Native American
Alaska Native, First Nations, & Native American Can Make Their Economies Work
Alaska Native, First Nations, & Native American Can Make Their Economies Work
By
Terrance H. Booth, Sr. – Tsimshian Tribe
From the first president of America to the current president American Indians have confronted this nation’s leadership from President Washington to President Obama. From the very start of this nation called America Indian policies took it start from President George Washington. One would think that after 227 years of confronting American presidents and the elected officials of Washington, DC that in this day and age that the social and economic problems of Alaska Native and American Indian would be fully resolved. Starting from….. “October 15, 1783 a select committee headed by James Duane, to whom papers relating to Indian Affair have been committed, made a report to the Continental Congress on October 15, 1783, which outlined procedure for dealing with Indians in the North and West.” (From Documents of United States Indian Policy, Edited by Francis Paul Prucha, page 3, Proclamation of the Continental Congress, September 22, 1783) This writer only wants to show how long Alaska Native and Native American Tribes have been confronting this Nation’s leaders and elected officials specifically to address their social and economic conditions.
On the bright side current day Indian Affairs has tribal consultation with all of the federal agencies that oversee Indian Affairs. However, as the general public sees most tribes have tribal casinos that earn revenues for their tribal people. Out of the 554 Tribes only 115 Tribes have tribal casinos. The public at-large only see the bleak side of America’s Indigenous, the high rate of unemployment, out of parity to that of the rest of America in about any professional field. There are a great number of successes with in Indian Country, USA. The US Census reports that there are 237, 000 plus Native Companies earnings are at $34.5 Billion dollars. These companies are other than gaming businesses.
Any researcher on tribal economies looking at tribal reservations would identify “economic leakages.” Meaning tribal dollars that are spent off-reservation settings is an “economic leakage.” Most tribal people go off their reservation settings for household goods, for clothing, for groceries, fuel for their vehicles, for movies, and tribes usually pay lot of the tribal dollar budgets for goods and services. This means there are many “economic leakages” on tribal lands dollars going off the reservation settings instead of remaining within the tribal communities. Perhaps the largest “economic leakage” for tribes that do not have their own tribal utility companies is dollars again going off-reservation settings. Some of the American Indian Companies have realized that their particular reservation setting has many “economic leakages” have established successful businesses and have located their company on tribal lands; thereby, capturing the dollars that would have gone off-reservation.
The tribal businesses need to know their own tribal people and their buying power. “Native Americans’ buying power will increase from $19.7 million in 1990 to $84.6 million in 2013, an increase of 329.0%, which is significantly higher than the 209.1% growth rate for Whites. Native Americans’ share of the consumer market will be 0.6% in 2013.” (Jeffrey M. Humphreys, “The multicultural economy 2007: America’s minority buying power,” Selig Center for Economic Growth, University of Georgia (2008)). Once tribes can realize that their own strengths lies within themselves and new Native companies begin to tap into the buying power of their own people successes begin to fall into place. Working together is starting to become a reality among some of the tribes marking success stories happen for all of Indian Country, USA. We read where California tribes built a hotel in Sacramento, California. Just imagine if all the gaming tribes collectively got together as tribes to specifically address eliminating poverty from all of Indian Country, USA. That is beginning to happen by several tribes who joined forces with great success.
There are natural Tribal Alliances just waiting to happen. For example all the fisheries tribes of the Alaska, British Columbia and Pacific Northwest tribes there can form a fisheries alliance to cooperatively work together to create volumes of seafood for the globe. Why do tribes fish for other seafood companies or seafood brokers who receive more financial benefits by value-adding the salmon products and turn around with higher profits? Through a cooperative Native Fisheries Alliance the fisheries tribes can have full control over their tribal fisheries industry by creation of their own marketing strategies, their own Native Brand, their own state of the art seafood processing plants for multitude of value-adding all seafood products and having the ability for year around fisheries, modern fishing fleet for higher harvesting yield and have the ability for year around fisheries; value add with portion sizing, gift packaging with Native Designs for all seafood products, ability to seek all available seafood licenses to develop year around fisheries and year around jobs for the Native villages into fisheries.
Plus, the national grocery store chains have diversity programs where minority companies with their food products can be a supplier of all our seafood products to several grocery store chains. With specialty foods, special gift boxes can go to the specialty food stores for high end consumers. From among ourselves are several Native restaurants attached to Tribal Casinos that would readily buy Native Seafood Products. Several tribes are doing all these activities if all the fisheries tribes can form an International Native Fisheries Cooperative designed specifically to empower our fisheries tribes to confront and engage in a global economy. This will present tribal economic opportunities and enhance opportunities to gain substantial tribal wealth development. It will give to the tribes the full ability to take greater control over the fisheries industry of all the areas where fisheries tribes reside; fair and just prices for fishermen, seafood harvesters, seafood processors workers, and tribes get to have their own labeling, establish a network of marketing to one another, the globe and enrich one another by working together. The Fisheries Cooperative will do marketing, sales, establish a global outreach, and utilize all available resources and financing to establish tribal self-determination to its fullest course of endeavor that will be beneficial for all fisheries tribes.
