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Indian work : language and livelihood in Native American history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Usner, Daniel H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Economic conditions.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Employment.
- Indians of North America--Public opinion.
- White people--Relations with Indians.
- White people.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- United States--Social policy.
- United States--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language
- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America
- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez
- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy
- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana
- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-187) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674054745
- 0674054741
- OCLC:
- 648759725
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