American Indian persistence and resurgence

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American Indian persistence and resurgence

edited by Karl Kroeber

Duke University Press, 1994

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  • : pbk

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"A Boundary 2 book."

All but one essay reprinted from Boundary 2, v. 19, no. 3

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States has seen an astonishing demographic growth reaching beyond all biological probability as increasing numbers of Americans desire to admit or to claim Native American ancestry. This volume illustrates a unique moment in history, as unprecedented numbers of Native Americans seek to create a powerful, flexible sense of cultural identity. Diverse commentators, including literary critics, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, poets and a novelist address persistent issues facing Native Americans and Native American studies today. The future of White-Indian relation, the viability of Pan-Indianism, tensions between Native Americans and North American anthropologists, and new devlopments in ethnohistory are among the topics discussed. The survival of Native Americans as recorded in this collection, an expanded edition of a special issue of boundary 2, brings into focus the dynamically adaptive values of Native American culture. Native Americans' persistence in U.S. culture-not disappearing under the pressure to assimilate or through genocidal warfare-reminds us of the extent to which any living culture is defined by the process of transformation. Contributors. Linda Ainsworth, Jonathan Boyarin, Raymomd J. DeMallie, Elaine Jahner, Karl Kroeber, William Overstreet, Douglas R. Parks, Katharine Pearce, Jarold Ramsey, Wendy Rose, Edward H. Spicer, Gerald Vizenor, Priscilla Wald

Table of Contents

Native American Resistance and Removal / Karl Kroeber 1 The Nations of a State/ Preface by Rosamond B. Spicer / Edward H. Spicer 27 An Interview with Jack Salzman, Director of the Columbia University Center for American Culture Studies / Karl Kroeber 50 The Navajo Nightway and the Western Gaze / William Overstreet 58 Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation / Priscilla Wald 78 Plains Indian Native Literatures / Douglas R. Parks and Raymond J. DeMallie 106 Transitional Narratives and Culture Continuity / Elaine A. Jahner 149 Francis LaFlesche's "The Song of Flying Crow" and the Limits of Ethnography / Jarold Ramsey 181 Europe's Indian, America's Jew: Modiano and Vizenor / Jonathan Boyarin 198 Manifest Manners: The Long Gaze of Christopher Columbus / Gerald Vizenor 224 If Texts are Prayers, What do Wintu Want? / Linda Ainsworth 237 December 1880-1990 / Wendy Rose 248 Retrieving Osceola's Head, Okemah, Oklahoma, June 1985 / Wendy Rose 250 Own / Katharine Pearce 252 Index 253 Contributors 259

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