The very same opportunity can happen with agriculture tribes for several Native Farming operation sell to national and international markets. They can form an International Native Agriculture Cooperative among themselves to collectively work together, establish Native Name Brands, more Native Designed packaging, sharing of resources, one tribe has farm products and another tribe may have the ability to value add the farm products. It is said or documented that 3/5 of the food products comes from American Indians or the Indigenous of Mexico. So we have several tribes individually being successful at what they do. It is time to make a greater impact upon the global economy and fully establish ourselves to become one of the global tribes as dubbed by Joel Kotkin in his book called “Tribes.” But he talks about How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy. Let’s move forward to take full command of our own environments, our own tribal settings, our own tribal values and be ourselves as Native People by awaking to the new realities of a global economy. In the 227 years confronting this Nation’s leaders who are still attempting to resolve our social and economic problems it can happen from ourselves. It is time to give successful reports to the Indian Affairs Committee and we can eliminate poverty ourselves.
About the Author
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The Indian in the Cupboard $4.52 Enchanting adaptation of the popular children’s book centering on Omri, a young boy whose cupboard has the power to bring inanimate figures to life. Little Bear, a tiny Indian, comes alive, along with a Texas cowboy named Boone. When the two characters begin to fight, Omri learns some important lessons about life. Hal Scardino, Litefoot, and David Keith star. 96 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtr… |
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But It Doesn’t Look Indian: Objects, Archetypes and Objectified Others in Native American Art, Culture and Identity. $74.53 New – The dissertation considers how stereotypes have contributed to the perpetuation of certain ideals in the construction and appreciation of Native American art, culture and identity. These stereotypes have been supported and upheld by concepts like “tradition” and “authenticity,” which are themselves suspect for what they promote and hide. Over four case studies the author discusses several kinds of “suspect” cultural activities, including the production of tourist art, the reclamation of lo |
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How Quickly They Forget: American Indians in European Film, 1962–1976. $82.8 New – This study will examine representations of American Indians in Cold War German and Italian cinema. While the widely read works of Karl May provided literary models, it was through the medium of film that European screenwriters and directors furthered a fantastic relationship to Native American people. This dissertation will examine in particular how the cinematic presence of American Indians in German and Italian films during the Cold War period represented the differing needs of many of t |
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How Quickly They Forget: American Indians in European Film, 1962–1976. $81.79 Used – This study will examine representations of American Indians in Cold War German and Italian cinema. While the widely read works of Karl May provided literary models, it was through the medium of film that European screenwriters and directors furthered a fantastic relationship to Native American people. This dissertation will examine in particular how the cinematic presence of American Indians in German and Italian films during the Cold War period represented the differing needs of many of |
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I Can Think of a Lot of Stories.: Shared Knowledges, Indigenous Methodology and Purposeful Conversations with Sixteen Native Women in Seattle. $74.61 Used – This project engaged indigenous women in conversations about knowledge. American Indian and Alaska Native women asked me to initiate it. The women involved represented a range of situated and partial knowledges in a variety of communities. The question we considered was: What should be in a book by and about American Indian women? Conversations touched on epistemology, identities, colonialism, survivance, politics, spirituality, sovereignty, violence, oppressions, discounted knowledges an |
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Mayflower: A Voyage to War $0.99 Used – Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick’s new book tells the story of the Pilgrim fathers who set sail on the Mayflower and the bloody battle they ultimately waged against the Native Americans. Behind the quaint and pious version of the “Mayflower” story usually taught in American grade schools is a tumultuous and largely untold tale of violence, subterfuge and epic drama. Following the Pilgrims on their perilous journey from England on a battered, leaky ship, through their first bitter No |
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Mayflower: A Voyage to War $2.25 Used – Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick’s new book tells the story of the Pilgrim fathers who set sail on the Mayflower and the bloody battle they ultimately waged against the Native Americans. Behind the quaint and pious version of the “Mayflower” story usually taught in American grade schools is a tumultuous and largely untold tale of violence, subterfuge and epic drama. Following the Pilgrims on their perilous journey from England on a battered, leaky ship, through their first bitter No |
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Mayflower: A Voyage to War $4.5 Used – Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick’s new book tells the story of the Pilgrim fathers who set sail on the Mayflower and the bloody battle they ultimately waged against the Native Americans. Behind the quaint and pious version of the “Mayflower” story usually taught in American grade schools is a tumultuous and largely untold tale of violence, subterfuge and epic drama. Following the Pilgrims on their perilous journey from England on a battered, leaky ship, through their first bitter No |
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Mayflower: A Voyage to War $45.95 Used – Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick’s new book tells the story of the Pilgrim fathers who set sail on the Mayflower and the bloody battle they ultimately waged against the Native Americans. Behind the quaint and pious version of the “Mayflower” story usually taught in American grade schools is a tumultuous and largely untold tale of violence, subterfuge and epic drama. Following the Pilgrims on their perilous journey from England on a battered, leaky ship, through their first bitter No |
