Nebraska Native Americans

Author : Carole Marsh,Gallopade International
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0635022982

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Nebraska Indians (Paperback) by Carole Marsh,Gallopade International Pdf

One of the most popular misconceptions about American Indians is that they are all the same-one homogenous group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and share the same customs and history. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book gives kids an A-Z look at the Native Americans that shaped their state's history. From tribe to tribe, there are large differences in clothing, housing, life-styles, and cultural practices. Help kids explore Native American history by starting with the Native Americans that might have been in their very own backyard! Some of the activities include crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, and decipher the code.

Author : Liza Black
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496232649

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Picturing Indians by Liza Black Pdf

Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post–World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of “Indianness.”

Author : Donald Ricky
Publisher : Somerset Publishers, Inc.
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780403099290

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Indians of Nebraska by Donald Ricky Pdf

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications. Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of the region to fully understand the history and culture of the native peoples that occupied Nebraska and the surrounding areas. The first section is contains an overview of early history of the state and region. The second section contains an A to Z dictionary of tribal articles and biographies of noteworthy Native Americans that have contributed to the history of Nebraska.

Author : Elizabeth S. Grobsmith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803221371

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Indians in Prison by Elizabeth S. Grobsmith Pdf

Penologists, social services administra-tors, and students of criminal justice as well as of Indian studies will welcome this groundbreaking study, the product of close observation of and direct involvement on behalf of Indians in the Nebraska state penal system. Opening with a group profile, it discusses in detail the special concerns of that population: cultural and spiritual activities (Indians incarcerated in Nebraska were among the first to seek court permission to practice their religion behind bars), the seriously underestimated rates of alcoholism and drug addiction and the need for culturally appropriate treatment, and high rates of recidivism and their effect on parole. The final chapters present comparative data on Indians incarcerated in other states and offer recommendations for dealing with recurrent problems. Indians in Prison is particularly timely for its focus on how the social environments of Indian youth contribute to their delinquency and substance abuse and how Indians in prison perceive rehabilitation strategies, parole, and the law.ø

Author : Joshua David Bellin,Laura L. Mielke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803239890

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Native Acts by Joshua David Bellin,Laura L. Mielke Pdf

Long before the Boston Tea Party, where colonists staged a revolutionary act by masquerading as Indians, people looked to Native Americans for the symbols, imagery, and acts that showed what it meant to be “American.” And for just as long, observers have largely overlooked the role that Native peoples themselves played in creating and enacting the Indian performances appropriated by European Americans. It is precisely this neglected notion of Native Americans “playing Indian” that Native Acts explores. These essays—by historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and folklorists—provide the first broadly based chronicle of the performance of “Indianness” by Natives in North America from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. The authors’ careful and imaginative analysis of historical documents and performative traditions reveals an intricate history of intercultural exchange. In sum, Native Acts challenges any simple understanding of cultural “authenticity” even as it celebrates the dynamic role of performance in the American Indian pursuit of self-determination. In this collection, Indian peoples emerge as active, vocal, embodied participants in cultural encounters whose performance powerfully shaped the course of early American history.

Author : Carole Marsh,Lynette Rowe,Victoria DeJoy
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0635022990

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Nebraska Native Americans! by Carole Marsh,Lynette Rowe,Victoria DeJoy Pdf

One of the most popular misconceptions about American Indians is that they are all the same-one homogenous group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and share the same customs and history. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book gives kids an A-Z look at the Native Americans that shaped their state's history. From tribe to tribe, there are large differences in clothing, housing, life-styles, and cultural practices. Help kids explore Native American history by starting with the Native Americans that might have been in their very own backyard! Some of the activities include crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, and decipher the code.

Author : Gretchen M. Bataille
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080320003X

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Native American Representations by Gretchen M. Bataille Pdf

Profiles the teacher who died with the NASA crew when the Challenger exploded in 1986, and describes the various ways her enthusiasm for learning and exploration, determination to teach children, and love of life continues all over the world.

Author : Clara Sue Kidwell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803278292

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Native American Studies by Clara Sue Kidwell Pdf

Native American Studies covers key issues such as the intimate relationship of culture to land; the nature of cultural exchange and conflict in the period after European contact; the unique relationship of Native communities with the United States government; the significance of language; the vitality of contemporary cultures; and the variety of Native artistic styles, from literature and poetry to painting and sculpture to performance arts.

