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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.
Indigenous Activism profiles eighteen American Indian women of the
twentieth century who distinguished themselves through their
political activism. Authors analyze the colorful careers of
selected Indigenous women of North America during the last century,
including Ramona Bennet, Mary Crow Dog, Ada Deer, LaDonna Harris,
Wilma Mankiller, Alyce Spotted Bear, Irene Toledo, Marie Potts,
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Harriette Shelton Dover, Lucy Covington,
Dolly Smith Cusker Akers, Leslie Marmon Silko, Bea Medicine, and
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
This new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who
lived during the Antebellum period in American history. Part of The
Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid
portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raising new
questions from fresh perspectives, this volume contributes to a
broader understanding of the dynamic forces that shaped the
political, economic, social, and institutional changes that
characterized the antebellum period. Moving beyond the older,
outdated historical narratives of political institutions and the
great men who shaped them, these biographies offer revealing
insights on gender roles and relations, working-class experiences,
race, and local economic change and its effect on society and
politics. The voices of these ordinary individuals-African
Americans, women, ethnic groups, and workers-have until recently
often been silent in history texts. At the same time, these
biographies also reveal the major themes that were part of the
history of the early republic and antebellum era, including the
politics of the Jacksonian era, the democratization of politics and
society, party formation, market revolution, territorial expansion,
the removal of Indians from their territory, religious freedom, and
slavery. Accessible and fascinating, these biographies present a
vivid picture of the richly varied character of American life in
the first half of the nineteenth century. This book is ideal for
courses on the Early National period, U.S. history survey, and
American social and cultural history.
This complete overview of the Choctaw people, from ancient times to
the present, includes sections on history, cuisine, music and
dance, current issues, oral traditions and language, social
relationships, and traditional world view. Endeavoring to replace
stereotypical images with a more accurate understanding of Native
Americans, Culture and Customs of the Choctaw Indians explores the
traditional lives of the Choctaw people, their history and
oppression by the dominant society, and their struggles to maintain
a unique identity in the face of overwhelming pressures to
assimilate. The book begins with a historical overview of
traditional Choctaw life, belief systems, social customs, and
traditions. Moving to contemporary Choctaw communities, it looks at
the modern-day Choctaw and the important issues they face. Separate
chapters cover cuisine, social and kinship systems, oral
traditions, arts, music, and dance, as well as current issues and
tribal politics. Readers will see how many Choctaw people blend
traditional beliefs with participation in and knowledge of the
dominant society and economy, while continuing to speak and teach
the Choctaw language and traditions in homes, churches, and
schools. An extensive chronology includes major events and changing
conditions among the Choctaw, from ancient times until the present
Includes dozens of photographs as well as maps that detail the loss
of Choctaw lands through dealings with the United States
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
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