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Minority Status, Oppositional Culture and Schooling $56.95 This book is the definitive and final presentation of John Ogbu’s cultural ecological model and the many debates that his work has sparked during the past decade. The theory and empirical foundation of Ogbu’s scholarship, which some have mistakenly reduced to the acting white hypothesis, is fully presented and re-visited in this posthumous collection of his new writings plus the works of over 20 scholars. Ogbu’s own chapters present how his ideas about minority education and culture developed. Readers will find in these chapters the theoretical roots of his cultural ecological model. The book is organized as a dialogue between John Ogbu and the scholarly community, including his most ardent critics; Ogbu’s own work can be read at the same time as his critics have their say. Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, and Schooling examines content, methodological, and policy issues framing the debate on academic achievement, school engagement, and oppositional culture. It brings together in one volume, for the first time, some of the most critical works on these issues as well as examples of programs aimed at re-engagement. In addition to African Americans, it also looks at school engagement among Native American and Latino students. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of the academic achievement gap. |
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Strong Medicine Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say By Amy Hill Hearth $23 <b>From the bestselling author of <I>Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years</i> comes the inspiring true story of Marion “Strong Medicine” Gould, a Native American matriarch, and the Indian way of life that must never be forgotten.</b><P>Amy Hill Hearth’s first book, <I>Having Our Say</i>, told the true story of two century-old African-American sisters and went on to become an enduring bestseller and the subject of a three-time Tony Award-nominated play. In <I>”Strong Medicine” Speaks</i>, Hearth turns her talent for storytelling to a Native American matriarch presenting a powerful account of Indian life.<P>Born and raised in a nearly secret part of New Jersey that remains Native ancestral land, Marion “Strong Medicine” Gould is an eighty-five-year-old Elder in her Lenni-Lenape tribe and community. Taking turns with the author as the two women alternate voices throughout this moving book, Strong Medicine tells of her ancestry, tracing it back to the first Native peoples to encounter the Europeans in 1524, through the strife and bloodshed of America’s early years, up to the twentieth century and her own lifetime, decades colored by oppression and terror yet still lifted up by the strength of an enduring collective spirit.<P>This genuine and delightful telling gives voice to a powerful female Elder whose dry wit and charming humor will provide wisdom and inspiration to readers from every background. |
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Strong Medicine Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say By Amy Hill Hearth $15.99 <b>From the bestselling author of <I>Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years</i> comes the inspiring true story of Marion “Strong Medicine” Gould, a Native American matriarch, and the Indian way of life that must never be forgotten.</b><P>Amy Hill Hearth’s first book, <I>Having Our Say</i>, told the true story of two century-old African-American sisters and went on to become an enduring bestseller and the subject of a three-time Tony Award-nominated play. In <I>”Strong Medicine” Speaks</i>, Hearth turns her talent for storytelling to a Native American matriarch presenting a powerful account of Indian life.<P>Born and raised in a nearly secret part of New Jersey that remains Native ancestral land, Marion “Strong Medicine” Gould is an eighty-five-year-old Elder in her Lenni-Lenape tribe and community. Taking turns with the author as the two women alternate voices throughout this moving book, Strong Medicine tells of her ancestry, tracing it back to the first Native peoples to encounter the Europeans in 1524, through the strife and bloodshed of America’s early years, up to the twentieth century and her own lifetime, decades colored by oppression and terror yet still lifted up by the strength of an enduring collective spirit.<P>This genuine and delightful telling gives voice to a powerful female Elder whose dry wit and charming humor will provide wisdom and inspiration to readers from every background. |
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The Harmony Way: Integrating Indigenous Values Within Native North American Theology and Mission. $74.51 Used – Given that Western models of mission have failed among Native Americans and that colonial practices have devastated native communities, this research sought a better way of pursuing Christian mission among Native Americans by asking two questions: (1) Do Native American have a generally shared set of values that could guide the construction of new models for mission in North American Native communities, and, if so, to what degree are these values shared among Native American communities? |
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The Indians Would Be Too Near Us: Paths of Disunion in the Making of Kansas, 1848–1870. $82.13 New – The dissertation complicates the familiar narrative about the coming of the Civil War in American national history by exploring how several Native American groups participated in the conflicts of Kansas Territory. The creation of Kansas in the lands reserved for removed tribes brought fervent local negotiation over land and treaty rights between Indians and whites. Most Indians were forced to select new options and allegiances by the impositions of white settlers’ agendas and federal initi |
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The Indians Would Be Too Near Us: Paths of Disunion in the Making of Kansas, 1848–1870. $82.13 Used – The dissertation complicates the familiar narrative about the coming of the Civil War in American national history by exploring how several Native American groups participated in the conflicts of Kansas Territory. The creation of Kansas in the lands reserved for removed tribes brought fervent local negotiation over land and treaty rights between Indians and whites. Most Indians were forced to select new options and allegiances by the impositions of white settlers’ agendas and federal init |
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They’d Sing and They’d Tell: Native American Song Cycles and Creation Stories in Southern California. $116.81 New – This study addresses music-making throughout a relatively large geographical region, one that extends beyond Southern California to include part of Northern Baja California in Mexico and also a portion of Arizona, an area designated here as the Extended Southern California Region (ESCR). Throughout the ESCR, singers from the various tribes perform “song cycles.” A night-long performance of a song cycle generally involves the singing of a series of some 200 to 300 individual songs. In ESCR |
