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Native American poet Simon Ortiz traces the progress of Native
Americans from the time of creation to the present.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, most photographs of
Indians pandered to shameless, insensitive stereotypes. In
contrast, photographic portraits made by Frank A. Rinehart conveyed
the dignity and pride of Native peoples. More than 545 Native
Americans representing tribes from all over the country attended
the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha in 1898
to be part of an event known as the Indian Congress. Rinehart, the
expositionas official photographer, and his assistant Adolph Muhr
made more than 500 glass-plate negatives depicting Native Americans
in their traditional dress, now housed at Haskell Indian Nations
University and regarded as one of the best photographic
documentations of Indian leaders from this era. This book provides
an unusual perspective on the Rinehart collection. It features one
hundred outstanding images printed from the original negatives made
by Rinehart and Muhr at the Congress and over the course of the
next two years. It also includes 14 essays by modern Native
American writers, artists, and educators--some of them descendants
of the individuals photographed--reflecting on the place of these
images in their heritage. "Beyond the Reach of Time and Change" is
not another coffee-table book of historical Indian photographs but
rather a conversation between Indian people of a century ago and
today. Just as the Rinehart collection offers today's Native
Americans a unique connection to the past, this book offers all
readers a positive understanding of continuity and endurance within
the American Indian community.
An updated edition of a seminal work on the history of land
ownership in the SouthwestIn New Mexico - once a Spanish colony,
then part of Mexico - Pueblo Indians and descendants of Spanish-
and Mexican-era settlers still think of themselves as distinct
peoples, each with a dynamic history. At the core of these
persistent cultural identities is each group's historical
relationship to the others and to the land, a connection that
changed dramatically when the United States wrested control of the
region from Mexico in 1848. In Roots of Resistance - now offered in
an updated paperback edition - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz provides a
history of land ownership in northern New Mexico from 1680 to the
present. She shows how indigenous and Mexican farming communities
adapted and preserved their fundamental democratic social and
economic institutions, despite losing control of their land to
capitalist entrepreneurs and becoming part of a low-wage labor
force. In a new final chapter, Dunbar-Ortiz applies the lessons of
this history to recent conflicts in New Mexico over ownership and
use of land and control of minerals, timber, and water.
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