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This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring
historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The
lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people
and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and
accomplishments in many areas of life. This work highlights women
during the modern era of American history, countering past
stereotypes of Native women. With the exceptions of Pocahontas and
Sacajawea, historians have had little to say about American Indian
women who have played key roles in the history of their tribes,
their relationship with others, and the history of the United
States. Indigenous women featured herein distinguished themselves
as fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, potters, basket makers,
musicians, and dancers. Other women contributed as notable
educators and women working in health and medicine. They are
representative of many women within the Native Universe who
excelled in their lives to enrich the American experience.
Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in
native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done
on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation
period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Forgotten Voices:
Death Records of the Yakama, 1888-1964 begins a discussion of the
health of the people on the Yakama Reservation in Washington using
statistical data. This is the first detailed work that focuses on
the causes of death on American Indian reservations. It contains an
extensive introduction to Yakama history and lifestyle, and tables
that present statistical information on the major causes of death.
Each chapter highlights a different cause of death on the Yakama
Reservation, including * Tuberculosis * Pneumonia * Heart Disease *
Gastrointestinal Problems * Influenza * Cancer * Birth
Complications * Old Age * Stroke Forgotten Voices is an invaluable
resource for students and scholars that encourages further research
in the field of Native American history.
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast
region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and
from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, "A
Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest "has served as
a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of
renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects
the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments
shaping these Native communities.
From such well-known tribes as the Nez Perces and Cayuses to
lesser-known bands previously presumed "extinct," this guide offers
detailed descriptions, in alphabetical order, of 150 Pacific
Northwest tribes. Each entry provides information on the history,
location, demographics, and cultural traditions of the particular
tribe.
Among the new features offered here are an expanded selection of
photographs, updated reading lists, and a revised pronunciation
guide. While continuing to provide succinct histories of each
tribe, the volume now also covers such contemporary--and sometimes
controversial--issues as Indian gaming and NAGPRA. With its
emphasis on Native voices and tribal revitalization, this new
edition of the" Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific
Northwest" is certain to be a definitive reference for many years
to come.
Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American
communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic
well being. However, it is still too often the case that both
theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native
American perspectives on the range of factors that actually
contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in
Medicine Ways examine the ways people from a multitude of
indigenous communities think about and practice health care within
historical and socio-cultural contexts. Cultural and physical
survival are inseparable for Native Americans. Chapters explore
biomedically-identified diseases, such as cancer and diabetes, as
well as Native-identified problems, including historical and
contemporary experiences such as forced evacuation, assimilation,
boarding school, poverty and a slew of federal and state policies
and initiatives. They also explore applied solutions that are based
in community prerogatives and worldviews, whether they be
indigenous, Christian, biomedical, or some combination of all
three. Medicine Ways is an important volume for scholars and
students in Native American studies, medical anthropology, and
sociology as well as for health practitioners and professionals
working in and for tribes. Visit the UCLA American Indian Studies
Center web site
Essential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and
architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in
one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by
noted national and regional scholars, such as Donald W. Meinig,
Carlos A. Schwantes, Henry Matthews, Clifford E. Trafzer, and
Harvey S. Rice. Spokane and the Inland Empire outlines the region's
historical geographic systems, Palouse tribal history,
characteristics of prehistoric Plateau Indian dwellings, a century
of Columbia Plateau agriculture, Spokane's bitter labor disputes
that occurred prior to America's entry into World War I, the
exceptional architecture of Spokane's Kirtland Cutter, and more.
This new edition has been revised from the original volume
published in 1991. Extensive illustrations supplement the text.
The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern
California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This
small, nomadic band of Southern Paiute Indians has been repeatedly
marginalized by European settlers, other Native groups, and, until
now, historical narratives that have all too often overlooked them.