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”All-American Monster”: The Unauthorized Biography of Timothy McVeigh $13.99 In this riveting and revealing biography of Timothy McVeigh, Brandon M. Stickney not only answers many of the compelling questions surrounding McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, but puts this critical information into the broader perspective of McVeigh’s childhood, his education, military service, and his efforts to find meaning and purpose in life. A reporter and a native of the western New York area where McVeigh was born and raised, Stickney draws on personal experience as well as numerous interviews with McVeigh’s family, friends, and associates to offer intimate details of Tim’s lifefactors that contributed to his startling transformation.Stickney carefully fits together the complex pieces of the puzzle that is Timothy McVeigh. Utilizing little-known and often shocking pieces of information the fruits of an intense investigation Stickney transports readers inside the mind of McVeigh to discover what might well have been his thoughts and feelings as his life moved closer and closer to that fateful April morning.”Stickney is well suited to write a biography of accused Oklahoma City bombing suspect and Lockport native McVeigh, since he is a lifelong resident of the area. He utilizes that advantage in this admirable search for the influences that shaped the personality of his subject.” –Publishers Weekly |
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”Indians in the house”: Revisiting American Indians in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ”Little House” books. $49.99 Laura Ingalls Wilder’s eight-novel Little House series, published between 1932 and 1943, is among the most acclaimed and controversial examples of modern children’s literature. The narrative tells the true story of Wilder’s pioneer childhood in the 1870s and 80s, including her family’s encounters with American Indians. Recently some scholars have argued that Wilder’s depiction of American Indians is derogatory, but examining Wilder’s literary devices and contextualizing the story in the eras in which it occurred and was written about reveals a more complex portrayal of Native themes. Biographical information about Wilder suggests that she deliberately crafted her story as she recorded it; such changes afforded opportunities to emphasize her political values and critique mythology associated with America’s frontier era. Analyzing the narrative in the context of frontier Kansas, and more specifically as women’s frontier literature, reveals the literary uniqueness of the Little House story and highlights fallacies inherent in the premise of Manifest Destiny. As Wilder recorded her memories with the help of her well-known libertarian daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, during the Depression they often emphasized their anti-New Deal politics and cautioned readers about the dangers of buying into “big government” policies. The Little House story also reflects trends of the Golden Age of children’s literature which demonstrated respect for children by removing didactic lessons from the literature; thus the Little House texts present the controversial subject of America’s frontier history in a manner that allows children to draw their own conclusions about it. Finally, two television versions of the Little House story present didactic, positive lessons about American Indians on the frontier, but diminish the possibility for multiple interpretations of the events inherent in Wilder’s original story. In a non-fiction article in The Missouri Ruralist in 1920, Wilder reminded her |
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”Indians in the house”: Revisiting American Indians in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ”Little House” books. $49.99 Laura Ingalls Wilder’s eight-novel Little House series, published between 1932 and 1943, is among the most acclaimed and controversial examples of modern children’s literature. The narrative tells the true story of Wilder’s pioneer childhood in the 1870s and 80s, including her family’s encounters with American Indians. Recently some scholars have argued that Wilder’s depiction of American Indians is derogatory, but examining Wilder’s literary devices and contextualizing the story in the eras in which it occurred and was written about reveals a more complex portrayal of Native themes. Biographical information about Wilder suggests that she deliberately crafted her story as she recorded it; such changes afforded opportunities to emphasize her political values and critique mythology associated with America’s frontier era. Analyzing the narrative in the context of frontier Kansas, and more specifically as women’s frontier literature, reveals the literary uniqueness of the Little House story and highlights fallacies inherent in the premise of Manifest Destiny. As Wilder recorded her memories with the help of her well-known libertarian daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, during the Depression they often emphasized their anti-New Deal politics and cautioned readers about the dangers of buying into “big government” policies. The Little House story also reflects trends of the Golden Age of children’s literature which demonstrated respect for children by removing didactic lessons from the literature; thus the Little House texts present the controversial subject of America’s frontier history in a manner that allows children to draw their own conclusions about it. Finally, two television versions of the Little House story present didactic, positive lessons about American Indians on the frontier, but diminish the possibility for multiple interpretations of the events inherent in Wilder’s original story. In a non-fiction article in The Missouri Ruralist in 1920, Wilder reminded her |
