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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
Secrets of an Ageless Journey (1997) the journey begins once again
when a sixteen year old girl, Sarah, ventures into the mysteries
surrounding her grandfather and the family ancestral ranch. While
visiting her cousins on the ranch she discovers an old journal
written over eighty years before. The journal becomes the focus of
her quest for discovering a mysterious influence that is about the
family; and in some way guiding her. (1915) the journal takes Sarah
back to one summer in the life of her great grandfather, Joseph,
and his twin sister, Ida Belle as they experience a similar
ancestral stirring in their lives. A great grandmother comes to
visit the twins, involving them in a mystery that has haunted her
and the clan. It is through the grandmother that the premise of an
invisible force and invisible world exist and was essential to the
culture and heritage of an American Indian nation.
This significant contribution to Cherokee studies examines the
tribe's life during the eighteenth century, up to the Removal. By
revealing town loyalties and regional alliances, Tyler Boulware
uncovers a persistent identification hierarchy among the colonial
Cherokee.
Boulware aims to fill the gap in Cherokee historical studies by
addressing two significant aspects of Cherokee identity: town and
region. Though other factors mattered, these were arguably the most
recognizable markers by which Cherokee peoples structured group
identity and influenced their interactions with outside groups
during the colonial era.
This volume focuses on the understudied importance of social and
political ties that gradually connected villages and regions and
slowly weakened the localism that dominated in earlier decades. It
highlights the importance of borderland interactions to Cherokee
political behavior and provides a nuanced investigation of the
issue of Native American identity, bringing geographic relevance
and distinctions to the topic.
Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald
studies the social construction of racial and ethnic identity in
Beyond White Ethnicity. Fitzgerald focuses on Native Americans, who
despite a previously unacknowledged and uncelebrated background,
are embracing and reclaiming their heritage in their everyday
lives. Focusing on the purpose, process, and problems of this
reclamation, Fitzgerald's research provides an understanding of
these issues. She also exposes how institutional power relations
are racialized and how race is a social and political construction,
and she helps us understand larger cultural transformations. This
insightful collection of research sparks the interest of those who
study sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical
Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length
single-authored study of Native American writer Linda Hogan and the
first book to address Hogan's poetry and prose primarily from
ecocritical perspectives (inclusive of ecofeminism, environmental
justice, postcolonial ecocriticism, and animal studies). It also is
unique for the reason that it is a comparative study of the work of
Hogan and writings by Taiwanese environmental writers, scholars,
and activists. Chapter One, which serves as the introduction to the
book, written by and from the perspective of an indigene, begins by
giving readers a glimpse into the kind of world in the east in
which the author came of age. It then relates this world to the
western worlds that Hogan writes about in her poetry and prose.
Chapter Two focuses on Hogan's most recently published novel,
People of the Whale (2008), and on the arguments that the novel
makes about the environmentally unsustainable acts of corporate
globalization that involve the trade in endangered animal species.
Huang relates those arguments to the oil industry in Taiwan and to
the extirpation of cetacean species in the waters of Taiwan by this
industry. Chapter Three is an analysis of the novel Mean Spirit
(1990). Huang reads this novel mostly through the lens of
environmental justice arguments. Chapter Four addresses the novel
Solar Storms (1995) from the perspective of ecofeminist theory and
in the context of the issue of the escalation of mega-dams in East
Asia. Chapter Five analyses the novel Power from animal studies
perspectives. Chapter Six is a comparative studies reading of poems
by several prominent Chinese, Taiwanese, and Aboriginal
poets-Taiwanese poet Ka-hsiang Liu, Paiwan poet Mona Neng, Atayal
poet Walis Nokan, and Chinese-Taiwanese poet Guangzhong Yu-and
Hogan's latest collection of poetry, entitled Dark. Sweet: New
& Selected Poems (2014). In his reading of this work, Huang
relies on a definition of "ecopoetry" in Ann Fisher-Wirth and
Laura-Gray Street's recently published The Ecopoetry Anthology
(2013). He also brings together the main theoretical ecocritical
terms that he discusses in the previous chapters.
"Explores colonial Spanish-Apache relations in the Southwest
borderlands"
More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set
foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late
1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago's
gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches
illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial
period of the Southwest and northern Mexico. To persuade the
Apaches to abandon their homelands and accept Christian
"civilization," Spanish officials employed both the mailed fist of
continuous war and the velvet glove of the reservation system.
"Hostiles" captured by the Spanish would be deported, while Apaches
who agreed to live in peace near the Spanish presidios would
receive support. Santiago's history of the deportation policy
includes vivid descriptions of "colleras," the chain gangs of
Apache prisoners of war bound together for the two-month journey by
mule and on foot from the northern frontier to Mexico City. The
book's arresting title, "The Jar of Severed Hands," comes from a
1792 report documenting a desperate break for freedom made by a
group of Apache prisoners. After subduing the prisoners and killing
twelve Apache men, the Spanish soldiers verified the attempted
breakout by amputating the left hands of the dead and preserving
them in a jar for display to their superiors.
