Beyond two worlds : critical conversations on language and power in native North America / edited by James Joseph Buss and C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buss, James Joseph, editor.

Genetin-Pilawa, C. Joseph, editor.

Series:

SUNY series, Tribal Worlds : Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Ethinic identity.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beyond Two Worlds brings together scholars of Native history and Native American studies to offer fresh insights into the methodological and conceptual significance of the "two-worlds framework." They address the following questions: Where did the two-worlds framework originate? How has it changed over time? How does it continue to operate in today's world? Most people recognize the language of binaries birthed by the two-worlds trope—savage and civilized, East and West, primitive and modern. For more than four centuries, this lexicon has served as a grammar for settler colonialism. While many scholars have chastised this type of terminology in recent years, the power behind these words persists. With imagination and a critical evaluation of how language, politics, economics, and culture all influence the expectations that we place on one another, the contributors to this volume rethink the two-worlds trope, adding considerably to our understanding of the past and present.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The World Is Not Enough""; ""Wabansi Lakeside Chicago-Beyond Swag""; ""Notes""; ""I: Historical Antecedents""; ""1. To Live and Die with Them: Wendat Reactions to Worldly Rhetoric in the Land of the Dead""; ""Wendat Perceptions of the Afterlife""; ""New ideas: Missionaries in Wendake""; ""Wendat Resistance""; ""The Sky-dwellers""; ""Comparable Circumstances""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""

""2. Willingly Complied and Removed to the Fort: The Secret History of Competing Anglo-Visions of Virginia's Southwest""""Early Official Attempts at Conversion via Tributary Trade Relationships""; ""William and Mary College""; ""Fort Christanna and the Virginia Indian Company""; ""The Virginia Indian Company and Its Detractors""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""3. The Development of Two Worlds: British and Cherokee Spatial Understandings in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast""; ""Notes""; ""Interlude: Diagramming Worlds""; ""Notes""; ""II: The Real and the Imagined""

""4. Imagined Worlds and Archival Realities: The Patchwork World of Early Nineteenth-Century Indiana""""Imagining Two Worlds""; ""Nathaniel West's Tangled World in Indiana""; ""A Patchwork World in a Market Economy""; ""The Historian's Tangled World in the Archives""; ""Notes""; ""5. The Indians Capital City: Diplomatic Visits, Place, and Two-Worlds Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Washington, DC""; ""Notes""; ""6. Under One Big Tent: Race, Resistance, and Community Building in Two Nineteenth-Century Circus Towns""; ""Miami County, Indiana, and the Wallace Circus Quarters""

""Columbus, Ohio, and the Sellsville Quarters""""Challenges for Performers in the Circus Industry""; ""Native Americans and African Americans Utilized Circus Opportunities in Their Neighborhoods and Abroad""; ""Manipulating the Spotlight""; ""Conclusion: Performers and Entertainers Push Racial Lines Beyond Two Worlds""; ""Notes""; ""Interlude: Of Two Worlds and Intimate Domains""; ""Notes""; ""III: Consequences and Implications""; ""7. nahi meehtohseeniwinki: iilinweeyankwi neehi iši meehtohseeniwiyankwi aatotamankwi: To Live Well: Our Language and Our Lives""

""A Story of Evolving Peoplehood: Disruption, Change, and Community Health""""Lighting the Fuse Myaamia Youth Education Programs""; ""Aapooši Aahkwaapawaayankwi Once Again We Are Dreaming""; ""Notes""; ""8. Moving in Multiple Worlds: Native Indian Service Employees""; ""Federal Hiring Policies""; ""Notes""; ""Interlude: Working and Between-ness""; ""Notes""; ""IV: Beyond Two Worlds""; ""9. born in the opposition: D'Arcy McNickle, Ethnobiographically""; ""D'Arcy Understood""; ""D'Arcy Understood""; ""I Felt a Terrific Sense of Emotion (13 September 1933)""

""He is Effecting the Revolution" (25 May 1933)""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438453439

1438453434

OCLC:

890324384