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Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Feather Cult of the Middle Columbia written by Cora Alice Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert H. Ruby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134307
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau written by Robert H. Ruby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seekers after wisdom have always been drawn to American Indian ritual and symbol. This history of two nineteenth-century Dreamer-Prophets, Smohalla and Skolaskin, will interest those who seek a better understanding of the traditional Native American commitment to Mother Earth, visionary experiences drawn from ceremony, and the promise of revitalization implicit in the Ghost Dance. To white observers, the Dreamers appeared to imitate Christianity by celebrating the sabbath and preaching a covenant with God, nonviolence, and life after death. But the Prophets also advocated adherence to traditional dress and subsistence patterns and to the spellbinding Washat dance. By engaging in this dance and by observing traditional life-ways, the Prophets claimed, the living Indians might bring their dead back to life and drive the whites from the earth. They themselves brought heaven to earth, they said, by “dying, going there, and returning,” in trances induced by the Washat drums. The Prophets’ sacred longhouses became rallying points for resistance to the United States government. As many as two thousand Indians along the Columbia River, from various tribes, followed the Dreamer religion. Although the Dreamers always opposed war, the active phase of the movement was brought to a close in 1889 when the United States Army incarcerated the younger Prophet Skolaskin at Alcatraz. Smohalla died of old age in 1894. Modern Dreamers of the Columbia plateau still celebrate the Feast of the New Foods in springtime as did their spiritual ancestors. This book contains rare modern photographs of their Washat dances. Readers of Indian history and religion will be fascinated by the descriptions of the Dreamer-Prophets’ unique personalities and their adjustments to physical handicaps. Neglected by scholars, their role in the important pan-Indian revitalization movement has awaited the detailed treatment given here by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown.
Author : Scott M. Thompson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295979434
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (794 download)
Download or read book I Will Tell of My War Story written by Scott M. Thompson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thompson reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life. 60 color illustrations.
Author : Donald M. Hines
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780962953903
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (539 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Tribes written by Donald M. Hines and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of annotated legends from the Tenino, Umatilla, and Watlala or Cascades Indians.
Author : William Willard (Writer on anthropology)
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496221052
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Rising from the Ashes written by William Willard (Writer on anthropology) and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising from the Ashes explores continuing Native American political, social, and cultural survival and resilience with a focus on the life of Numiipuu (Nez Perce) anthropologist Archie M. Phinney. He lived through tumultuous times as the Bureau of Indian Affairs implemented the Indian Reorganization Act, and he built a successful career as an indigenous nationalist, promoting strong, independent American Indian nations. Rising from the Ashes analyzes concepts of indigenous nationalism and notions of American Indian citizenship before and after tribes found themselves within the boundaries of the United States. Collaborators provide significant contributions to studies of Numiipuu memory, land, loss, and language; Numiipuu, Palus, and Cayuse survival, peoplehood, and spirituality during nineteenth-century U.S. expansion and federal incarceration; Phinney and his dedication to education, indigenous rights, responsibilities, and sovereign Native Nations; American Indian citizenship before U.S. domination and now; the Jicarilla Apaches' self-actuated corporate model; and Native nation-building among the Numiipuu and other Pacific Northwestern tribal nations. Anchoring the collection is a twenty-first-century analysis of American Indian decolonization, sovereignty, and tribal responsibilities and responses.
Author : Susan Christine Seymour
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803274289
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Cora Du Bois written by Susan Christine Seymour and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change. Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his most eminent students: Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber, and Robert Lowie. During World War II, she served as a high-ranking officer for the Office of Strategic Services as the only woman to head one of the OSS branches of intelligence, Research and Analysis in Southeast Asia. After the war she joined the State Department as chief of the Southeast Asia Branch of the Division of Research for the Far East. She was also the first female full professor, with tenure, appointed at Harvard University and became president of the American Anthropological Association. Du Bois worked to keep her public and private lives separate, especially while facing the FBI's harassment as an opponent of U.S. engagements in Vietnam and as a "liberal" lesbian during the McCarthy era. Susan C. Seymour's biography weaves together Du Bois's personal and professional lives to illustrate this exceptional "first woman" and the complexities of the twentieth century that she both experienced and influenced.
