Clearing a path : theorizing the past in Native American studies

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Clearing a path : theorizing the past in Native American studies / edited by Nancy Shoemaker.

Shoemaker, Nancy, 1958- (Added Author).

Summary:

Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples.

Record details

ISBN: 0415926742
ISBN: 9780415926744
ISBN: 0415926750 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780415926751 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xiii, 215 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:: INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES AND INDEX.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Stories. Oral history, narrative strategies, and Native American historiography: perspectives from the Yukon Territory, Canada / Julie Cruikshank -- The story of America: a tribalography / LeAnne Howe -- Categories of analysis. Categories / Nancy Shoemaker -- "Some women are wiser than some men": gender and Native American history / Gunlög Fur -- Political economy. Marxism and historical materialism in American Indian history / Patricia C. Albers -- Primary sources: Indian goods and the history of American colonialism and the 19th-century reservation / Jacki Thompson Rand -- Tribal histories, indigenous histories. Keep your thoughts above the trees: ideas on developing and presenting tribal histories / Craig Howe -- Life proceeds from the name: indigenous peoples and the predicament of hybridity / James F. Brooks.