Having survived much of the past two centuries without rights to
their homeland or any self-governing abilities, the Chemehuevi were
a mostly “forgotten” people until the creation of the
Twenty-Nine Palms Reservation in 1974. Since then, they have formed
a tribal government that addresses many of the same challenges
faced by other tribes, including preserving cultural identity and
managing a thriving gaming industry. A dedicated historian who
worked closely with the Chemehuevi for more than a decade, Clifford
Trafzer shows how this once-splintered tribe persevered using
sacred songs and other cultural practices to maintain tribal
identity during the long period when it lacked both a homeland and
autonomy. The Chemehuevi believe that their history and their
ancestors are always present, and Trafzer honors that belief
through his emphasis on individual and family stories. In doing so,
he not only sheds light on an overlooked tribe but also presents an
important new model for tribal history scholarship. A Chemehuevi
Song strikes the difficult balance of placing a community-driven
research agenda within the latest currents of indigenous studies
scholarship. Chemehuevi voices, both past and present, are used to
narrate the story of the tribe’s tireless efforts to gain
recognition and autonomy. The end result is a song of resilience.
The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern
California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This
small, nomadic band of Southern Paiute Indians has been repeatedly
marginalized by European settlers, other Native groups, and, until
now, historical narratives that have all too often overlooked them.
Having survived much of the past two centuries without rights to
their homeland or any self-governing abilities, the Chemehuevi were
a mostly "forgotten" people until the creation of the Twenty-Nine
Palms Reservation in 1974. Since then, they have formed a tribal
government that addresses many of the same challenges faced by
other tribes, including preserving cultural identity and managing a
thriving gaming industry. A dedicated historian who worked closely
with the Chemehuevi for more than a decade, Clifford Trafzer shows
how this once-splintered tribe persevered using sacred songs and
other cultural practices to maintain tribal identity during the
long period when it lacked both a homeland and autonomy. The
Chemehuevi believe that their history and their ancestors are
always present, and Trafzer honors that belief through his emphasis
on individual and family stories. In doing so, he not only sheds
light on an overlooked tribe but also presents an important new
model for tribal history scholarship. A Chemehuevi Song strikes the
difficult balance of placing a community-driven research agenda
within the latest currents of indigenous studies scholarship.
Chemehuevi voices, both past and present, are used to narrate the
story of the tribe's tireless efforts to gain recognition and
autonomy. The end result is a song of resilience.
Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native
Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding
school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of
their own making. Sometimes the monster swallowed them up. More
often, though, the children fought the monster and grew stronger.
This volume draws on the full breadth of this experience in showing
how American Indian boarding schools provided both positive and
negative influences for Native American children. The boarding
schools became an integral part of American history, a shared
history that resulted in Indians turning the power by using their
school experiences to grow in wisdom and benefit their people. The
first volume of essays ever to focus on the American Indian
boarding school experience, and written by some of the foremost
experts and most promising young scholars of the subject, Boarding
School Blues ranges widely in scope, addressing issues such as
sports, runaways, punishment, physical plants, and Christianity.
aboriginal people of the Americas and Australia, the book reveals
both the light and the dark aspects of the boarding school
experience and illuminates the vast gray area in between. Clifford
E. Trafzer is a professor of American Indian history, director of
public history, and director of graduate studies at the University
of California, Riverside. His many books include As Long as the
Grass Shall Grow and Rivers Flow: A History of Native Americans.
Jean A. Keller is an adjunct professor of American Indian studies
at Palomar College in San Marcos, California, and a private
cultural resources consultant. She is the author of Empty Beds:
Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902-1922. Lorene
Sisquoc is the curator of the Sherman Indian Museum in Riverside,
California. She teaches Native American traditions to high school
students and instructs extension classes in Native American
studies.
Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power,
protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the
Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon,
medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans
in their relationships with each other and the natural world. Many
American Indians-past and present-have had the ability to use power
to access wisdom, knowledge, and spiritual understanding. This
groundbreaking collection provides fascinating stories of wisdom,
spiritual power, and forces within tribal communities that have
influenced the past and may influence the future. Through
discussions of omens, prophecies, war, peace, ceremony, ritual, and
cultural items such as masks, prayer sticks, sweat lodges, and
peyote, this volume offers examples of the ways in which Native
American beliefs in spirits have been and remain a fundamental
aspect of history and culture. Drawing from written and oral
sources, the book offers readers a greater understanding of
creation narratives, oral histories, and songs that speak of
healers, spirits, and power from tribes across the North American
continent. American Indian medicine ways and spiritual power remain
vital today. With the help of spirits, people can heal the sick,
protect communities from natural disasters, and mediate power of
many kinds between the spiritual and temporal worlds. As the
contributors to this volume illustrate, healers are the connective
cloth between the ancient past and the present, and their influence
is significant for future generations. Contributors: R. David
Edmunds, Joe Herring, Benjamin T. Jenkins, Troy Johnson, Al Logan
Slagle, Michelle Lorimer, L. G. Moses, Richard D. Scheuerman,
Clifford E. Trafzer.
Native Americans long resisted Western medicine - but had less
power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as
the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of
health and medicine, Native peoples reluctantly began to allow
Western medicine into their communities. Fighting Invisible Enemies
traces this transition among inhabitants of the Mission Indian
Agency of Southern California from the late nineteenth through the
mid-twentieth century. What historian Clifford E. Trafzer describes
is not so much a transition from one practice to another as a
gradual incorporation of Western medicine into Indian medical
practices. Melding indigenous and medical history specific to
Southern California, his book combines statistical information and
documents from the federal government with the oral narratives of
several tribes. Many of these oral histories - detailing
traditional beliefs about disease causation, medical practices, and
treatment - are unique to this work, the product of the author's
close and trusted relationships with tribal elders. Trafzer
examines the years of interaction that transpired before Native
people allowed elements of Western medicine and health care into
their lives, homes, and communities. Among the factors he cites as
impelling the change were settler-borne diseases, the negative
effects of federal Indian policies, and the sincere desire of both
Indians and agency doctors and nurses to combat the spread of
disease. Here we see how, unlike many encounters between Indians
and non-Indians in Southern California, this cooperative effort
proved positive and constructive, resulting in fewer deaths from
infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. The first study of
its kind, Trafzer's work fills gaps in Native American, medical,
and Southern California history. It informs our understanding of
the working relationship between indigenous and Western medical
traditions and practices as it continues to develop today.
Throughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest
actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional
territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand
Palouses, Spokanes, and Coeur d'Alenes routed an invading force
commanded by Colonel Edward Steptoe. In response, Colonel George
Wright mounted a large expedition into the heart of the Columbia
Plateau to punish and subdue its Native peoples. Opposing Wright's
force was a loose confederacy of tribes led by the famous warrior
Kamiakin.
Indian War in the Pacific Northwest is a vivid and valuable
first-person account of that aggressive and bloody military
campaign. Related by Lawrence Kip, a young lieutenant serving under
Wright, it provides a rare glimpse of military operations and
campaign life along the far western frontier before the Civil War.
Replete with colorful prose and acute observations, his journal is
also notable for its dramatic descriptions of clashes with
Kamiakin's men and compelling portraits of leading figures on both
sides of the Plateau Indian War.
The new introduction provides the historical and cultural
background and aftermath of the conflict, explores its effects on
present-day Native peoples of the Columbia Plateau, and critically
assesses Kip's observations and interpretations. Also included in
this Bison Books edition are two Native accounts of the conflict by
Kamiakin and Mary Moses.
Images of the California Gold Rush ignite imaginations with visions
of hearty minors clad in floppy felt hats, red flannel shirts,
tattered Levis, and scuffed leather boots. Popular media depict
miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers
along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in
the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer
destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original
newspaper articles that describe in detail the murder, rape, and
enslavement perpetrated by those who participated in the infamous
gold rush. "It is a mercy to the Red Devils", wrote an editor of
the Chico Courier: "to exterminate them". Newspaper accounts of the
era depict both the barbarity and the nobility in human nature, but
while some protested the inhumane treatment of Native Americans,
they were not able to end the violence. Native Americans fought
back, resisting the invasion, but they could not stop the tide of
white miners and settlers. They became "strangers in a stolen
land".
A vibrant, vital anthology of stories that portray the lives of Native Americans today, featuring the work of N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and more than two dozen other gifted, authentic voices.
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