Reconfigurations of Native North America : an anthology of new perspectives

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Reconfigurations of Native North America : an anthology of new perspectives / edited by John R. Wunder and Kurt E. Kinbacher ; foreword by Markku Henriksson.

Wunder, John R. (Added Author). Kinbacher, Kurt E. (Added Author). Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies 2002 : Renvall-instituutti) (9th : (Added Author).

Summary:

"Seventeen essays highlight contemporary indigenous studies. Primarily for scholarly audiences, the essays reflect indigenous voices and consider Native worldviews while confronting issues such as indigenous identity, cultural perseverance, economic development, and urbanization. Discussions examine mainstream policies that influenced Native peoples in a number of eras and places"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780896726413 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 089672641X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xii, 314 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Papers from the Ninth Biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies, held Sept. 2-6, 2002 at the Renvall Institute.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Indigenous colonial treaties of North America in comparative perspective / John R. Wunder -- Native self-determination building : the Crees of northern Québec and the Navajos of the American Southwest / David Harding -- Bear ceremonialism and its ecological aspects among subarctic and Plains Indians / Riku Hämäläinen -- Curious case of Coyote, or the tale of the appropriated Trickster / Mark Shackleton -- "My cells will not forget" : the writings of Wendy Rose / P. Jane Hafen -- Sherman Alexie and stretching sexual boundaries / Patrice Hollrah -- Image of Indians in the imagination of the early republic / Peter C. Messer -- Perspectives on the Lakota ghost dance of 1890 / Rani-Henrik Andersson -- Force and possibility : Hopis' views of the Internet / Ritva Levo-Henriksson -- Indian gaming, sovereignty, and the courts : the case of the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida / Miia Halme -- Teaching and learning about Native North America : an analysis of educational standards for schools in the United States and Canada / Susan A. Wunder -- Building a Shawnee nation : indigenous identity, tribal structure, and sociopolitical organizations, 1400-1770 / Sami Lakomäki -- "Why quarrel about dividing the hind quarter when we are not going to hunt?" : Seminole diplomatic discourse before the comet / Susan A. Miller -- Hybridity, Canadian Indian policy, and the construction and "extinguishment" of Metis Aboriginal rights in the nineteenth century / Gerhard J. Ens -- "Metis Indians" of Ontario / Joe Sawchuk -- Scales of Aboriginal citizenship in Canada : postcolonial problems and progress / Patricia Burke Wood -- Land remembers the people, the people remember the land : American Indian history as a continuing story / Peter Iverson -- Beginnings / Kurt E. Kinbacher.