Author : Robert H. Ruby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128658
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (286 download)
Download or read book John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church written by Robert H. Ruby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church (not to be confused with eastern Shakerism. Students of Native American religion and Christianity will find this a moving story both of assimilation and of the curing that is the Shaker Church’s reason for being. The Indian Shaker movement began in 1882 when the charismatic but dissolute Slocum had a vision after a near-death experience. Later his church was led by his wide, Mary Thompson, and early-day leaders such as Mud Bay Louis and Mud Bay Sam. Today church members continue to combine Native American styles of singing, body movement, and verbal declarations with bell ringing, songs, burning candles, and shaking in a unique curing tradition that is honored outside the church particularly for its success in teaching against the use of alcohol. Intense community support, for both leader and patient, is a focal point in the lives of Shaker Church members. Their tradition has endured despite the important differences in members’ tribal backgrounds and religious viewpoints chronicled in this up-to-date account by veteran scholars Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, the first outsiders to have access to church records.
Author : Susan Urmston Philips
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478609958
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book The Invisible Culture written by Susan Urmston Philips and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1992-09-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in the fields of educational anthropology and sociolinguistics, this volume offers much to the understanding of the organization of communication in the classroom. With an approach that balances both theory and application, Philips explores the experience of Warm Springs Indian children in an American school. She reveals the ways in which the daily interactions among the teachers and students place the Indian children in a subordinate position not only by virtue of their status as children and students relative to adult teachers, but also as Indians relative to the dominant Euro-American culture. While this book is ostensibly about the experience of the Warm Springs children, it also expresses important insights for anyone who seeks to understand the role of language in culture.
Author : Keith A. Murray
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806113319
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Modocs and Their War written by Keith A. Murray and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the shores of Tule Lake in northern California, three small bands of Modoc Indians joined forces in the fall and winter of 1872-73 to hold off more than one thousand U.S. soldiers and settlers trying to dislodge them from their ancient refuge in the lava beds.
Author : Barbara Grace Leibhardt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Law, Environment, and Social Change in the Columbia River Basin written by Barbara Grace Leibhardt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ute Gacs
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252060847
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Women Anthropologists written by Ute Gacs and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of information on the lives and work of 58 women whose professional activities include social, cultural, and physical anthropology, archaeology, folklore, linguistics, art, writing, and political activism.
Download or read book The Migration Legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Dodds Schlick
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295972893
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Columbia River Basketry written by Mary Dodds Schlick and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than 40 years association with Native American weavers, including 16 years in residence on Northwest Indian reservations, Schlick presents the artistic but also utilitarian baskets made by the people of the mid-Columbia River in the context of the lives of the people who created and used them. She also writes authoritatively about the gathering and processing of materials, and basketry techniques. Including 191 illustrations, 56 in color, this lovely volume is both a sourcebook for basket weavers and a reference for scholars, curators, and collectors. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Larry Cebula
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803203099
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850 written by Larry Cebula and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850. ø For the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau, the arrival of whites was understood primarily as a spiritual event, calling for religious explanations. Between 1700 and 1806, Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau experienced the presence of whites indirectly through the arrival of horses, some trade goods by long-distance exchange, and epidemic diseases that decimated their population and shook their faith in their religious beliefs. Many responded by participating in the Prophet Dance movement to restore their frayed links to the spirit world. ø When whites arrived in the early nineteenth century, the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau were more concerned with learning about white people's religious beliefs and spiritual power than with acquiring their trade goods; trading posts were seen as windows into another world rather than sources of goods. The whites? strange appearance and seeming immunity to disease and the unique qualities of their goods and technologies suggested great spiritual power to the Native peoples. But disillusionment awaited: Catholic and Protestant missionaries came to teach the Native peoples about Christianity, yet these white spiritual practices failed to protect them from a new round of epidemic disease. By 1850, with their world devastatingly altered, most Plateau Indians had rejected Christianity
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Walam Olum written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Spier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Prophet Dance of the Northwest and Its Derivatives: the Source of the Ghost Dance written by Leslie Spier and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Crawford O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209060
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Coming Full Circle written by Suzanne Crawford O'Brien and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming Full Circle is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between spirituality and health in several contemporary Coast Salish and Chinook communities in western Washington from 1805 to 2005. Suzanne Crawford O'Brien examines how these communities define what it means to be healthy, and how recent tribal community-based health programs have applied this understanding to their missions and activities. She also explores how contemporary definitions, goals, and activities relating to health and healing are informed by Coast Salish history and also by indigenous spiritual views of the body, which are based on an understanding of the relationship between self, ecology, and community. Coming Full Circle draws on a historical framework in reflecting on contemporary tribal health-care efforts and the ways in which they engage indigenous healing traditions alongside twenty-first-century biomedicine. The book makes a strong case for the current shift toward tribally controlled care, arguing that local, culturally distinct ways of healing and understanding illness must be a part of contemporary Native healthcare. Combining in-depth archival research, extensive ethnographic participant-based field work, and skillful scholarship on theories of religion and embodiment, Crawford O'Brien offers an original and masterful analysis of contemporary Native Americans and their worldviews.
