Powwow

Ellis, Clyde, 1958- (Added Author). Lassiter, Luke E. (Added Author). Dunham, Gary H. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780803229600 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780803267558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0803229607 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 080326755X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 978080326758 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978080326258 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xv, 309 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Clyde Ellis and Luke Eric Lassiter -- "The sound of the drum will revive them and make them happy" / Clyde Ellis -- Some reflections on nearly forty years on the Northern Plains powwow circuit / Patricia C. Albers and Beatrice Medicine -- Ho-chunk "Indian powwows" of the early twentieth century / Grant Arndt -- Local contexts of powwow ritual / Loretta Fowler -- Putting things in order : the discourse of tradition / R.D. Theisz -- The songs of our elders : performance and cultural survival in Omaha and Dane-zaa traditions / Robin Ridington, Dennis Hastings, and Tommy Attachie -- Powwow patter : Indian emcee discourse on power and identity / Daniel J. Gelo -- Beauty is youth : the powwow "princess" / Kathleen Glenister Roberts -- East meets west : on stomp dance and powwow worlds in Oklahoma / Jason Baird Jackson -- The Monacan Nation powwow : symbol of indigenous survival and resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains / Samuel R. Cook, John L. Johns, and Karenne Wood -- Two-spirit powwows and the search for social acceptance in Indian country / Brian Joseph Gilley -- Powwow overseas : the German experience / Renae Watchman -- Dancing with Indians and wolves : new agers tripping through powwows / Lisa Aldred -- Purposes of North Carolina powwows / Chris Goertzen.