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This first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833-1926) and the
organization she cofounded, the Women's National Indian Association
(WNIA), offers a nuanced insight into the intersection of gender,
race, religion, and politics in our shared history. Author Valerie
Sherer Mathes shows how Quinton, like Helen Hunt Jackson, was a
true force for reform and progress who was nonetheless constrained
by the assimilationist convictions of her time. The WNIA, which
Quinton cofounded with Mary Lucinda Bonney in 1879, was organized
expressly to press for a "more just, protective, and fostering
Indian policy," but also to promote the assimilation of the Indian
through Christianization and "civilization." Charismatic and
indefatigable, Quinton garnered support for the WNIA's work by
creating strong working relationships with leaders of the main
reform groups, successive commissioners of Indian affairs,
secretaries of the interior, and prominent congressmen. The WNIA's
powerful network of friends formed a hybrid organization: religious
in its missionary society origins but also political, using its
powers to petition and actively address public opinion. Mathes
follows the organization as it evolved from its initial focus on
evangelizing Indian women-and promoting Victorian society's ideals
of "true womanhood"-through its return to its missionary roots,
establishing over sixty missionary stations, supporting physicians
and teachers, and building houses, chapels, schools, and hospitals.
With reference to Quinton's voluminous writings-including her
letters, speeches, and newspaper articles-as well as to WNIA
literature, Mathes draws a complex picture of an organization that
at times ignored traditional Indian practices and denied individual
agency, even as it provided dispossessed and impoverished people
with health care and adequate housing. And at the center of this
picture we find Quinton, a woman and reformer of her time.
At one time there were almost as many different versions of the
Quechan creation story as there were Quechan families. Now few
people remember them. This volume, presented in the Quechan
language with facing-column translation, provides three views of
the origins of the Quechan people. One synthesizes narrator George
Bryant's childhood memories and later research. The second is based
upon J. P. Harrington's A Yuma Account of Origins (1908). The third
provides a modern view of the origins of the Quechan, beginning
with the migration from Asia to the New World and ending with the
settlement of the Yuman tribes at their present locations.
On June 11, 1950, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an obituary
under the bold headline 'Chief Thunderwater, Famous in Cleveland 50
Years, Dies.' And there, it seems, the consensus on Thunderwater
ends. Was he, as many say, a con artist and an imposter posing as
an Indian who lead a political movement that was a cruel hoax? Or
was he a Native activist who worked tirelessly and successfully to
promote Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, sovereignty in Canada? The
truth about this enigmatic figure, so long obscured by vying
historical narratives, emerges clearly in Gerald F. Reid's
biography, Chief Thunderwater-the first full portrait of a central
character in twentieth-century Iroquois history. Searching out
Thunderwater's true identity, Reid documents Thunderwater's life
from his birth in 1865, as Oghema Niagara, through his turns as a
performer of Indian identity and, alternately, as a dedicated
advocate of Indian rights. After nearly a decade as an entertainer
in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Thunderwater became progressively
more engaged in Haudenosaunee political affairs-first in New York
and then in Quebec and Ontario. As Reid shows, Thunderwater's
advocacy for Haudenosaunee sovereignty sparked alarm within
Canada's Department of Indian Affairs, which moved forcefully to
discredit Thunderwater and dismantle his movement. Self-promoter,
political activist, entrepreneur: Reid's critical study reveals
Thunderwater in all his contradictions and complexity-a complicated
man whose story expands our understanding of Native life in the
early modern era, and whose movement represents a key moment in the
development of modern Haudenosaunee nationalism.
This book explores diverse relationships at play in integrating
Indigenous knowledges and Western Science in curricula. The readers
will unravel ways in which history, policy, and relationships with
local Indigenous communities play a role in developing and
implementing 'cross-cultural' science curricula in schools.
Incorporating stories from multiple individuals involved in
curriculum development and implementation - university professors,
a ministry consultant, a First Nations and Metis Education
coordinator, and most importantly, classroom teachers - this book
offers suggestions for education stakeholders at different levels.
Focusing on the importance of understanding 'relationships at
play', this book also shows the author's journey in re/search,
wherein she grapples with both Indigenous and Western research
frameworks. Featuring a candid account of this journey from
research preparation to writing, this book also offers insights on
the relationships at play in doing re/search that respects
Indigenous ways of coming to know.
For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the
effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great
economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling
governments over their regions' hydrocarbon resources. In "Oil
Sparks in the Amazon," Patricia I. Vasquez writes that while oil
busts and civil wars are common, the tension over oil in the Amazon
has played out differently, in a way inextricable from the region
itself.
Oil disputes in the Amazon primarily involve local indigenous
populations. These groups' social and cultural identities differ
from the rest of the population, and the diverse disputes over
land, displacement, water contamination, jobs, and wealth
distribution reflect those differences. Vasquez spent fifteen years
traveling to the oilproducing regions of Latin America, conducting
hundreds of interviews with the stakeholders in local conflicts.
She analyzes fifty-five social and environmental clashes related to
oil and gas extraction in the Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and
Colombia). She also examines what triggers local hydrocarbons
disputes and offers policy recommendations to resolve or prevent
them.
Vasquez argues that each case should be analyzed with attention to
its specific sociopolitical and economic context. She shows how the
key to preventing disputes that lead to local conflicts is to
address structural flaws (such as poor governance and inadequate
legal systems) and nonstructural flaws (such as stakeholders'
attitudes and behavior) at the outset. Doing this will require more
than strong political commitments to ensure the equitable
distribution of oil and gas revenues. It will require attention to
the local values and culture as well.
International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity
and Social Justice is an international research monograph of
scholarly works that are seeking to advance knowledge and
understanding of a diverse range of Indigenous or First Peoples
across the globe. With the overarching emphasis being towards
education, this collection of works outlines the unique history,
policy, and lived experiences of Indigenous peoples within
education systems around the world. The volume itself is split into
three sections that offer: (i) an overview of the past and current
educational conditions of Indigenous peoples; (ii) policy and
practice aimed at enhancing cultural inclusiveness and resisting
deculturalization, and (iii) finally the identification of
pedagogical factors that may be important for the educational
progress of a diversity of Indigenous students. Overall, this
volume will act as a valuable source for those seeking to maintain
and restore Indigenous cultures and languages within the education
system, as well as identifying other methods and practices that may
increase the engagement and resilience of Indigenous students
within a variety of education settings. As a result, this
collection of works will be a valuable tool for educators,
researchers, policy makers, and school counselors who may be
seeking to further understand the experiences of Indigenous
students within the education system.
Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains
Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special
significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate
and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role
models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies
serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic
identity.
Previous scholarship has offered only glimpses of Kiowa military
societies. William C. Meadows now provides a detailed account of
the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical
development of each society: Rabbits, Mountain Sheep, Horses
Headdresses, Black Legs, Skunkberry /Unafraid of Death, Scout Dogs,
Kiowa Bone Strikers, and Omaha, as well as past and present women's
groups.
Two dozen illustrations depict personages and ceremonies, and an
appendix provides membership rosters from the late 1800s.
The most comprehensive description ever published on Kiowa
military societies, this work is unmatched by previous studies in
its level of detail and depth of scholarship. It demonstrates the
evolution of these groups within the larger context of American
Indian history and anthropology, while documenting and preserving
tribal traditions.
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