Indian play : Indigenous identities at Bacone college / Lisa K. Neuman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neuman, Lisa Kay, 1968-

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Oklahoma--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Indian philosophy--Oklahoma.

Indian philosophy.

Indians of North America--Education (Higher)--Oklahoma.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Oklahoma--Ethnic identity.

Bacone College--History.

Bacone College.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"When Indian University--now Bacone College--opened its doors in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1880, it was a small Baptist institution designed to train young Native Americans to be teachers and Christian missionaries among their own people and to act as agents of cultural assimilation. From 1927 to 1957, however, Bacone College changed course and pursued a new strategy of emphasizing the Indian identities of its students and projecting often-romanticized images of Indianness to the non-Indian public in its fund-raising campaigns. Money was funneled back into the school as administrators hired Native American faculty who in turn created innovative curricular programs in music and the art that encouraged their students to explore and develop their Native identities. Through their frequent use of humor and inventive wordplay to reference Indianness--"Indian play"--students articulated the (often contradictory) implications of being educated Indians in mid-twentieth-century America. In this supportive and creative culture, Bacone became an "Indian school," rather than just another "school for Indians." In examining how and why this transformation occurred, Lisa K. Neuman situates the students' Indian play within larger theoretical frameworks of cultural creativity, ideologies of authenticity, and counterhegemonic practices that are central to the fields of Native American and indigenous studies today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Creating an Indian University

2. Images of Indianness

3. "The Dream of an Indian Princess"

4. Indian Education in a Changing America

5. Marketing Culture

6. Painting Culture

7. Being Indian at School

8. The Meanings of Indianness

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496209320

149620932X

9780803249455

0803249454

OCLC:

862746832