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”It is what holds us together as a people”: A history of the Ak-Chin Indian Community. $49.99 The relationship of land and water has always been central to the identity of the Ak-Chin Indian Community of southern Arizona. Ak-Chin’s very name derives from the interaction of the two: “mouth of the wash” or “place where the wash loses itself in the sand.” Although it became a reservation in 1912, Ak-Chin’s history began much earlier, specifically among the Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham. As inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert, the O’odham were accustomed to adjusting to a varying environment. Similarly, the Ak-Chin people adapted to new situations, opportunities, and challenges. Into the next century, the community continued to exhibit the same resilience and adaptability as previously by defining and maintaining its identity through leadership and self-determination.;As Native peoples of what later became the American Southwest, the O’odham faced colonization by explorers and missionaries in New Spain’s northern frontier, which continued to influence their religious beliefs. Eventually, O’odham land became part of the Republic of Mexico until the Gadsden Purchase caused further shirting of political boundaries with the region’s occupation by the United States. For much of the twentieth century, the Ak-Chin people struggled over maintaining their farmland and water as a result of the rapid arrival of many non-Native occupants to the area just south of Phoenix and Maricopa. The formal struggle lasted over twenty years, culminating with the negotiation of the first water rights settlement between a Native community and the United States. In turn, that success motivated other accomplishments, including the U.S.’s first eco-museum. Ultimately, the community renewed its sense of identity, perseverance to survive, and maintenance of tradition in a rapidly changing and modernizing world.;Using archival documents, ethnographic materials, images, and other sources, this dissertation examines the Ak-Chin Indian Community’s history as a continuing story. Some aspects of |
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”It is what holds us together as a people”: A history of the Ak-Chin Indian Community. $49.99 The relationship of land and water has always been central to the identity of the Ak-Chin Indian Community of southern Arizona. Ak-Chin’s very name derives from the interaction of the two: “mouth of the wash” or “place where the wash loses itself in the sand.” Although it became a reservation in 1912, Ak-Chin’s history began much earlier, specifically among the Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham. As inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert, the O’odham were accustomed to adjusting to a varying environment. Similarly, the Ak-Chin people adapted to new situations, opportunities, and challenges. Into the next century, the community continued to exhibit the same resilience and adaptability as previously by defining and maintaining its identity through leadership and self-determination.;As Native peoples of what later became the American Southwest, the O’odham faced colonization by explorers and missionaries in New Spain’s northern frontier, which continued to influence their religious beliefs. Eventually, O’odham land became part of the Republic of Mexico until the Gadsden Purchase caused further shirting of political boundaries with the region’s occupation by the United States. For much of the twentieth century, the Ak-Chin people struggled over maintaining their farmland and water as a result of the rapid arrival of many non-Native occupants to the area just south of Phoenix and Maricopa. The formal struggle lasted over twenty years, culminating with the negotiation of the first water rights settlement between a Native community and the United States. In turn, that success motivated other accomplishments, including the U.S.’s first eco-museum. Ultimately, the community renewed its sense of identity, perseverance to survive, and maintenance of tradition in a rapidly changing and modernizing world.;Using archival documents, ethnographic materials, images, and other sources, this dissertation examines the Ak-Chin Indian Community’s history as a continuing story. Some aspects of |
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”Lily Park” for symphony orchestra. $49.99 Composers have long been interested in authentic materials from their own national heritage. Many composers favored folk-based melodies and rhythms. Bela Bartok, for example, collected volumes of Hungarian folk and gypsy melodies throughout his life. Igor Stravinsky’s three ballets (Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring) are also famous for their employment of folk melodies and primitive rhythms. American composers such as Charles Ives and Aaron Copland represented ‘Americana’ through the use of American pop music, jazz, and folk songs in their compositions. Much of the music of composers who emigrated to foreign countries represents strong implications of nationalism. These composers’ efforts to remember their origins, as well as nostalgia for their native culture, were expressed in their music. These qualities appear most interestingly in Asian composers such as Toru Takemitsu and Isang Yun. Despite the drastic difference between Asian and Western music, the two contrasting idioms are handled similarly by these two composers. They not only use non-Western musical materials such as folk melodies and rhythms, but also employ Asian titles, concepts, and traditional instruments to represent Asian inspiration in their music.;The composition Lily Park consists of three movements, entitled Wind Bell, Goblin Lights, and Rock of Ages . The three movements are based on my personal impressions of the cemetery Lily Park, located near Deagu, Korea, where all my grandparents are buried. In this composition, Western musical idioms are integrated with the composer’s Asian musical heritage. The concept of Lily Park , which is purely non-Western in origination, is realized by utilizing compositional techniques and concepts that have been developed by Western composers, such as tone color, tonality, pitch-class set theory, and serialism, with an ensemble that consists of Western instruments. These ideas are combined with Asian materials such as exotic scales, extended |
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”They’d sing and they’d tell”: Native American song cycles and creation stories in Southern California. $49.99 Steven Joel. Elster,NOOK Study eTextbook, English-language edition,Pub by ProQuest LLC |
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”They’d sing and they’d tell”: Native American song cycles and creation stories in Southern California. $49.99 Steven Joel. Elster,NOOK Study eTextbook, English-language edition,Pub by ProQuest LLC |
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‘Do Good Things for the Fish’: Organizational Innovation in Tribal Governance. $74.77 Used – This dissertation examines the organizational aspects of fish and wildlife management for Native American nations. Fish and wildlife management is an arena of great importance to many Native nations in subsistence, economic and cultural realms. Additionally, fish and wildlife, being common-pool resources, offer interesting management challenges. My research focuses on what happens when Native American nations exercise self-determination in this arena which requires them for both political |
