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Being Cowlitz : how one tribe renewed and sustained its identity / Christine Joy Dupres ; typeface designed by Carol Twombly ; design by Dustin Kilgore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dupres, Christine Joy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cowlitz Indians--History.
- Cowlitz Indians.
- Cowlitz Indians--Ethnic identity.
- Cowlitz Indians--Social life and customs.
- Cowlitz Indians--Folklore.
- Cowlitz Indian Tribe, Washington--History.
- Cowlitz Indian Tribe, Washington.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, Washington ; London, England : University of Washington Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Without a recognized reservation or homeland, what keeps an Indian tribe together? How can members of the tribe understand their heritage and pass it on to younger generations? For Christine Dupres, a member of the Cowlitz tribe of southwestern Washington State, these questions were personal as well as academic. In Being Cowlitz: How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity, what began as the author’s search for her own history opened a window into the practices and narratives that sustained her tribe’s identity even as its people were scattered over several states. Dupres argues that the best way to understand a tribe is through its stories. From myths and spiritual traditions defining the people’s relationship to the land to the more recent history of cultural survival and engagement with the U.S. government, Dupres shows how stories are central to the ongoing process of forming a Cowlitz identity. Through interviews and profiles of political leaders, Dupres reveals the narrative and rhetorical strategies that protect and preserve the memory and culture of the tribe. In the process, she creates a blueprint for cultural preservation that current and future Cowlitz tribal leaders--as well as other indigenous activists--can use to keep tribal memories alive.
- Contents:
- Cowlitz history
- Historical discourse and the use of landscape : genres of attachment
- The importance of leaders and legends
- The importance of personal history narrative
- The importance of personal history narrative in shaping oral history and myth.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295805399
- 0295805390
- OCLC:
- 897814595
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