A Stranger In Her Native Land

Author : Joan T. Mark
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803281561
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stranger in Her Native Land written by Joan T. Mark and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the life of the nineteenth-century American anthropologist, focusing on her efforts to improve the conditions under which the American Indians existed

Author : Louise Michele Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198028865
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Women's Rights written by Louise Michele Newman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory. At a time when white elites were concerned with imperialist projects and civilizing missions, progressive white women developed an explicit racial ideology to promote their cause, defending patriarchy for "primitives" while calling for its elimination among the "civilized." By exploring how progressive white women at the turn of the century laid the intellectual groundwork for the feminist social movements that followed, Louise Michele Newman speaks directly to contemporary debates about the effect of race on current feminist scholarship. "White Women's Rights is an important book. It is a fascinating and informative account of the numerous and complex ties which bound feminist thought to the practices and ideas which shaped and gave meaning to America as a racialized society. A compelling read, it moves very gracefully between the general history of the feminist movement and the particular histories of individual women."--Hazel Carby, Yale University

Author : Richard L. Carrico
Publisher : Adventures in the Natural Hist
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangers in a Stolen Land written by Richard L. Carrico and published by Adventures in the Natural Hist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Indians in San Diego County from 1850 through the 1930s. This analysis provides a glimpse into the cultural history of the native peoples of the region, including the Kumeyaay (Ipai/Tipai), Luiseno, Cupeno, and Cahuilla.

Author : Margaret D. Jacobs
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803211007
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Mother to a Dark Race written by Margaret D. Jacobs and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations? larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands. White Mother to a Dark Racetakes the study of indigenous education and acculturation in new directions in its examination of the key roles white women played in these policies of indigenous child-removal. Government officials, missionaries, and reformers justified the removal of indigenous children in particularly gendered ways by focusing on the supposed deficiencies of indigenous mothers, the alleged barbarity of indigenous men, and the lack of a patriarchal nuclear family. Often they deemed white women the most appropriate agents to carry out these child-removal policies. Inspired by the maternalist movement of the era, many white women were eager to serve as surrogate mothers to indigenous children and maneuvered to influence public policy affecting indigenous people. Although some white women developed caring relationships with indigenous children and others became critical of government policies, many became hopelessly ensnared in this insidious colonial policy.

Author : Eddy L. Harris
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679742326
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Stranger written by Eddy L. Harris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eddy Harris went to Africa, he ended up learning a great deal about his own identity as a black American as well as witnessing both the splendor and squalor of the continent. From encounters with beggars and bureaucrats to a visit to Soweto and a hellish night in a Liberian jail, Harris evokes Africa with candor and vividness.

Author : Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826355641
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's National Indian Association written by Valerie Sherer Mathes and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women’s National Indian Association, formed in response to the chronic conflict and corruption that plagued relations between American Indians and the U.S. government, has been all but forgotten since it was disbanded in 1951. Mathes’s edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group. The WNIA was formed in 1879 in reaction to the prospect of opening Oklahoma Indian Territory to white settlement. A powerful network of upper- and middle-class friends and associates, the group soon expanded its mission beyond prayer and philanthropy as the women participated in political protest and organized successful petition drives that focused on securing civil and political rights for American Indians. In addition to discussing the association’s history, the contributors to this book evaluate its legacies, both in the lives of Indian families and in the evolution of federal Indian policy. Their work reveals the complicated regional variations in reform and the complex nature of Anglo women’s relationships with indigenous people.

Author : Francis La Flesche
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279773
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ke-ma-ha written by Francis La Flesche and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on the Omaha Reservation in 1857, Francis La Flesche was raised in the years when federal policy encouraged Indians to assimilate. He learned English at a mission school, acquiring a fluency that prepared him for a career that moved between tribal and national concerns. Most of the stories in Ke-ma-ha have never before been published. Written to bring public attention to the Omahas, they tell us about that culture in ways that anthropological treatises cannot. Francis La Flesche collaborated with anthropologist Alice C. Fletcher on The Omaha Tribe and A Study of Omaha Indian Music. These titles, as well as La Flesche’s autobiographical The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe, are available as Bison Books.

Author : Kristofer Ray
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299338509
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Teaching Native American History written by Kristofer Ray and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding and Teaching Native American History is a timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. This book highlights the ongoing integral role of Native peoples via broad coverage in a variety of topics including the historical, political, and cultural. Nearly a decade in the conception and making, this is a groundbreaking source for both beginning and veteran instructors.

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781574230222
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native in a Strange Land written by Wanda Coleman and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1996 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this substantial selection of her occasional journalism, poet Wanda Coleman has judiciously reshaped articles, essays, interviews and columns written over three decades (for, among other places, the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly and The Free Press) into a nearly-seamless personal narrative: "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory".

Author : Jennifer S. H. Brown
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128139
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangers in Blood written by Jennifer S. H. Brown and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert's Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudson's Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states. The knowledge and support of northern Native peoples were critical to the newcomer's survival and success. With acquaintance and alliance came intermarriage, and the unions of European traders and Native women generated thousands of descendants. Jennifer Brown's Strangers in Blood is the first work to look systematically at these parents and their children. Brown focuses on Hudson's Bay Company officers and North West Company wintering partners and clerks-those whose relationships are best known from post journals, correspondence, accounts, and wills. The durability of such families varied greatly. Settlers, missionaries, European women, and sometimes the courts challenged fur trade marriages. Some officers' Scottish and Canadian relatives dismissed Native wives and "Indian" progeny as illegitimate. Traders who took these ties seriously were obliged to defend them, to leave wills recognizing their wives and children, and to secure their legal and social status-to prove that they were kin, not "strangers in blood." Brown illustrates that the lives and identities of these children were shaped by factors far more complex than "blood." Sons and daughters diverged along paths affected by gender. Some descendants became Métis and espoused Métis nationhood under Louis Riel. Others rejected or were never offered that course-they passed into white or Indian communities or, in some instances, identified themselves (without prejudice) as "half breeds." The fur trade did not coalesce into a single society. Rather, like Rupert's Land, it splintered, and the historical consequences have been with us ever since.