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‘Do good things for the fish’: Organizational innovation in tribal governance. $49.99 This dissertation examines the organizational aspects of fish and wildlife management for Native American nations. Fish and wildlife management is an arena of great importance to many Native nations in subsistence, economic and cultural realms. Additionally, fish and wildlife, being common-pool resources, offer interesting management challenges. My research focuses on what happens when Native American nations exercise self-determination in this arena which requires them for both political and practical reasons to interact with state and federal governments and for economic reasons to deal with markets, all while attempting to meet the needs of their nations. Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and drawing upon survey and case study research with Native American fish and wildlife programs, I examine how tribes manage their fish and wildlife resources and with what results.;This research helps identify under what conditions tribes may achieve various management goals. In some important ways, tribes are limited in what they can do, particularly in regards to land base size and degree of jurisdiction over non-Indians. More importantly, however, this research identifies some of the many ways tribes can work to take charge of or support tribal fish and wildlife management without having to appeal to outsiders. While there are some very real limitations to fish and wildlife management external to tribes, within those limits, tribes have opportunities to assume and be effective in resource management.;This dissertation also provides evidence to suggest that as tribes are better able to determine their own management and governance paths, elements of clan structures and logics develop where the organizational literature would predict they would not. Studying tribal fish and wildlife programs in particular offers an examination of these clan-like features typically found only on the societal fringes. Perhaps even more importantly, this dissertation research |
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‘Do good things for the fish’: Organizational innovation in tribal governance. $108 This dissertation examines the organizational aspects of fish and wildlife management for Native American nations. Fish and wildlife management is an arena of great importance to many Native nations in subsistence, economic and cultural realms. Additionally, fish and wildlife, being common-pool resources, offer interesting management challenges. My research focuses on what happens when Native American nations exercise self-determination in this arena which requires them for both political and practical reasons to interact with state and federal governments and for economic reasons to deal with markets, all while attempting to meet the needs of their nations. Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and drawing upon survey and case study research with Native American fish and wildlife programs, I examine how tribes manage their fish and wildlife resources and with what results.;This research helps identify under what conditions tribes may achieve various management goals. In some important ways, tribes are limited in what they can do, particularly in regards to land base size and degree of jurisdiction over non-Indians. More importantly, however, this research identifies some of the many ways tribes can work to take charge of or support tribal fish and wildlife management without having to appeal to outsiders. While there are some very real limitations to fish and wildlife management external to tribes, within those limits, tribes have opportunities to assume and be effective in resource management.;This dissertation also provides evidence to suggest that as tribes are better able to determine their own management and governance paths, elements of clan structures and logics develop where the organizational literature would predict they would not. Studying tribal fish and wildlife programs in particular offers an examination of these clan-like features typically found only on the societal fringes. Perhaps even more importantly, this dissertation research |
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‘Do good things for the fish’: Organizational innovation in tribal governance. $49.99 This dissertation examines the organizational aspects of fish and wildlife management for Native American nations. Fish and wildlife management is an arena of great importance to many Native nations in subsistence, economic and cultural realms. Additionally, fish and wildlife, being common-pool resources, offer interesting management challenges. My research focuses on what happens when Native American nations exercise self-determination in this arena which requires them for both political and practical reasons to interact with state and federal governments and for economic reasons to deal with markets, all while attempting to meet the needs of their nations. Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and drawing upon survey and case study research with Native American fish and wildlife programs, I examine how tribes manage their fish and wildlife resources and with what results.;This research helps identify under what conditions tribes may achieve various management goals. In some important ways, tribes are limited in what they can do, particularly in regards to land base size and degree of jurisdiction over non-Indians. More importantly, however, this research identifies some of the many ways tribes can work to take charge of or support tribal fish and wildlife management without having to appeal to outsiders. While there are some very real limitations to fish and wildlife management external to tribes, within those limits, tribes have opportunities to assume and be effective in resource management.;This dissertation also provides evidence to suggest that as tribes are better able to determine their own management and governance paths, elements of clan structures and logics develop where the organizational literature would predict they would not. Studying tribal fish and wildlife programs in particular offers an examination of these clan-like features typically found only on the societal fringes. Perhaps even more importantly, this dissertation research |
