Dance Lodges Of The Omaha People

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803233752

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Dance Lodges of the Omaha People by Anonim Pdf

After the Omaha Nation was officially granted its reservation land in northeastern Nebraska in 1854, Omaha culture appeared to succumb to a Euro-American standard of living under the combined onslaught of federal Indian policies, governmental officials, and missionary zealots. At the same time, however, new circular wooden structures appeared on some Omaha homesteads. Blending into the architectural environment of the mainstream culture, these lodges provided the ritual space in which dances and ceremonies could be conducted at a time when such practices were coercively suppressed. ø Drawing on the oral histories of forty Omaha elders collected in 1992, Dance Lodges of the Omaha People provides insights into how these lodges shaped Omaha cultural identity and illustrates the adaptive abilities of the modern Omaha tribe. The lodges replaced the diminished pre-reservation tribal institutions as maintainers of tribal cohesion and unity and at the same time provided an arena for selective acculturation of outside ideas and behaviors. A new afterword by the author highlights advances in research on these unique structures since 1992 and speculates on the connection between these lodges and the spread of the Omaha Hethushka dance across the Great Plains.

Author : Mark Awakuni-Swetland
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781496233967

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The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way by Mark Awakuni-Swetland Pdf

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way provides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Vida Woodhull Stabler, Aubrey Streit Krug, Loren Frerichs, and Rory Larson have collaborated with elder speakers, including Alberta Grant Canby, Emmaline Walker Sanchez, Marcella Woodhull Cavou, and Donna Morris Parker, to write this book. The original and creative pedagogical method used in this textbook--teaching the Omaha language through Omaha culture--consists of a structured series of lesson plans. It is the result of a generous collaboration between the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Umóⁿhoⁿ Language and Culture Center at Umóⁿhoⁿ Nation Public School in Macy, Nebraska. The method draws on the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of Awakuni-Swetland to illustrate the Omaha values of balance and integration. The contents are shaped into two parts, each of which complements the other--just as the Earth and Sky do. This textbook features an introduction by Awakuni-Swetland on the history and phonology of the Omaha language; lessons from the Umóⁿhoⁿ Language and Culture Center at Macy, with a writing system quick sheet; situation quick sheets; lessons on games; lessons on spring, summer, fall, and winter; an Omaha language resource list; and a glossary in the standard Macy orthography of the Omaha language. The textbook also includes cultural lessons in the language by Awakuni-Swetland and lessons from the Omaha language class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way offers a linguistic foundation for tribal members, students, scholars, and laypersons, featuring Omaha community lessons, the standard Macy orthography, and UNL orthography all under one cover.

Author : Daniel S. Murphree
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313381270

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Native America [3 volumes] by Daniel S. Murphree Pdf

Employing innovative research and unique interpretations, these essays provide a fresh perspective on Native American history by focusing on how Indians lived and helped shape each of the United States. Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia comprises 50 chapters offering interpretations of Native American history through the lens of the states in which Indians lived or helped shape. This organizing structure and thematic focus allows readers access to information on specific Indians and the regions they lived in while also providing a collective overview of Native American relationships with the United States as a whole. These three volumes synthesize scholarship on the Native American past to provide both an academic and indigenous perspective on the subject, covering all states and the native peoples who lived in them or were instrumental to their development. Each state is featured in its own chapter, authored by a specialist on the region and its indigenous peoples. Each essay has these main sections: Chronology, Historical Overview, Notable Indians, Cultural Contributions, and Bibliography. The chapters are interspersed with photographs and illustrations that add visual clarity to the written content, put a human face on the individuals described, and depict the peoples and environment with which they interacted.

Author : Justin Gage
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806168364

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We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us by Justin Gage Pdf

In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another and from the white populations coursing through the plains. We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks of communication, threaded together by letter writing and off-reservation visiting. Faced with the consequences of U.S. colonialism—the constraints, population loss, and destitution—Native Americans, far from passively accepting their fate, mobilized to control their own sources of information, spread and reinforce ideas, and collectively discuss and mount resistance against onerous government policies. Justin Gage traces these efforts, drawing on extensive new evidence, including more than one hundred letters written by nineteenth-century Native Americans. His work shows how Lakotas, Cheyennes, Utes, Shoshones, Kiowas, and dozens of other western tribal nations shrewdly used the U.S. government’s repressive education system and mechanisms of American settler colonialism, notably the railroads and the Postal Service, to achieve their own ends. Thus Natives used literacy, a primary tool of assimilation for U.S. policymakers, to decolonize their lives much earlier than historians have noted. Whereas previous histories have assumed that the Ghost Dance itself was responsible for the creation of brand-new networks among western tribes, this book suggests that the intertribal networks formed in the 1870s and 1880s actually facilitated the rapid dissemination of the Ghost Dance in 1889 and 1890. Documenting the evolution and operation of intertribal networking, Gage demonstrates its effectiveness—and recognizes for the first time how, through Native activism, long-distance, intercultural communication persisted in the colonized American West.

