The Native South
The Native South

Author: Tim Alan Garrison

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781496204127

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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation In Chehalis Stories Jolynn Amrine Goertz and the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in Western Washington have assembled a collaborative volume of traditional stories collected by the anthropologist Franz Boas from tribal knowledge keepers in the early twentieth century. Both Boas and Amrine Goertz worked with past and present elders, including Robert Choke, Marion Davis, Peter Heck, Blanche Pete Dawson, and Jonas Secena, in collecting and contextualizing traditional knowledge of the Chehalis people. The elders shared stories with Boas at a critical juncture in Chehalis history, when assimilation efforts during the 1920s affected almost every aspect of Chehalis life. These are stories of transformation, going away, and coming back. The interwoven adventures of tricksters and transformers in Coast Salish narratives recall the time when people and animals lived together in the Chehalis River Valley. Catastrophic floods, stolen children, and heroic rescues poignantly evoke the resiliency of the people who have carried these stories for generations. Working with contemporary Chehalis people, Amrine Goertz has extensively reviewed the work of anthropologists in western Washington. This important collection examines the methodologies, shortcomings, and limitations of anthropologists' relationship with Chehalis people and presents complementary approaches to field work and its contextualization.

Native Southerners
Native Southerners

Author: Gregory D. Smithers

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2019-03-28

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0806164042

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Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithers brings this world to life in Native Southerners, a sweeping narrative of American Indian history in the Southeast from the time before European colonialism to the Trail of Tears and beyond. In the Native South, as in much of North America, storytelling is key to an understanding of origins and tradition—and the stories of the indigenous people of the Southeast are central to Native Southerners. Spanning territory reaching from modern-day Louisiana and Arkansas to the Atlantic coast, and from present-day Tennessee and Kentucky through Florida, this book gives voice to the lived history of such well-known polities as the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Chickasaws, and Choctaws, as well as smaller Native communities like the Nottoway, Occaneechi, Haliwa-Saponi, Catawba, Biloxi-Chitimacha, Natchez, Caddo, and many others. From the oral and cultural traditions of these Native peoples, as well as the written archives of European colonists and their Native counterparts, Smithers constructs a vibrant history of the societies, cultures, and peoples that made and remade the Native South in the centuries before the American Civil War. What emerges is a complex picture of how Native Southerners understood themselves and their world—a portrayal linking community and politics, warfare and kinship, migration, adaptation, and ecological stewardship—and how this worldview shaped and was shaped by their experience both before and after the arrival of Europeans. As nuanced in detail as it is sweeping in scope, the narrative Smithers constructs is a testament to the storytelling and the living history that have informed the identities of Native Southerners to our day.

Native South American Discourse
Native South American Discourse

Author: Joel Sherzer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-10-06

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 3110858126

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Introduction / Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban -- Semiotic functions of macro-parallelism in the Shokleng origin myth / Greg Urban -- Oratory is spoken, myth is told, and song is sung, but they are all music to my ears / Anthony Seeger -- Three modes of Shavante vocal expressions : wailing, collective singing, and political oratory / Laura Graham -- Quoted dialogues in Kalapalo narrative discourse / Ellen Basso -- Report of a Kuna curing specialist : the poetics and rhetoric of an oral performance / Joel Sherzer -- Styles of Toba discourse / Harriet Klein -- Topic continutity and OVS order.

Gardening with Native Plants of the South
Gardening with Native Plants of the South

Author: Sally Wasowski

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1493038818

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In today’s South, where fine gardening is a tradition, many homeowners and professional gardeners are discovering a vast “new” palette of plant materials—native plants. They are realizing that these native wildflowers, trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, and grasses are far better suited, and therefore easier to grow and maintain, than most of the imported plants that populate traditional landscapes. In this book, the authors offer an exciting vision of the many possibilities and advantages of “going native.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 gorgeous color photographs, this book is both an introduction to more than 200 of the most familiar and easiest-to-find native plants of the South and a basic primer on how to use them effectively.

The Indian in American Southern Literature
The Indian in American Southern Literature

Author: Melanie Benson Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-16

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1108853285

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Indians are everywhere and nowhere in the US South. Cloaked by a rhetoric of disappearance after Indian Removal, actual southeastern tribal groups are largely invisible but immortalized in regional mythologies, genealogical lore, romanticized stereotypes, and unpronounceable place names. These imaginary 'Indians' compose an ideological fiction inextricable from that of the South itself. Often framed as hindrances to the Cotton Kingdom, Indians were in fact active participants in the plantation economy and chattel slavery before and after Removal. Dialectical tropes of Indigeneity linger in the white southern imagination in order to both conceal and expose the tangle of land, labor, and race as formative, disruptive categories of being and meaning. This book is not, finally, about the recovery of the region's lost Indians, but a reckoning with their inaccessible traces, ambivalent functions, and the shattering implications of their repressed significance for modern southern identity.

As Long as the Waters Flow
As Long as the Waters Flow

Author: Frye Gaillard

Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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"As Long as the Waters Flow" takes an honest look at the problems facing the Southern and Eastern tribes and celebrates the people who continue to maintain their Native identity despite the pressures of the dominant culture"--Book jacket.

Being, Feeling, and Seeing Red in the Native South
Being, Feeling, and Seeing Red in the Native South

Author: Gina Marie Caison

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781267775580

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This dissertation examines issues of indigenous identity, history, and land claim within the literature of the southeastern United States. I explore how Native American literatures construct narratives of and about southern history, as well as how non-Native authors from the South integrate indigenous history into narratives of southern exceptionalism. I pay particular attention to trans-historical reception as a way to analyze how the South has or has not remembered the Native ground on which it stands. I argue for a reperiodization of the region that allows us to see the continual redeployment of received "truths" of Native history and the power structures that these truths enforce. I argue that the historical oppression of Native American people in the region, as well as the later memories of their land claims, is constitutive for narratives through which the white South positions itself vis-à-vis other imagined regions. The first section of this dissertation analyzes performative history in the region's popular outdoor dramas, demonstrating how the use of the archive in performance can answer official or received structures of fact when engaging a regional audience. The second section examines the Native South as imagined and articulated within antebellum regional newspapers and by authors such as Elias Boudinot and William Gilmore Simms. The third section considers postbellum southern writers such as Mark Twain, Forrest Carter, and Charles Frazier, who redeploy indigenous history to imagine a southern pathos of defeat.

Indigenous Histories of the American South During the Long Nineteenth Century
Indigenous Histories of the American South During the Long Nineteenth Century

Author: Gregory D. Smithers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138567603

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This book reveals the strength of Indigenous people in the American South in re-emerging from the Revolutionary War to survive the removal era of the early nineteenth century, reasserting their connection to the South during the latter half of the century. It was originally published as a special issue of American Nineteenth Century History.

Who Belongs?
Who Belongs?

Author: Mikaëla M. Adams

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0190619465

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Who Belongs? tells the story of how in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, despite economic hardships and assimilationist pressures, six southern tribes insisted on their political identity as citizens of tribal nations and constructed tribally-specific citizenship criteria to establish legal identity that went beyond the dominant society's racial definitions of "Indian."