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‘Injuns!’: Native Americans in the Movies $3.49 The indispensable sage, fierce enemy, silent sidekick: the role of Native Americans in film has been largely confined to identities defined by the “white” perspective. Many studies have analyzed these simplistic stereotypes of Native American cultures in film, but few have looked beyond the Hollywood Western for further examples. Distinguished film scholar Edward Buscombe offers here an incisive study that examines cinematic depictions of Native Americans from a global perspective. Buscombe opens with a historical survey of American Westerns and their controversial portrayals of Native Americans: the wild redmen of nineteenth-century Wild West shows, the more sympathetic depictions of Native Americans in early Westerns, and the shift in the American film industry in the 1920s to hostile characterizations of Indians. Questioning the implicit assumptions of prevailing critiques, Buscombe looks abroad to reveal a distinctly different portrait of Native Americans. He focuses on the lesser known Westerns made in Germany—such as East Germany’s Indianerfilme, in which Native Americans were Third World freedom fighters battling against Yankee imperialists—as well as the films based on the novels of nineteenth-century German writer Karl May. These alternative portrayals of Native Americans offer a vastly different view of their cultural position in American society.Buscombe offers nothing less than a wholly original and readable account of the cultural images of Native Americans through history andaround  the globe, revealing new and complex issues in our understanding of how oppressed peoples have been represented in mass culture. |
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‘Romancing the Margins’?: Lesbian Writing in the 1990s $18.51 ”Romancing the Margins”?: Lesbian Writing in the 1990s explores the range of critical responses to lesbian writing on issues of gender, sexuality, and lesbian identity, in the final decade of the 20th century. Discussing contemporary texts such as Sarah Schulman’’s novel Empathy, Native American lesbian writing, biographies and autobiographies, and other texts by and about lesbians, this volume stresses the diversity of gender and sexual identity in the 1990s and raises questions about the politics of those positions. |
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‘injuns!’ $16 The indispensable sage, fierce enemy, silent sidekick: the role of Native Americans in film has been largely confined to identities defined by the white perspective. Many studies have analyzed these simplistic stereotypes of Native American cultures in film, but few have looked beyond the Hollywood Western for further examples. Distinguished film scholar Edward Buscombe offers here an incisive study that examines cinematic depictions of Native Americans from a global perspective. Buscombe opens with a historical survey of American Westerns and their controversial portrayals of Native Americans: the wild redmen of nineteenth-century Wild West shows, the more sympathetic depictions of Native Americans in early Westerns, and the shift in the American film industry in the 1920s to hostile characterizations of Indians. Questioning the implicit assumptions of prevailing critiques, Buscombe looks abroad to reveal a distinctly different portrait of Native Americans. He focuses on the lesser known Westerns made in Germany such as East Germany s Indianerfilme, in which Native Americans were Third World freedom fighters battling against Yankee imperialists as well as the films based on the novels of nineteenth-century German writer Karl May. These alternative portrayals of Native Americans offer a vastly different view of their cultural position in American society. Buscombe offers nothing less than a wholly original and readable account of the cultural images of Native Americans through history andaround the globe, revealing new and complex issues in our understanding of how oppressed peoples have been represented in mass culture. |
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… Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory …… $38.1 Used – Especially notable for Lucien Turner’s descriptions of nineteenth-century Native material culture, Ethnology of the Ungava District was originally published in 1894 as part of the Smithsonian’s Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology series — often considered to mark the beginning of American anthropological studies. This reissue, with an insightful new introduction, ensures that Turner’s work continues to be a classic introduction to the culture of the Innu and Inuit people of |
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014-SIENNA, 0 Flat Sandal Childrens by Ellie Shoes $19.95 What a pretty little Pocahontas! And how! So when you?re searching far and wide for the perfect pair of moccasins to match your Native American costume, check out these Child Native American Shoes! Our Child Native American Shoes have a flat sole and come in an earthy brown! There is a thong at the front to anchor between your toes and a lovely brown fringed braid that goes the entire length of the foot. This is a simple look but it will make your costume simply stunning with this as part of the whole ensemble! For a great native natural look, there is no comparison so order this today! |
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014-SIENNA, 0 Flat Sandal Childrens by Ellie Shoes $19.95 What a pretty little Pocahontas! And how! So when you?re searching far and wide for the perfect pair of moccasins to match your Native American costume, check out these Child Native American Shoes! Our Child Native American Shoes have a flat sole and come in an earthy brown! There is a thong at the front to anchor between your toes and a lovely brown fringed braid that goes the entire length of the foot. This is a simple look but it will make your costume simply stunning with this as part of the whole ensemble! For a great native natural look, there is no comparison so order this today! |
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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America $30 A companion book to The History Channel® special series of ten one-hour documentaries10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America pinpoints pivotal days that transformed our nation. For the series and the book, The History Channel challenged a panel of leading historians, including author Steven M. Gillon, to come up with some less well-known but historically significant events that triggered change in America. Together, the days they chose tell a story about the great democratic ideals upon which our country was built. You won’t find July 4, 1776, for instance, or the attack on Fort Sumter that ignited the Civil War, or the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. But January 25, 1787, is here. On that day, the ragtag men of Shays’ Rebellion attacked the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, and set the new nation on the path to a strong central government. January 24, 1848, is also on the list. That’s when a carpenter named John Marshall spotted a few glittering flakes of gold in a California riverbed. The discovery profoundly altered the American dream. Here, too, is the day that noted pacifist Albert Einstein unwittingly advocated the creation of the Manhattan Project, thus setting in motion a terrible chain of events. Re-creating each event with vivid immediacy, accessibility, and historical accuracy, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America comes together as a history of our country, from the first colonists’ contact with Native Americans to the 1960s. It is a snapshot of our country as we were, are, and will be. |
