility: edited by Karl Kroeber.

Abstract:

"This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States has seen an astonishing demographic growth reaching beyond all biological probability as increasing numbers of Americans desire to admit or to claim Native American ancestry. This volume illustrates a unique moment in history, as unprecedented numbers of Native Americans seek to create a powerful, flexible sense of cultural identity. Diverse commentators, including literary critics, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, poets and a novelist address persistent issues facing Native Americans and Native American studies today. The future of White-Indian relation, the viability of Pan-Indianism, tensions between Native Americans and North American anthropologists, and new devlopments in ethnohistory are among the topics discussed. The survival of Native Americans as recorded in this collection, an expanded edition of a special issue of boundary 2, brings into focus the dynamically adaptive values of Native American culture. Native Americans' persistence in U.S. culture - not disappearing under the pressure to assimilate or through genocidal warfare - reminds us of the extent to which any living culture is defined by the process of transformation." -- Book cover.

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