Arapaho Journeys

Author : Sara Wiles
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186615
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arapaho Journeys written by Sara Wiles and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, as Anglo-Americans pushed west, Northern Arapaho life changed dramatically. Although forced to relocate to a reservation, the people endured and held on to their traditions. Today, tribal members preserve the integrity of a society that still fosters living ni'iihi', as they call it, "in a good way." Award-winning photographer Sara Wiles captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at thirty years of Northern Arapaho life on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming. Through more than 100 images and 40 essays, Wiles creates a visual and verbal mosaic of contemporary Northern Arapaho culture. Depicted in the photographs are people Wiles met at Wind River while she was a social worker, anthropology student, and adopted member of an Arapaho family. Among others pictured are Josephine Redman, an older woman wrapped in a blanket, soft light illuminating its folds, and rancher-artist Eugene Ridgely, Sr., half smiling as he intently paints a drum. Interspersed among the portraits are images of races, basketball teams, and traditional games. Wiles's essays weave together tribal history, personal narratives, and traditional knowledge to describe modern-day reservation life and little-known aspects of Arapaho history and culture, including naming ceremonies and cultural revitalization efforts. This work broaches controversial topics, as well, including the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. Arapaho Journeys documents not only reservation life but also Wiles's growth as a photographer and member of the Wind River community from 1975 through 2005. This book offers readers a journey, one that will enrich their understanding of Wiles's art—and of the Northern Arapahos' history, culture, and lived experience.

Author : Sara Wiles
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166096
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arapaho Way written by Sara Wiles and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The sun, the moon, the seasons, our Arapaho way of life,” writes foreworder Jordan Dresser. “When you look around, you see circles everywhere. And that includes the lens Sara Wiles uses to capture these intimate moments of our Arapaho journeys.” In The Arapaho Way, Wiles returns to Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation, whose people she so gracefully portrayed in words and photographs in Arapaho Journeys (2011). She continues her journey of discovery here, photographing the lives of contemporary Northern Arapaho people and listening to their stories that map the many roads to being Arapaho. In more than 100 pictures, taken over the course of thirty-five years, and Wiles’s accompanying essays, the history of individuals and their culture unfold, revealing a continuity, as well as breaks in the circle. Mixing traditional ways with new ideas—Catholicism, ranching, cowboying, school learning, activism, quilting, beadwork, teaching, family life—the people of Wind River open a rich world to Wiles and her readers. These are people like Helen Cedartree, who artfully combines Arapaho ways with the teaching of the mission boarding schools she once attended; like the Underwood family, who live off the land as gardeners and farmers and value family and hard work above everything; and like Ryan Gambler and Fred Armajo, whose love of horses and ranching keep them close to home. And there are others who have ventured into the non-Indian world, people like James Large, who brings home tenets of Indian activism learned in Denver. There are also, inevitably, visions of violence and loss as The Arapaho Way depicts the full life of the Wind River Indian Reservation, from the traditional wisdom of the elder to the most forward-looking youth, from the outer reaches of an ancient culture to the last-minute challenges of an ever-changing world.

Author : Andrew Cowell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147814
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers written by Andrew Cowell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of these narratives, gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were obtained or published only in English translation. Although this is the case with many Arapaho stories, extensive Arapaho-language texts exist that have never before been published—until now. Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers gives new life to these manuscripts, celebrating Arapaho oral narrative traditions in all the richness of their original language.

Author : Loretta Fowler
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438103662
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arapaho written by Loretta Fowler and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Arapaho Indians.

Author : Bobby F. Steere
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440104026
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trace of the Southern Arapaho written by Bobby F. Steere and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tous (Hello). Whether you are a friend and student of Indian culture, or a Southern Arapaho tribal member, this book provides an exceptional opportunity to celebrate the trail, the trace, of the Arapaho Tribe. Come travel the Southern Arapahos trace from eastern Asia to the Southern Plains and into their reservation lives. Then accompany their pilgrimage to Cobb Creek and witness their Anglization. Hohou. (Thank you.)