Santiago's nuanced analysis of deportation policy credits both
the Apaches' ability to exploit the Spanish government's dual
approach and the growing awareness on the Spaniards' part that the
peoples they referred to as Apaches were a disparate and complex
assortment of tribes that could not easily be subjugated. "The Jar
of Severed Hands" deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the
relationship between Indian tribes and colonial powers in the
Southwest borderlands.
From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the industrialized world's encroachment
on native lands has brought disastrous environmental harm to
indigenous peoples. More than 170 native peoples around the world
are facing life-and-death struggles to maintain environments
threatened by oil spills, explosions, toxic chemicals, global
warming, and other pollutants. This unique resource surveys those
indigenous peoples and the environmental hazards that threaten
their existence, providing a wealth of information not readily
available elsewhere. Arranged geographically, each entry focuses on
the peoples of a particular country and the environmental issues
they face, from the global warming and toxic chemicals threatening
the Arctic Inuits, to the logging that is devastating indigenous
habitats in Borneo. General entries overview such topics as climate
change, dam sites, and Native American Concepts of Ecology. The
'Guide to Related Topics' and index provide access to recurring
themes such as deforestation, hydroelectric power, mining, and land
tenure.
The first book to chart autonomy's conceptual growth in Native
American literature from the late eighteenth to the early
twenty-first century, A New Continent of Liberty examines, against
the backdrop of Euro-American literature, how Native American
authors have sought to reclaim and redefine distinctive versions of
an ideal of self-rule grounded in the natural world. Beginning with
the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of
fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca,
Zitkala-Sa, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich,
Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent:
from often desperate early efforts, pitted against the historical
realities of genocide and cultural annihilation, to preserve any
sense of self and community, toward expressions of a resurgent
autonomy that affirm new, iIndigenous models of eunomia, a fertile
blending of human and natural orders.
Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial
America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes
depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian
captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism
have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in
missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity
narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians.
Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to
distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate
with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest
that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence:
repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and
others, Scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were
introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What
other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels,
Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories; the
identification of one's own unfolding story with the stories of
others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses
the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and
cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s,
and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region
during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to
fresh, thought-provoking interpretations.
This title looks at challenging prejudices about the women and
children who beg in Ecuadorian cities. In 1992, Calhuasi, an
isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to
Ecuador's large cities, Calhuasi experienced rapid social-spatial
change, which Kate Swanson richly describes in ""Begging as a Path
to Progress"". Based on nineteen months of fieldwork, Swanson's
study pays particular attention to the ideas and practices
surrounding youth. While begging seems to be inconsistent with - or
even an affront to - ideas about childhood in the developed world,
Swanson demonstrates that the majority of income earned from
begging goes toward funding Ecuadorian children's educations in
hopes of securing more prosperous futures. Examining beggars'
organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which
children can express agency and fulfill personal ambitions through
begging, Swanson argues that Calhuasi's beggars are capable of
canny engagement with the forces of change. She also shows how
frequent movement between rural and urban Ecuador has altered both,
masculinizing the countryside and complicating the Ecuadorian
conflation of whiteness and cities. Finally, her study unpacks
ongoing conflicts over programs to 'clean up' Quito and other major
cities, noting that revanchist efforts have had multiple effects -
spurring more dangerous transnational migration, for example, while
also providing some women and children with tourist-friendly local
spaces in which to sell a notion of Andean authenticity.
Indigenous Counseling is based in universal principals/truths that
promote a way to think about how to live in the world and with one
another that extends beyond the scope of Western European thought.
Individual health and wellness is intricately interwoven into the
relationships that we establish on multiple levels in our lives,
those that we establish with ourselves, with others, and with the
external environments with which we live. From an Indigenous
perspective, health and wellness in our individual lives, families,
community and world, is the result of ancient knowledge that
produces action in a way that is beneficial to all beings on the
planet for generations to come. The current social and political
record of our country now clearly reveals the result of a paradigm
that has outlived its time. No longer can we ignore the core values
of our fields of study; we must take a deeper look into the
academic endeavors that inform the way we pass our cultures' values
on to successive generations. While it has taken Western Science
decades to catch up to Indigenous/Native Science, we now have ample
scientific evidence to support claims of interconnectedness on
multiple levels of individual and collective health.
This book discussed the causes of suicide and provides
recommendations on how to reduce suicide. It provides suicide
solutions that have eluded health and public policy experts for
decades. It is a practical book that provides practical solutions
to convoluted public problem of suicide. It is a good book for
public policy experts, public sector administrators, scholars of
management studies, politicians who want to create and add values,
sociologists, law enforcement officials, health officials, public
policy advocates, and various other decision makers. It is also a
good book for social science scholars and researchers.
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