Real Native Genius

Author : Angela Pulley Hudson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469624440

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Real Native Genius by Angela Pulley Hudson Pdf

In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon woman from New York, who likewise claimed to be an Indian and used the name "Laah Ceil." Together, they embarked on an astounding, sometimes scandalous journey across the United States and Canada, performing as American Indians for sectarian worshippers, theater audiences, and patent medicine seekers. Along the way, they used widespread notions of "Indianness" to disguise their backgrounds, justify their marriage, and make a living. In doing so, they reflected and shaped popular ideas about what it meant to be an American Indian in the mid-nineteenth century. Weaving together histories of slavery, Mormonism, popular culture, and American medicine, Angela Pulley Hudson offers a fascinating tale of ingenuity, imposture, and identity. While illuminating the complex relationship between race, religion, and gender in nineteenth-century North America, Hudson reveals how the idea of the "Indian" influenced many of the era's social movements. Through the remarkable lives of Tubbee and Ceil, Hudson uncovers both the complex and fluid nature of antebellum identities and the place of "Indianness" at the very heart of American culture.

Author : Quincy D. Newell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199338689

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Your Sister in the Gospel by Quincy D. Newell Pdf

"Dear Brother," Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, "I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and also finish the work I have begun for my dead.... Your sister in the Gospel, Jane E. James." A faithful Latter-day Saint since her conversion sixty years earlier, James had made this request several times before, to no avail, and this time she would be just as unsuccessful, even though most Latter-day Saints were allowed to participate in the endowment ritual in the temple as a matter of course. James, unlike most Mormons, was black. For that reason, she was barred from performing the temple rituals that Latter-day Saints believe are necessary to reach the highest degrees of glory after death. A free black woman from Connecticut, James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision. After her conversion, she traveled with her family and other converts from the region to Nauvoo, Illinois, where the LDS church was then based. There, she took a job as a servant in the home of Joseph Smith, the founder and first prophet of the LDS church. When Smith was killed in 1844, Jane found employment as a servant in Brigham Young's home. These positions placed Jane in proximity to Mormonism's most powerful figures, but did not protect her from the church's racially discriminatory policies. Nevertheless, she remained a faithful member until her death in 1908. Your Sister in the Gospel is the first scholarly biography of Jane Manning James or, for that matter, any black Mormon. Quincy D. Newell chronicles the life of this remarkable yet largely unknown figure and reveals why James's story changes our understanding of American history.

Author : Shane Lief,John McCusker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496825919

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Jockomo by Shane Lief,John McCusker Pdf

Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians celebrates the transcendent experience of Mardi Gras, encompassing both ancient and current traditions of New Orleans. The Mardi Gras Indians are a renowned and beloved fixture of New Orleans public culture. Yet very little is known about the indigenous roots of their cultural practices. For the first time, this book explores the Native American ceremonial traditions that influenced the development of the Mardi Gras Indian cultural system. Jockomo reveals the complex story of exchanges that have taken place over the past three centuries, generating new ways of singing and speaking, with many languages mixing as people’s lives overlapped. Contemporary photographs by John McCusker and archival images combine to offer a complementary narrative to the text. From the depictions of eighteenth-century Native American musical processions to the first known photo of Mardi Gras Indians, Jockomo is a visual feast, displaying the evolution of cultural traditions throughout the history of New Orleans. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Mardi Gras Indians had become a recognized local tradition. Over the course of the next one hundred years, their unique practices would move from the periphery to the very center of public consciousness as a quintessentially New Orleanian form of music and performance, even while retaining some of the most ancient features of Native American culture and language. Jockomo offers a new way of seeing and hearing the blended legacies of New Orleans.

Author : Lisa Z. Fain,Lois J. Zachary
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523085910

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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring by Lisa Z. Fain,Lois J. Zachary Pdf

This first comprehensive guide to helping mentors and mentees bridge gaps between and among cultures—a growing issue in today's diverse workplace—is coauthored by the founder and CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence. As the workplace has become more diverse, mentoring has become more challenging. Mentors and mentees may come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other's cultures and outlooks. But mentoring remains the most powerful tool for creating meaningful relationships, furthering professional development, and increasing engagement and retention. Younger workers and emerging leaders in particular are demanding it. Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zachary offer a timely, evidence-based, practical guide for helping mentors develop the level of cultural competency needed to bridge differences. Firmly rooted in Zachary's well-known four-part mentoring model, the book uses three fictional scenarios featuring three pairs of diverse mentors and mentees to illustrate how key concepts can play out in real life. It offers an array of accessible tools and strategies designed to help you increase your self-awareness and prepare you to embrace and leverage differences in your mentoring relationships. But beyond tips and techniques, Fain and Zachary emphasize that authenticity is the key—the ultimate purpose of this book is to help the mentor and mentee make a genuine connection and learn from each other. That's when the magic really happens.

Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806164052

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Native Southerners by Gregory D. Smithers Pdf

Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithers brings this world to life in Native Southerners, a sweeping narrative of American Indian history in the Southeast from the time before European colonialism to the Trail of Tears and beyond. In the Native South, as in much of North America, storytelling is key to an understanding of origins and tradition—and the stories of the indigenous people of the Southeast are central to Native Southerners. Spanning territory reaching from modern-day Louisiana and Arkansas to the Atlantic coast, and from present-day Tennessee and Kentucky through Florida, this book gives voice to the lived history of such well-known polities as the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Chickasaws, and Choctaws, as well as smaller Native communities like the Nottoway, Occaneechi, Haliwa-Saponi, Catawba, Biloxi-Chitimacha, Natchez, Caddo, and many others. From the oral and cultural traditions of these Native peoples, as well as the written archives of European colonists and their Native counterparts, Smithers constructs a vibrant history of the societies, cultures, and peoples that made and remade the Native South in the centuries before the American Civil War. What emerges is a complex picture of how Native Southerners understood themselves and their world—a portrayal linking community and politics, warfare and kinship, migration, adaptation, and ecological stewardship—and how this worldview shaped and was shaped by their experience both before and after the arrival of Europeans. As nuanced in detail as it is sweeping in scope, the narrative Smithers constructs is a testament to the storytelling and the living history that have informed the identities of Native Southerners to our day.

Author : John Smith (of Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600017387

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Our Scottish clery: 52 sketches, including clergymen of all denominations by John Smith (of Glasgow.) Pdf

Author : John Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Clergy
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50206140

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Our Scottish Clergy by John Smith Pdf

Author : John SMITH (LL.D., of Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019207482

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Second series by John SMITH (LL.D., of Glasgow.) Pdf

Author : William Moister
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385381780

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Missionary Anecdotes. Sketches, Facts, and Incidents Relating to the State of the Heathen and the Effects of the Gospel in Various Parts of the World by William Moister Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : William Moister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Missionaries
ISBN : BL:A0026402690

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Missionary anecdotes by William Moister Pdf

Author : Newell G. Bringhurst
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Saints, Slaves, and Blacks by Newell G. Bringhurst Pdf

Originally published shortly after the LDS Church lifted its priesthood and temple restriction on black Latter-day Saints, Newell G. Bringhurst’s landmark work remains ever-relevant as both the first comprehensive study on race within the Mormon religion and the basis by which contemporary discussions on race and Mormonism have since been framed. Approaching the topic from a social history perspective, with a keen understanding of antebellum and post-bellum religious shifts, Saints, Slaves, and Blacks examines both early Mormonism in the context of early American attitudes towards slavery and race, and the inherited racial traditions it maintained for over a century. While Mormons may have drawn from a distinct theology to support and defend racial views, their attitudes towards blacks were deeply-embedded in the national contestation over slavery and anticipation of the last days. This second edition of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks offers an updated edit, as well as an additional foreword and postscripts by Edward J. Blum, W. Paul Reeve, and Darron T. Smith. Bringhurst further adds a new preface and appendix detailing his experience publishing Saints, Slaves, and Blacks at a time when many Mormons felt the rescinded ban was best left ignored, and reflecting on the wealth of research done on this topic since its publication.

Author : Timothy Flint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Mississippi River Valley
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019243849

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The Western Monthly Review by Timothy Flint Pdf

Author : Erika Owen
Publisher : Tiller Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982147082

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Lawbreaking Ladies by Erika Owen Pdf

Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers, madams, and outlaws in this illustrated book of lawbreaking and legendary women throughout the ages. Many of us are familiar with the popular slogan “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” But that adage is taken to the next level in this book, which looks at women from the past who weren’t afraid to break the law or challenge gender norms. From pirates to madams, gamblers to bootleggers, and serial killers to outlaws, women throughout the ages haven’t always decided to be sugar, spice, and everything nice. In Lawbreaking Ladies, author Erika Owen tells the stories of 50 remarkable women whose rebellious and often criminal acts ought to solidify their place in history, including: - The swashbuckling pirate Ching Shih - “Queen of the Bootleggers” Gloria de Casares - The Prohibition-era gangster Stephanie Saint-Clair - And a band of prisoners who came to be known as the Goree Girls The perfect gift for true crime fans and lovers of little-known women’s history, Lawbreaking Ladies serves as an engaging and informative guide to gals who were daring, defiant, and sometimes downright dangerous.

Author : Nathaniel Parker Willis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435030457519

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The American Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Parker Willis Pdf

Author : Raoul Granqvist
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083863639X

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Imitation as Resistance by Raoul Granqvist Pdf

Imitation as Resistance also offers American perspectives on the individual reputations of a number of British writers and their specific works, often down to the particular lines in plays and poems. The reader whose interest is limited, for example, to the singular reputation of a Dickens novel or a Byron poem may find the book functional for its broad bibliographical qualities. For cultural studies students, Americanists, and others, the book will demonstrate the complexity of cultural appropriation and the patterns of nineteenth-century American resistance and harmonization.