Bear Claw Necklace, Sauk and Fox
Title | Bear Claw Necklace, Sauk and Fox PDF eBook |
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Release | 1995 |
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The Sac and Fox Indians
Title | The Sac and Fox Indians PDF eBook |
Author | William Thomas Hagan |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780806121383 |
Studies the causes and events of the tragic Black Hawk War, in which the Sacs and Foxes were finally dispossessed
The Mascoutens Or Prairie Potawatomi Indians
Title | The Mascoutens Or Prairie Potawatomi Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Alanson Skinner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Mascouten Indians |
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Encyclopedia Of American Indian Costume
Title | Encyclopedia Of American Indian Costume PDF eBook |
Author | Josephine Paterek |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 1996-03-05 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780393313826 |
A beautifully produced and illustrated (bandw) reference that offers complete descriptions and cultural contexts of the dress and ornamentation of the North American Indian tribes. The volume is divided into ten cultural regions, with each chapter giving an overview of the regional clothing. Individual tribes of the area follow in alphabetical order. Tribal information includes men's basic dress, women's basic dress, footwear, outer wear, hair styles, headgear, accessories, jewelry, armor, special costumes, garment decoration, face and body embellishment, transitional dress after European contact, and bibliographic references. Appendices include a description of clothing arts and a glossary. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Giving Voice to Bear
Title | Giving Voice to Bear PDF eBook |
Author | David Rockwell |
Publisher | Roberts Rinehart |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2003-04-21 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1461664578 |
In this new edition of a classic, David Rockwell describes the captivating and awe-inspiring presence of the bear in Native American rituals. The bear played a central role in shamanic rights, initiation, healing and hunting ceremonies, and new year celebrations. Considered together, these traditions are another way of looking at the world, one in which the mysteries of the universe are revealed through animals.
Prophets and Ghosts
Title | Prophets and Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel J. Redman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2021-10-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674269993 |
A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples through dispossession of the very communities it was meant to protect. In the late nineteenth century, anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, and other chroniclers began amassing Indigenous cultural objects—crafts, clothing, images, song recordings—by the millions. Convinced that Indigenous peoples were doomed to disappear, collectors donated these objects to museums and universities that would preserve and exhibit them. Samuel Redman dives into the archive to understand what the collectors deemed the tradition of the “vanishing Indian” and what we can learn from the complex legacy of salvage anthropology. The salvage catalog betrays a vision of Native cultures clouded by racist assumptions—a vision that had lasting consequences. The collecting practice became an engine of the American museum and significantly shaped public education and preservation, as well as popular ideas about Indigenous cultures. Prophets and Ghosts teases out the moral challenges inherent in the salvage project. Preservationists successfully maintained an important human inheritance, sometimes through collaboration with Indigenous people, but collectors’ methods also included outright theft. The resulting portrait of Indigenous culture reinforced the public’s confidence in the hierarchies of superiority and inferiority invented by “scientific” racism. Today the same salvaged objects are sources of invaluable knowledge for researchers and museum visitors. But the question of what should be done with such collections is nonetheless urgent. Redman interviews Indigenous artists and curators, who offer fresh perspectives on the history and impact of cultural salvage, pointing to new ideas on how we might contend with a challenging inheritance.
Great Lakes Indian Art
Title | Great Lakes Indian Art PDF eBook |
Author | Detroit Institute of Arts |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Art |
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