Author : Douglas Harper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000874753
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Sociology written by Douglas Harper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new version of the authoritative textbook in the field of visual sociology focuses on the key topics of documentary photography, visual ethnography, collaborative visual research, visual empiricism, the study of the visual symbol and teaching sociology visually. This updated and expanded edition includes nearly twice as many images and incorporates new in-depth case studies, drawing upon the author’s lifetime of pioneering research and teaching as well as the often neglected experiences of women and people of color. The book examines how documentary photography can be useful to sociologists, both because of the topics examined by documentarians and as an example of how seeing is socially constructed. Harper describes the exclusion of women through much of the history of documentary photography and the distinctiveness of the female eye in recent documentary, a phenomenon he calls "the gendered lens". The author examines how a visual approach allows sociologists to study conventional topics differently, while offering new perspectives, topics and insights. For example, photography shows us how perspective itself affects what we see and know, how abstractions such as "ideal types" can be represented visually, how social change can be studied visually and how the study of symbols can lead us to interpret public art, architecture and person-made landscapes. There is an extended study of how images can lead to cooperative research and learning; how images can serve as bridges of understanding, blurring the lines between researcher and researched. The important topic of reflexivity is examined by close study of Harper’s own research experiences. Finally, the author focusses on teaching, offering templates for full courses, assignments and projects, and guides for teachers imagining how to approach visual sociology as a new practice. This definitive yet accessible textbook will be indispensable to teachers, researchers and professionals with an interest in visual sociology, research methods, cultural theory and visual anthropology.

Author : Natalie M. Rosinsky
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756508319
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arapaho and Their History written by Natalie M. Rosinsky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the history and customs of the Arapaho.

Author : Karen Bush Gibson
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736815642
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arapaho written by Karen Bush Gibson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Arapaho people, tracing their customs, family life, history, culture, and relations with the United States government.

Author : Virginia J. Sutter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell Me, Grandmother written by Virginia J. Sutter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell Me, Grandmother is at once the biography of Goes-in-Lodge, a traditional Arapaho woman of the nineteenth century, and the autobiography of her descendant, Virginia Sutter, a modern Arapaho woman with a PhD in public administration. Sutter adeptly weaves her own story with that of Goes-in-Lodge -- who, in addition to being Sutter's great-grandmother, was first wife of Sharpnose, the last chief of the Northern Arapaho nation. Writing in a question-and-answer format between twentieth-century granddaughter and matriarchal ancestor, Sutter discusses four generations of home life, including details about child rearing, education, courtship, marriage, birthing, and burial. Sutter's portrait of Goes-in-Lodge is based on tribal history and interviews with tribal members. Goes-in-Lodge speaks of social and ceremonial gatherings, the Sun Dance, the sweat lodges, and the changes that took place on the Great Plains throughout her lifetime. Sutter details her own life as a child born in a teepee to a white mother and Indian father and the discrimination and injustice she faced struggling to make her way in an increasingly Euro-American world.

Author : Andrew Cowell
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539065
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naming the World written by Andrew Cowell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naming the World examines language shift among the Northern Arapaho of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, and the community’s diverse responses as it seeks social continuity. Andrew Cowell argues that, rather than a single “Arapaho culture,” we find five distinctive communities of practice on the reservation, each with differing perspectives on social and more-than-human power and the human relationships that enact power. As the Arapaho people resist Euro-American assimilation or domination, the Arapaho language and the idea that the language is sacred are key rallying points—but also key points of contestation. Cowell finds that while many at Wind River see the language as crucial for maintaining access to more-than-human power, others primarily view the language in terms of peer-oriented identities as Arapaho, Indian, or non-White. These different views lead to quite different language usage and attitudes in relation to place naming, personal naming, cultural metaphors, new word formation, and the understudied practice of folk etymology. Cowell presents data from conversations and other natural discourse to show the diversity of everyday speech and attitudes, and he links these data to broader debates at Wind River and globally about the future organization of indigenous societies and the nature of Arapaho and indigenous identity.