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Indian Country: Aboriginal Studies

Autor Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2005
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 recognise 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 authors), 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 anyone interested in First Nations experience and popular culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780889204799
ISBN-10: 0889204799
Pagini: 293
Ilustrații: b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Seria Aboriginal Studies


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Table of Contents for
Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Approaching Indian Country

Living the Heritage of Lac du Flambeau: Traditionalism and Treaty Rights

Rights and Warriors: Media Memories and Oka

Postcards of My Past: Indians and Artifacts

Indian Country: Claiming Land in Native America

Sacajawea and Her Sisters: Images and Native Women

Dance Me Inside: Pow Wow and Being Indian

Drumming the Past: Researching Indian Objects

Blood Borders: Being Indian and Belonging

Conclusion: All My Relations

References

Index


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