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Being and becoming Indian : biographical studies of North American frontiers / edited by James A. Clifton.

Clifton, James A. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0256070717 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 9780256070712 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0256062544 (hard) :
  • ISBN: 9780256062540 (hard)
  • Physical Description: xxi, 337 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Dorsey Press, c1989.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. 321-327.
Formatted Contents Note:
Alternate identities and cultural frontiers / James A. Clifton -- Simon Girty: interpreter and intermediary / Colin C. Calloway -- Joseph Renville and the ethos of biculturism / Gary C. Anderson -- Augustin Hamlin, Jr.: Ottawa identity and politics of Ottawa persistence / James M. McClurken -- Eleazer Williams: elitism and multiple identity on two frontiers / Geoffrey E. Buerger -- Susette and Susan LaFlesch: reformer and missionary / Jerry E. Clark and Martha Ellen Webb -- Mourning Dove: the author as cultural mediator / Jay Miller -- From Sylvester Long to Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance / Donald B. Smith -- "A place in your mind for them all:" Chief William Berens / Jennifer S. H. Brown -- Dan Raincloud: "Keeping our Indian way" / Mary Black-Rogers -- Maud Clairmont: artist, entrepreneur, cultural mediator / Thomas H. Johnson -- Joe True: convergent needs and assumed identity / Robert J. Stahl -- Oopeeleeka and Mina: contrasting responses to modernization of two Baffin Island Inuit women / Ann McElroy.
Subject:
Indians of North America > Biography.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Lummi Library BIO CLIF 1989 02237907 Biography Reshelving -
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