Between Indian and white worlds : the cultural broker

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Between Indian and white worlds : the cultural broker / edited by Margaret Connell Szasz.

Summary:

Cultural boundaries exist wherever cultures encounter one another. During centuries of contact between native peoples and others in America, countless intermediaries - artists, students, traders, interpreters, political figures, authors, even performers - have bridged the divide. Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker provides a new understanding of the role of these mediators in North America from 1690 to the present. Cultural brokers have shared certain qualities - in particular a thorough understanding of two or more cultures. Living on the edge of change and conflict, they have responded to evolving and unstable circumstances or alliances with a flexibility born of their determination to bring understanding to disparate peoples. No composite portrait can encompass the complexity of the brokerage experience. To convey the many roles of these intermediaries, editor Margaret Connell Szasz has brought together fourteen distinct portraits, crafted by prominent scholars of Indian-white relations, of brokers across the continent and throughout three centuries of American history - in the colonial world, during the expansion of the republic, in the Wild West, and in the twentieth century. This fascinating and inspiring collection speaks eloquently of life on the cultural frontier. Key figures in our pluralistic heritage, cultural brokers are no less important today, as society continues to struggle with diversity.

Record details

ISBN: 0806125950
ISBN: 9780806125954
Physical Description: xii, 386 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-365) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: The ways and words of the other: Diego de Vargas and cultural brokers in late seventeenth-century New Mexico / John L. Kessell -- "Faithful, knowing, and prudent": Andrew Montour as interpreter and cultural broker, 1740-1772 / Nancy L. Hagedorn -- Samson Occom: Mohegan as spiritual intermediary / Margaret Connell Szasz -- Red-head's domain: William Clark's Indian brokerage / James P. Ronda -- An alternative missionary style: Evan Jones and John B. Jones among the Cherokees / William G. McLoughlin -- American Indian school pupils as cultural brokers: Cherokee girls at Brainerd Mission, 1828-1829 / Michael C. Coleman -- Helen Hunt Jackson as power broker / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- Interpreting the Wild West, 1883-1914 / L.G. Moses -- Female native teachers in Southeast Alaska: Sarah Dickinson, Tillie Paul, and Frances Willard / Victoria Wyatt -- Three cultural brokers in the context of Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian" / Mick Gidley -- Jesse Rowlodge: Southern Arapaho as political intermediary / Donald J. Berthrong -- D'Arcy McNickle: living a broker's life / Dorothy R. Parker -- Speaking their language: Robert W. Young and the Navajos / Peter Iverson -- Pablita Velarde: The Pueblo artist as cultural broker / Sally Hyer.