Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians - Brossura

Kohn, Rita T.; Montell, W. Lynwood

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ISBN 10: 0253220017 ISBN 13: 9780253220011

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Forty individuals, from 17 different tribes, representing 11 nations, tell their stories in Always a People. Like other Native Americans, the Woodland Nations have tenaciously clung to their sense of community despite 150 years of government policies aimed at destroying their culture. As descendants of people who shaped the history of the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, the narrators reveal a close affinity to the land from which most of them have been forcibly removed. The 11 nations represented in this volume are Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware, Shawnee, Peoria, Oneida, Ottawa, Winnebago, Sac and Fox, Chippewa, and Kickapoo.

While all of the tribes have their own particular history, there are shared patterns of experience. All see themselves as people who do not fit the stereotypes often associated with "Native Americans." They speak of the urgency for making room for multiple voices drawn from many traditions.

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Rita Kohn is Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and a senior writer for NUVO. She is co-editor of Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians (IUP, 2007). She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

W. Lynwood Montell is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Western Kentucky University. He is the author of 19 books, including most recently Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland. He lives in Oakland, Kentucky.

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0253220017
• ISBN 13: 9780253220011
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320