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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald Niezen; Manley A Begay; et al |
| ISBN: | 0520209850 9780520209855 0520219872 9780520219878 0520219864 9780520219861 |
| OCLC Number: | 42667827 |
| Description: | xviii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Conquest of Souls. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Epidemics and the "Black Robes" of New France. Puritans and "Praying Indians" in New England. Prelude to Nation Building -- The Pequots' Conversion to Christianity / Kim Burgess -- 3. Learning to Forget. Enlightenment and Evolutionism. The Origins of the Indian Residential School. Residential Education in Canada. The Hidden Catastrophe -- The Way of the Dine' Still Sustains Us / Manley Begay, Jr. -- 4. Medical Evangelism. Contrasting Styles of Healing. Mission Programs, Federal Intervention, and Regional Autonomy. Sorrow and Forgetting -- Hearing Voices: Gwich'in Athabaskan Perceptions of Spirit Invasion and Recovery / Phyllis Fast -- 5. The Politics of Repression. The Ghost Dance Religion and the Suppression of Prophecy. The Potlatch Laws. The Peyote Religion and Its Enemies. Transgressions of Sacred Space -- Native Spiritual Traditions and the Tribal State: The Oklahoma Choctaws in the Late Twentieth Century / Valerie Long Lambert -- 6. The Collectors. Ethnological Collecting. Desecration and the Growth of Museums. Bones and Spirits. Repatriation -- Dialogue or Diatribe? Indians and Archaeologists in the Post-NAGPRA Era / Michael Wilcox -- 7. Apostles of the New Age. Wild Men of Ideas. The Oral and the Written. Invention and Authenticity. Suffering and Redemption -- Medicine Wheelers and Dealers / Bernard C. Perley -- 8. Conclusions. |
| Responsibility: | Ronald Niezen ; with contributions by Manley Begay, Jr. ... [et al.]. |
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