Author : James A. Crutchfield,Candy Moutlon,Terry Del Bene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317454601

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The Settlement of America by James A. Crutchfield,Candy Moutlon,Terry Del Bene Pdf

First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only one week after the English landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607. Beginning on May 21, Captain John Smith, one of the colonization company’s leaders, and twenty-one companions made their way northwest up the James River for some 50 or 60 miles (80 or 96 km).

Author : Roger L. Welsch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803274259

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The Reluctant Pilgrim by Roger L. Welsch Pdf

Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, “like the sun and moon.” According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. “I make my request of the stones and they are my intercessors,” Brave Buffalo explained. Moments later, another friend appeared at Welsch’s door bearing yet another unusual gift: a perfectly round white stone found on top of a mesa in Colorado. So began Welsch’s lesson from stones, gifts that always presented themselves unexpectedly: during a walk, set aside in an antique store, and in the mail from complete strangers. The Reluctant Pilgrim shares a skeptic’s spiritual journey from his Lutheran upbringing to the Native sensibilities of his adoptive families in both the Omaha and Pawnee tribes. Beginning with those round stones, increasing encounters during his life prompted Welsch to confront a new way of learning and teaching as he was drawn inexorably into another world. Confronting mainstream contemporary culture’s tendency to dismiss the magical, mystical, and unexplained, Welsch shares his personal experiences and celebrates the fact that even in our scientific world, “Something Is Going On,” just beyond our ken.

Author : Paul Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317775966

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The Power of the Land by Paul Robertson Pdf

Power of the Land is the first in-depth look at the past 120 years of struggle over the Oglala Lakota land base on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Author : Roger L. Welsch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803244924

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Embracing Fry Bread by Roger L. Welsch Pdf

When he was out playing Indian, enacting Hollywood-inspired scenarios, it never occurred to the child Roger Welsch that the little girl sitting next to him in school was Indian. A lifetime of learning later, Welsch’s enthusiasm is undimmed, if somewhat more enlightened. In Embracing Fry Bread Welsch tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Native American culture, which, beginning in earnest with the study of linguistic practices of the Omaha tribe during a college anthropology course, resulted in his becoming an adopted member and kin of both the Omaha and the Pawnee tribes. With requisite humility and a healthy dose of humor, Welsch describes his long pilgrimage through Native life, from lessons in the vagaries of “Indian time” and the difficulties of reservation life, to the joy of being allowed to participate in special ceremonies and developing a deep and lasting love of fry bread. Navigating another culture is a complicated task, and Welsch shares his mistakes and successes with engaging candor. Through his serendipitous wanderings, he finds that the more he learns about Native culture the more he learns about himself—and about a way of life whose allure offers true insight into indigenous America.

Author : Patrice Hollrah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135938925

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The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell by Patrice Hollrah Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Martha McCollough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135946562

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Three Nations, One Place by Martha McCollough Pdf

An intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions and patterns of settlement, production and social reproduction. Challenging historical views that structure a dichotomy of the colonizers and the colonized, this study examines global, regional and local populations as it details the points of interface between Euro-American markets, Native American commodities and indigenous social groups in this early colonial period.

Author : Aaron Deter-Wolf,Carol Diaz-Granados
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292749122

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Drawing with Great Needles by Aaron Deter-Wolf,Carol Diaz-Granados Pdf

For thousands of years, Native Americans used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos. This book offers an examination into the antiquity, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.--Publisher description.

Author : Center for Great Plains Studies,Stephen J. Lavin,Fred M. Shelley,J. Clark Archer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803215368

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Atlas of the Great Plains by Center for Great Plains Studies,Stephen J. Lavin,Fred M. Shelley,J. Clark Archer Pdf

Explores the history of the Great Plains through more than three hundred full-color maps and extensive explanatory text.

Author : Kurt E. Kinbacher
Publisher : Plains Histories
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213040749

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Urban Villages and Local Identities by Kurt E. Kinbacher Pdf

Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups--Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese--that settled in enclaves in Lincoln, Nebraska, beginning in 1876, 1941, and 1975, respectively. These urban villages served as safe havens that protected new arrivals from a mainstream that often eschewed unfamiliar cultural practices. Lincoln's large Volga German population was last fully discussed in 1918; Omahas are rarely studied as urban people although sixy-five percent of their population lives in cities; and the growing body of work on Vietnamese tends to be conducted by social scientists rather than historians, few of whom contrast Southeast Asian experiences with those of earlier waves of immigration. As a comparative study, Urban Villages and Local Identities is inspired, in part, by Reinventing Free Labor, by Gunther Peck. By focusing on the experiences of three populations over the course of 130 years, Urban Villages connects two distinct eras of international border crossing and broadens the field of immigration to include Native Americans. Ultimately, the work yields insights into the complexity, flexibility, and durability of cultural identities among ethnic groups and the urban mainstream in one capital city.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Great Plains
ISBN : MINN:31951P01129287X

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Great Plains Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021116202

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Choice by Anonim Pdf