Reading the wampum : essays on Hodinöhsö:ni' visual code and epistemological recovery / Penelope Myrtle Kelsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelsey, Penelope Myrtle.

Series:

Iroquois and their neighbors.

The Iroquois and their neighbors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Visual communication--New York (State).

Visual communication.

Wampum belts--New York (State).

Wampum belts.

Iroquois philosophy.

Iroquois Indians--Social life and customs.

Iroquois Indians.

Iroquois Indians--Intellectual life.

Iroquois art.

Indians in motion pictures.

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future generations. In Reading the Wampum, Kelsey provides the first academic consideration of the ways in which these sacred belts are reinterpreted into current Haudenosaunee tradition. While Kelsey explores the aesthetic appeal of the belts, she also provides insightful analysis of how readings of wampum belts can change our understanding of specific treaty rights and land exchanges. Kelsey shows how contemporary Iroquois intellectuals and artists adapt and reconsider these traditional belts in new and innovative ways. Reading the Wampum conveys the vitality and continuance of wampum traditions in Iroquois art, literature, and community, suggesting that wampum narratives pervade and reappear in new guises with each new generation.

Contents:

Preface: Hodinöhsö:ni' visual code and intellectual transmission

Note on language and orthography

Two row wampum in James Thomas Stevens's A bridge dead in the water and Tokinish

The covenant chain in Eric Gansworth's fiction, poetry, memoir, and paintings : the Canandaigua treaty belt as critical indigenous economic critique

Tribal feminist recuperation of the Jegöhsase:' in Shelley Niro's Kissed by lightning : a rematriating reading of the women's nomination belt

Kahnawake's reclamation of adoption practices in Tracey Deer's documentary and fiction films : reading the adoption belt in a post-Indian Act era

Conclusion: Wampum and the future of Hodinöhsö:ni' narrative epistemology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815652991

0815652992

OCLC:

897552137