American Indian studies: an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary issues.

XVIII, 430 S., Abb. Lightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Foreword, Ron Welburn - Preface, Dane Morrison -- IN THE WORLD -- I. History, Language, Identity -- 1. "In Whose Hands Is the Telling of the Tale?", Dane Morrison -- 2. The Native Languages of North America: Structure and Survival, Sally Midgette -- 3. Kill the Indian, Save the Child: Cultural Genocide and the Boarding School, Debra K. S. Barker -- RECLAIMING POWER -- II. Educational Strategies -- 4. American Indian Education, Wayne J. Stein -- 5. The Case for Native American Studies, Jon Reyhner -- 6. Why Native American Studies? A Canadian First Nations Perspective, William Asikihack -- III. Economic Survival -- 7. Taking up the Challenge: Fundamental Principles of Economic Development in Indian Country, Miriam R. Jorgensen -- 8. American Indians and Gambling: Economic and Social Impacts, Wayne J. Stein -- 9. Native American Industry: Basket Weaving among the Wabanaki, Pauleena MacDougall -- IV. Spirit and Power -- 10. The Catholic Missions to the Native Americans, Ross Enochs -- 11. Stolen Spirits: An Illustrative Case of Indigenous Survival Through Religious Freedom, Gabrielle A. Tayac -- 12. "The Supreme Law of the Land": Sources of Conflict between Native Americans and the Constitutional Order, Eric Mazur -- PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS -- V. Voices and Words -- 13. Place, Vision, and Identity in Native American Literatures, Robert M. Nelson -- 14. Native American Imaginative Spaces, Irene Moser -- 15. Building on the Myth: Recovering Native American Culture in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace, Tom Matchie -- 16. "What Does It Tell Us That We Are So Easily Deceived?" Impostor Indians, Laura Browder -- VI. Images and Icons -- 17. Tomahawkin' the Redskins: "Indian" Images in Sports and Commerce, Jane Frazier -- 18. Refraining the Hollywood Indian: A Feminist Re-reading of Powwow Highway and Thunderheart, Ellen L. Arnold -- 19. Broken Arrows: Images of Native Americans in the Popular Western, Mary Alice Money -- VII. "A Usable Indian": The Current Controversy in Museums -- 20. The Politics of Repatriation, Dan L. Monroe -- 21. Museums and American Indians: Ambivalent Partners Karen Coody Cooper. ISBN 0820439169

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