Research Catalog

Title

Native historians write back : decolonizing American Indian history / edited by Susan A. Miller and James Riding In.

Publication

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Susan A. (Susan Allison)
• Riding In, James

Description

ix, 280 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"A first-of-its-kind anthology of historical articles by Indigenous scholars, framed in assumptions and concepts derived from the authors' respective Indigenous worldviews. Writings stand in sharp contrast to works by historians who may belong to tribes but work within the Euroamerican worldview" --

Subject

• Indians of North America > Historiography
• Indians of North America > History > Sources
• American literature > Indian authors
• Littérature américaine > Auteurs indiens d'Amérique
• Indians of North America
• Geschichtsschreibung
• Entkolonialisierung
• Historiker
• Indianer
• Iwi taketake
• USA

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-267) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: Challenging Colonial Thought. 1. Native America Writes Back : The Origin of the Indigenous Paradigm in Historiography / Susan A. Miller ; 2. Native Historians Write Back : The Indigenous Paradigm in American Indian Historiography / Susan A. Miller ; 3. The Lewis and Clark Story, the Captive Narrative, and the Pitfalls of Indian History / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn ; 4. Hopi Culture and a Matter of Representation / Lomayumtewa C. Ishii -- Part II: Affirming Indigenous Historical Narrative. 5. The United States Has No Jurisdiction in Sioux Territory / Vine Deloria ; 6. Wahtohtana héda Nyútâchi Mahín Xánje Akípa : The Year the Otoe and Missouria Meet the Americans / Matthew L. Jones ; 7. Calling Badger and the Symbols of the Spirit Language : The Cree Origins of the Syllabic System / Winona Stevenson ; 8. Looking after Gdoo-naaganinaa : Precolonial Nishnaabeg Diplomatic and Treaty Relationships / Leanne Simpson -- Part III: Asserting the History of Dispossession. 9. Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People : Indian Removal from a Native Perspective / Donna L. Akers ; 10. Decolonizing the 1862 Death Marches / Waziyatawin Angela Wilson ; 11. The United States v. Yellow Sun et al. (the Pawnee People) : A Case Study of Institutional and Societal Racism and U.S. Justice in Nebraska from the 1850s to the 1870s / James Riding In ; 12. The Ruby Valley Indian Reservation of Northeastern Nevada : "Six Miles Square" / Steven J. Crum -- Part IV: Examining Issues in Light of History. 13. Chairmen, Presidents, and Princesses : The Navajo Nation, Gender, and the Politics of Tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale ; 14. Seminoles and Africans under Seminole Law : Sources and Discourses of Tribal Sovereignty and "Black Indian" Entitlement / Susan A. Miller ; 15. Countering Colonization : The Albuquerque Laguna Colony / Myla Vicenti Carpio ; 16. Six Pawnee Crania : Historical and Contemporary Issues Associated with the Massacre and Decapitation of Pawnee Indians in 1869 / James Riding In.

ISBN

• 9780896727328
• 0896727327
• 9780896726994
• 0896726991

LCCN

• 2011024762
• 40020412837

OCLC

• 724671384
• SCSB-10888990

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library