The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America

The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America
Title The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America PDF eBook
Author Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 465
Release 2007-04-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0313082545

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Most Americans know very little about Native America. For many, most of their knowledge comes from an amalgam of three sources—a barely remembered required history class in elementary school, Hollywood movies, and debates in the news media over casinos or sports mascots. This two-volume set deals with these issues as well as with more important topics of concern to the future of Native Americans, including their health, their environment, their cultural heritage, their rights, and their economic sustainability. This two-volume set is one of few guides to Native American revival in our time. It includes detailed descriptions of efforts throughout North America regarding recovery of languages, trust funds, economic base, legal infrastructure, and agricultural systems. The set also includes personal profiles of individuals who have sparked renewal, from Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a leader among the Inuit whose people deal with toxic chemicals and global warming, to Ernest Benedict and Ray Fadden, who brought pride to Mohawk children long before the idea was popular. Also included are descriptions of struggles over Indian mascots, establishment of multicultural urban centers, and ravages of uranium mining among the Navajo. The set ends with a detailed development of contemporary themes in Native humor as a coping mechanism. Delving occasionally into historical context, this set includes valuable background information on present-day controversies that are often neglected by the news media. For example, the current struggles to recover Native American trust funds and languages both emerged from a cradle-to-grave control system developed by the U.S. and Canadian governments. These efforts are part of a much broader Native American effort to recover from pervasive poverty and reassert Native American economic independence. Is gambling an answer to poverty, the new buffalo, as some Native Americans have called it? The largest Native American casino to date has been the Pequots' Foxwoods, near Ledyard, Connecticut. In other places, such as the New York Oneidas' lands in Upstate New York, gambling has provided an enriched upper class the means to hire police to force anti-gambling traditionalists from their homes. Among the Mohawks at Akwesasne, people have died over the issue. This two-volume set brings together all of these struggles with the attention to detail they have always deserved and rarely received.

The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Back from the (nearly) dead : reviving indigenous languages across North America

The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Back from the (nearly) dead : reviving indigenous languages across North America
Title The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Back from the (nearly) dead : reviving indigenous languages across North America PDF eBook
Author Bruce Elliott Johansen
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre Indians of North America
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The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Linguistic, ethnic, and economic revival

The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Linguistic, ethnic, and economic revival
Title The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Linguistic, ethnic, and economic revival PDF eBook
Author Bruce Elliott Johansen
Publisher Greenwood
Pages 244
Release 2007
Genre History
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Provides a culturally relevant and rich introduction to contemporary issues facing Native Americans.

Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics

Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics
Title Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 276
Release 2003
Genre Algonquian languages
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The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Linguistic, ethnic, and economic revival

The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Linguistic, ethnic, and economic revival
Title The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Linguistic, ethnic, and economic revival PDF eBook
Author Bruce Elliott Johansen
Publisher Greenwood
Pages 240
Release 2007
Genre History
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Provides a culturally relevant and rich introduction to contemporary issues facing Native Americans.

The Cambridge History of Native American Literature

The Cambridge History of Native American Literature
Title The Cambridge History of Native American Literature PDF eBook
Author Melanie Benson Taylor
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 941
Release 2020-09-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1108643183

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Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet external and internal expectations. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: “Traces & Removals” (pre-1870s); “Assimilation and Modernity” (1879-1967); “Native American Renaissance” (post-1960s); and “Visions & Revisions” (21st century). These rubrics highlight how Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such, as the American Civil Rights movement. There is a balance between a history of canonical authors and traditions, introducing less-studied works and themes, and foregrounding critical discussions, approaches, and controversies.

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Pages 236
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ISBN 9780275991401

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