Reflections on American Indian history : honoring the past, building a future / edited by Albert L. Hurtado ; introduction by Wilma Mankiller.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hurtado, Albert L., 1946-

Conference Name:

Wilma Mankiller Symposium on American History (2005 : University of Oklahoma)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--History.

Indians of North America.

History.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

Ethnic relations.

United States--History.

Physical Description:

xix, 149 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]

Summary:

As American Indian communities face the new century, they look to the future armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them together thus far. Now five premier scholars in American Indian history, along with a tribal leader who has placed an indelible mark on the history of her people, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems facing Indians today.

Contents:

Introduction / Wilma Mankiller

My grandfather's axe : living with a Native American past / Colin G. Calloway

Moving with the seasons, not fixed in stone : the evolution of Native American identity / R. David Edmunds

Three stories of war : history and memory in an American Indian community / Laurence M. Hauptman

"Our future is burning bright" : American Indian histories as continuing stories / Peter Iverson

Wilma's jingle dress : Ojibwe women and healing in the early twentieth century / Brenda J. Child.

Notes:

"Originated from the Wilma Mankiller Symposium on American History, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma ... held at the University Memorial Union on April 12 and 13, 2005"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806138961

0806138963

OCLC:

145431713