Reconfigurations of Native North America

by Wunder, John R.; Kinbacher, Kurt E.; Henriksson, Markku

• ISBN13: 9780896726413
• ISBN10: 089672641X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr

Summary

Bringing new dimensions to the discourses on First Nations and Native America

Table of Contents

Maps and Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Comparative Historical and Cultural Perspectives	p. 9
Indigenous Colonial Treaties of North America in Comparative Perspective	p. 13
Native Self-Determination Building: The Crees of Northern Quebec and the Navajos of the American Southwest	p. 32
Bear Ceremonialism and Its Ecological Aspects among Subarctic and Plains Indians	p. 54
The Literary Indigenous Voice	p. 71
The Curious Case of Coyote, or the Tale of the Appropriated Trickster	p. 75
"My Cells Will Not Forget": The Writings of Wendy Rose	p. 91
Sherman Alexie and Stretching Sexual Boundaries	p. 102
Challenges Past and Present	p. 109
The Image of Indians in the Imagination of the Early Republic	p. 115
Perspectives on the Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890	p. 140
Force and Possibility: Hopis' Views of the Internet	p. 152
Indian Gaming, Sovereignty, and the Courts: The Case of the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida	p. 160
Teaching and Learning about Native North America: An Analysis of Educational Standards for Schools in the United States and Canada	p. 178
Nation and Identity	p. 193
Building a Shawnee Nation: Indigenous Identity, Tribal Structure, and Sociopolitical Organization, 1400-1770	p. 199
"Why Quarrel about Dividing the Hind Quarter When We Are Not Going to Hunt?": Seminole Diplomatic Discourse before the Comet	p. 225
Hybridity, Canadian Indian Policy, and the Construction and "Extinguishment" of Metis Aboriginal Rights in the Nineteenth Century	p. 236
The "Metis Indians" of Ontario	p. 252
The People	p. 263
Scales of Aboriginal Citizenship in Canada: Postcolonial Problems and Progress	p. 269
The Land Remembers the People, the People Remember the Land: American Indian History as a Continuing Story	p. 279
Beginnings	p. 293
About the Authors	p. 303
Index	p. 309
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