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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | ebook version |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Clifford E Trafzer |
| ISBN: | 9780295994581 0295994584 0295742763 9780295742762 |
| OCLC Number: | 891324432 |
| Description: | xx, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Chemehuevi way -- Invading and defaming the Chemehuevi -- War, resistance, and survival -- The Chemehuevi at Twenty-Nine Palms -- Unvanished Americans -- Willie, William, and Carlota -- Cultural preservation, ethnogenesis, and revitalization -- Glossary. |
| Series Title: | Indigenous confluences. |
| Other Titles: | Resilience of a Southern Paiute tribe |
| Responsibility: | Clifford E. Trafzer ; foreword by Larry Myers. |
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Some academics are good scholars and a few are good storytellers. Clifford Trafzer is both. . . . Trafzer presents a nuanced view of the community's culture, especially their songs as methods of dealing with sorrow. . . . A Chemehuevi Song is a testament to their songs as metaphors for the Chemehuevi's adaptations to adversity and relative prosperity. -- Ronald L. Holt * New Mexico Historical Review * A well-written and illustrated, carefully documented, masterful contribution to the overlapping fields of ethnohistory, ethnomusicology, Native American and American studies, myth, and folklore. Essential. * Choice * Clifford E. Trafzer has produced a thorough history of the Chemehuevi people. . . . This work will appeal to a wide audience. It is certainly an important work for California Indian scholars. . . . This book is a song with a very clear message and chorus, and Trafzer makes very clear that the song continues. -- Rebecca Bales * Western Historical Quarterly * Trafzer's book is a wondrous portrayal. . . . Compelling historical discourse. . . . A Chemehuevi Song is a song, and a story, that we should all make time to hear. -- David Martinez * The Journal of Arizona History * The sound historical research, sources, and extensive employment of oral history interviews makes this account of the history and persistence of the Chemehuevi an impressive work. -- William D. Rowley * Montana Magazine * [A Chemehuevi Song] represents the highest level of academic and community collaboration. . . [It] is the embodiment of an intellectual and cultural relationship that combines an astute analysis from the historian/ethnographer with a melody of rare tribal voices sharing the lived realities-both past and present-that Chemehuevi people experienced, survived, and relied upon to create the cultural resilience they are experiencing today. -- Theresa L. Gregor * Southern California Quarterly * Read more...
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- Chemehuevi Indians -- History.
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