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"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So
begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the
revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa
Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe's
Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of
the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition,
undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and
medicine women and details found in museum archives,
anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in
Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people
transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of
young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a
framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a
broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this
renaissance of women's coming-of-age ceremonies confounds
ethnographic depictions of Native women; challenges anthropological
theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age; and
addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native
communities.
From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted
objections from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who already
operated a lucrative casino in the region. Brook Colley's in-depth
case study unravels the history of this disagreement and challenges
the way conventional media characterizes intertribal casino
disputes in terms of corruption and greed. Instead, she locates
these conflicts within historical, social, and political contexts
of colonization. Through extensive interviews, Colley brings to the
forefront Indigenous perspectives on intertribal conflict related
to tribal gaming. She reveals how casino economies affect the
relationship between gaming tribes and federal and state
governments, and the repercussions for the tribes themselves.
Ultimately, Colley's engaging examination explores strategies for
reconciliation and cooperation, emphasizing narratives of
resilience and tribal sovereignty.
"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So
begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the
revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa
Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe's
Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of
the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition,
undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and
medicine women and details found in museum archives,
anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in
Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people
transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of
young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a
framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a
broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this
renaissance of women's coming-of-age ceremonies confounds
ethnographic depictions of Native women; challenges anthropological
theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age; and
addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native
communities.
From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted
objections from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who already
operated a lucrative casino in the region. Brook Colley's in-depth
case study unravels the history of this disagreement and challenges
the way conventional media characterizes intertribal casino
disputes in terms of corruption and greed. Instead, she locates
these conflicts within historical, social, and political contexts
of colonization. Through extensive interviews, Colley brings to the
forefront Indigenous perspectives on intertribal conflict related
to tribal gaming. She reveals how casino economies affect the
relationship between gaming tribes and federal and state
governments, and the repercussions for the tribes themselves.
Ultimately, Colley's engaging examination explores strategies for
reconciliation and cooperation, emphasizing narratives of
resilience and tribal sovereignty.
An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the
experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the
course of more than five centuries "Thrush has certainly offered a
powerful corrective to the usual geographies imagined for
Indigenous people in the past, as well as a new layer to the
palimpsest history of Britain's imperial capital."-Kate Fullagar,
William and Mary Quarterly London is famed both as the ancient
center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering
complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London, historian Coll
Thrush offers an imaginative vision of the city's past crafted from
an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children,
women, and men who traveled there, willingly or otherwise, from
territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the
United States, beginning in the sixteenth century. They included
captives and diplomats, missionaries and shamans, poets and
performers. Some, like the Powhatan noblewoman Pocahontas, are
familiar; others, like an Odawa boy held as a prisoner of war, have
almost been lost to history. In drawing together their stories and
their diverse experiences with a changing urban culture, Thrush
also illustrates how London learned to be a global, imperial city
and how Indigenous people were central to that process.
The imagined ghosts of Native Americans have been an important
element of colonial fantasy in North America ever since European
settlements were established in the seventeenth century. Native
burial grounds and Native ghosts have long played a role in both
regional and local folklore and in the national literature of the
United States and Canada, as settlers struggled to create a new
identity for themselves that melded their European heritage with
their new, North American frontier surroundings. In this
interdisciplinary volume, Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush bring
together scholars from a variety of fields to discuss this North
American fascination with “the phantom Native American.”
Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence explores the importance of
ancestral spirits and historic places in Indigenous and settler
communities as they relate to territory and history—in particular
cultural, political, social, historical, and environmental
contexts. From examinations of how individuals reacted to
historical cases of “hauntings,” to how Native phantoms have
functioned in the literature of North Americans, to
interdisciplinary studies of how such beliefs and narratives
allowed European settlers and Indigenous people to make sense of
the legacies of colonialism and conquest, these essays show how the
past and the present are intertwined through these stories.
This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story
to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's
Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the
experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle
grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city and the development
of a multi-tribal urban community, as well as the role Native
Americans have played in the narrative of Seattle.
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