Research Catalog

Title

Medicine trail : the life and lessons of Gladys Tantaquidgeon / Melissa Jayne Fawcett.

Author

Zobel, Melissa Tantaquidgeon, 1960-

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xvi, 177 pages : illustrations, map; 21 cm

Summary

"Blending autobiography and history with traditional knowledge and ways of life, Medicine Trail presents a collage of events in Gladys Tantaquidgeon's life. We see her childhood spent learning Mohegan ceremonies and healing methods at the hands of her tribal grandmothers, and her Ivy League education and career in the white-male-dominated field of anthropology. We also witness her travels to other Indian communities, acting as both an ambassador of her own tribe and an employee of the federal government's Bureau of Indian affairs. Finally we see Tantaquidgeon's return to her beloved Mohegan Hill, where she cofounded America's oldest Indian-run museum, carrying on her life's commitment to good medicine and the cultural continuance and renewal of all Indian nations." "Written in the Mohegan oral tradition, this book offers a unique insider's understanding of Mohegan and other Native American cultures while discussing the major policies and trends that have affected people throughout Indian Country in the twentieth century. A significant departure from traditional anthropological "as told to" American Indian autobiography, Medicine Trail represents a major contribution to anthropology, history, theology, women's studies, and Native American studies."--Jacket.

Subject

• Tantaquidgeon, Gladys
• Tantaquidgeon, Gladys
• Mohegan Indians > Biography
• Indian women shamans > Biography
• Mohegan Indians > Medicine
• Delaware Indians > Medicine
• Indians of North America
• Shamanism
• Women
• Indians, North American
• Medicine, Traditional
• Shamanism
• Women
• shamanism
• women (female humans)
• Indians of North America
• Delaware Indians > Medicine
• Indian women shamans
• Mohegan Indians
• Mohegan Indians > Medicine
• United States
• Canada

Genre/Form

• Biography
• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 177).

Contents

Preface: The Lasting of the Mohegans xi -- Part I Mohegan Hill Trail -- 2 Folks on the Hill 9 -- 3 Rock Woman 21 -- 4 Giants and Little People 31 -- 5 Nanu Magic 37 -- 6 Representing the Ancestors 43 -- 7 Pounding Yokeag 47 -- 8 Welcome to the Wigwam 53 -- Part II Eastern Trail -- 9 Anthropologist 63 -- 10 Educating Academia 69 -- 11 Missing Pieces 75 -- 12 For Moshup and Granny 83 -- 13 Tantaquidgeon Museum 89 -- 14 Qualifying Trials 95 -- Part III Western Trail -- 15 Among the Lakota Sioux 103 -- 16 Freeing Prisoners at Lakota 111 -- 17 Healing and Thanks 117 -- Part IV Trail Home to the Hill -- 18 Nanu Gladys 127 -- 19 Talking Artifacts 135 -- 20 Restoring the Mohegan Nation 143 -- Part V Trail to Medicine -- 21 A Day with Gladys at Ninety-eight 151 -- 22 Happy Hundredth Birthday 155 -- Epilogue: Gladys and Me 161.

ISBN

• 0816520682
• 9780816520688
• 0816520690
• 9780816520695

LCCN

00008195

OCLC

• ocm43397057
• 43397057
• SCSB-1145543

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library