Author : Roberta Ulrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803233645

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American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006 by Roberta Ulrich Pdf

When the U.S. government ended its relationship with dozens of Native American tribes and bands between 1953 and 1966, it was engaging in a massive social experiment. Congress enacted the program, known as termination, in the name of ?freeing? the Indians from government restrictions and improving their quality of life. However, removing the federal status of more than nine dozen tribes across the country plunged many of their nearly 13,000 members into deeper levels of poverty and eroded the tribal people?s sense of Native identity. Beginning in 1973 and extending over a twenty-year period, the terminated tribes, one by one, persuaded Congress to restore their ties to the federal government. Nonetheless, so much damage had been done that even today the restored tribes struggle to overcome the problems created by those terminations a half century ago. ø Roberta Ulrich provides a concise overview of all the terminations and restorations of Native American tribes from 1953 to 2006 and explores the enduring policy implications for Native peoples. This is the first book to consider all the terminations and restorations in the twentieth century as part of continuing policy while detailing some of the individual tribal differences. Drawing from Congressional records, interviews with tribal members, and other primary sources, Ulrich delves into the causes and effects of termination and restoration from both sides.

Author : Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : By-laws
ISBN : UIUC:30112037662076

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Constitution and Bylaws of the Ponca Tribe of Native Americans of Nebraska by Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Pdf

Author : Katherine Ellinghaus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496230379

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Blood Will Tell by Katherine Ellinghaus Pdf

A study of the role blood quantum played in the assimilation period between 1887 and 1934 in the United States.

Author : Rosalyn R. LaPier,David R. M. Beck
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803248397

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City Indian by Rosalyn R. LaPier,David R. M. Beck Pdf

In City Indian, Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indian men and women who migrated to Chicago from across America. From the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair, American Indians in Chicago voiced their opinions about political, social, educational, and racial issues. City Indian focuses on the privileged members of the American Indian community in Chicago who were doctors, nurses, business owners, teachers, and entertainers. During the Progressive Era, more than at any other time in the city’s history, they could be found in the company of politicians and society leaders, at Chicago’s major cultural venues and events, and in the press, speaking out. When Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson declared that Chicago public schools teach “America First,” American Indian leaders publicly challenged him to include the true story of “First Americans.” As they struggled to reshape nostalgic perceptions of American Indians, these men and women developed new associations and organizations to help each other and to ultimately create a new place to call home in a modern American city.

Author : Robert J. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313071843

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Native America, Discovered and Conquered by Robert J. Miller Pdf

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the discoverers of the Indians and their lands, the United States or the European countries? We know the answer, of course, but in this book, Miller explains for the first time exactly how the United States achieved victory, not only on the ground, but also in the developing legal thought of the day. The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage—a land route across the continent—in order to establish an American fur trade with China. In addition, the Corps of Northwestern Discovery, as the expedition was called, cataloged new plant and animal life, and performed detailed ethnographic research on the Indians they encountered. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.

Author : Michelle H. Raheja
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803268272

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Reservation Reelism by Michelle H. Raheja Pdf

In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native audiences. These films have been highly influential in shaping perceptions of Indigenous peoples as, for example, a dying race or as inherently unable or unwilling to adapt to change. However, films with Indigenous plots and subplots also signify at least some degree of Native presence in a culture that largely defines Native peoples as absent or separate. Native actors, directors, and spectators have had a part in creating these cinematic representations and have thus complicated the dominant, and usually negative, messages about Native peoples that films portray. In Reservation Reelism Raheja examines the history of these Native actors, directors, and spectators, reveals their contributions, and attempts to create positive representations in film that reflect the complex and vibrant experiences of Native peoples and communities.

Author : Joy Porter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803237971

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Native American Freemasonry by Joy Porter Pdf

Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era—a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how Masonry met specific social and personal needs of Native Americans, a theme developed across three periods: the revolutionary era, the last third of the nineteenth century, and the years following the First World War. Joy Porter positions Freemasonry within its historical context, examining its social and political impact as a transatlantic phenomenon at the heart of the colonizing process. She then explores its meaning for many key Native leaders, for ethnic groups that sought to make connections through it, and for the bulk of its American membership—the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle class. Through research gleaned from archives in New York, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, California, and London, Porter shows how Freemasonry’s performance of ritual provided an accessible point of entry to Native Americans and how over time, Freemasonry became a significant avenue for the exchange and co-creation of cultural forms by Indians and non-Indians.