Research Catalog

Title

A will to survive : indigenous essays on the politics of culture, language, and identity / edited by Stephen Greymorning.

Publication

Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Greymorning, Stephen

Description

xxii, 224, [7] p. : ill., 1 map; 24 cm.

Summary

"In A Will to Survive, Stephen Greymorning introduces students to the voices of the indigenous people they are studying, to get a real sense of what it means to live in today;s world as an indigenous person. Greymorning has compiled a much needed anthology which illustrates differing perspectives, past experiences, and present concerns. He has edited the contributions so that they are accessible for college-level students. The anthology combines timely, scholarly and personal stories in one cohesive volume. The book presents readers with the perspectives of 14 indigenous scholars, speaking with Indigenous political voices and writing about issues that impact them and their peoples from an insider;s view. The essays are organized in such a way as to blend language, culture, and identity, issues of great concern to Indigenous peoples, in order to bring a greater depth of understanding to readers interested in issues and challenges faced by indigenous people."--Pub. desc.

Subject

• Indigenous peoples > Ethnic identity
• Indigenous peoples > Government relations
• Indians > Ethnic identity
• Indians, Treatment of
• Ethnophilosophy
• Language and culture
• Language revival

Genre/Form

• Essays
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, videography and list of websites (p. [1-7], 2nd group).

Language (note)

• English; part of 1 chapter in Hawaiian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Culture and language : political realities to keep trickster at bay / Stephen Greymorning (Arapaho) -- The staying force of inuit knowledge / Peter Irniq Commissioner of Nunavut (Inuit) -- Eualeyai : the blood that runs through my veins / Larissa Behrendt (Aboriginal Australian) -- Of this red Earth / Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne-Arapaho).
• A question of identity / Ward Churchill (Cherokee) -- Colonization as myth-making : a case study in Aotearoa / Moana Jackson (Maori) -- From sovereignty to freedom / Taiaiake Alfred (Mohawk) -- She must be civilized : she paints her toe nails / Sharon Venne (Cree).
• The lessons of Coyote and the medicine tree / Arleen Adams (Salish-Kootenai) -- Mayan ways of knowing: modern Mayans and the Elders / Victor Montejo (Mayan) -- Tararua is my moutain / Rachael Selby (Maori).
• A culture in crisis / Bonnie Heavy-Runner (Blackfeet) -- A culture in renaissance / Stephen Greymorning and Darrell Robes Kipp (Blackfeet), Executive Director of Nizipuhwahsin center -- Reflection and feelings deriving from a Pulakaumaka within my heart / Kauanoe Kamanā (hawaiian) -- Hinono'eitiino'oowu' and the work of language survival / Hiitoo3oobetit Neniice'ooke (Stephen Greymorning).

ISBN

007249638X (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003046400

OCLC

• 51886483
• SCSB-10507986

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library