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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America $0.01 A companion book to The History Channel® special series of ten one-hour documentaries10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America pinpoints pivotal days that transformed our nation. For the series and the book, The History Channel challenged a panel of leading historians, including author Steven M. Gillon, to come up with some less well-known but historically significant events that triggered change in America. Together, the days they chose tell a story about the great democratic ideals upon which our country was built. You won’t find July 4, 1776, for instance, or the attack on Fort Sumter that ignited the Civil War, or the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. But January 25, 1787, is here. On that day, the ragtag men of Shays’ Rebellion attacked the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, and set the new nation on the path to a strong central government. January 24, 1848, is also on the list. That’s when a carpenter named John Marshall spotted a few glittering flakes of gold in a California riverbed. The discovery profoundly altered the American dream. Here, too, is the day that noted pacifist Albert Einstein unwittingly advocated the creation of the Manhattan Project, thus setting in motion a terrible chain of events. Re-creating each event with vivid immediacy, accessibility, and historical accuracy, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America comes together as a history of our country, from the first colonists’ contact with Native Americans to the 1960s. It is a snapshot of our country as we were, are, and will be. |
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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America $7.98 A companion book to The History Channel® special series of ten one-hour documentaries10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America pinpoints pivotal days that transformed our nation. For the series and the book, The History Channel challenged a panel of leading historians, including author Steven M. Gillon, to come up with some less well-known but historically significant events that triggered change in America. Together, the days they chose tell a story about the great democratic ideals upon which our country was built. You won’t find July 4, 1776, for instance, or the attack on Fort Sumter that ignited the Civil War, or the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. But January 25, 1787, is here. On that day, the ragtag men of Shays’ Rebellion attacked the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, and set the new nation on the path to a strong central government. January 24, 1848, is also on the list. That’s when a carpenter named John Marshall spotted a few glittering flakes of gold in a California riverbed. The discovery profoundly altered the American dream. Here, too, is the day that noted pacifist Albert Einstein unwittingly advocated the creation of the Manhattan Project, thus setting in motion a terrible chain of events. Re-creating each event with vivid immediacy, accessibility, and historical accuracy, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America comes together as a history of our country, from the first colonists’ contact with Native Americans to the 1960s. It is a snapshot of our country as we were, are, and will be. |
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100 African Americans Who Changed American History $64.95 New – Now, from the publishers of The World Almanac, comes an exciting, wide ranging look at Americans who have had the most profound impact on the shape of American history–including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. Each title in the People Who Changed American History series contains capsule biographics that mix the essential accomplishments of their subjects with fascinating, lesser known details. Arranged chronologically and covering all aspects of American histo |
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100 African Americans Who Changed American History $26.47 Used – Now, from the publishers of The World Almanac, comes an exciting, wide ranging look at Americans who have had the most profound impact on the shape of American history–including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. Each title in the People Who Changed American History series contains capsule biographics that mix the essential accomplishments of their subjects with fascinating, lesser known details. Arranged chronologically and covering all aspects of American hist |
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100 American Flags: A Unique Collection of Old Glory Memorabilia $0.99 Used – The American flag has been raised high in wartime triumph and peacetime celebration; sewn lovingly onto quilts, caps, pillows, and bags; appropriated by popular culture; and faithfully honoured every Fourth of July. This vibrant collection of 100 Stars and Stripes artefacts ranges from Civil War-era banners and Native American braided moccasins to an early 20th-century ‘friendship’ kimono and original flag art by several of the world’s leading designers. Destined to captivate folk-art afi |
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100 American Flags: A Unique Collection of Old Glory Memorabilia $0.8 The American flag has been raised high in wartime triumph and peacetime celebration; sewn lovingly onto quilts, caps, pillows, and bags; appropriated by popular culture; and faithfully honored every Fourth of July. This vibrant collection of 100 Stars and Stripes artifacts ranges from Civil War-era banners and Native American braided moccasins to an early 20th-century "friendship" kimono and original flag art by several of the world’s leading designers. Destined to captivate folk-art aficionados, history buffs, and collectors, 100 AMERICAN FLAGS provides a stunning visual history of America’s most treasured symbol. A timely, patriotic full-color book presenting 100 American flag artifacts from one of the world’s most eminent collectors, designer Kit Hinrichs. Selected images from LONG MAY SHE WAVE in an affordable, collectible edition. Election year and wartime keepsake, displaying nonpartisan national pride.   |
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100 Artists of the Southwest $11.15 This book features the works of 100 important artists living and working in New Mexico and Arizona today. These artists are being passionately collected by individuals, purchased for museum collections, and found in the news pages of the art world. There are famous artists, to be sure, along with discoveries that you will be delighted to meet. Over 400 full color photographs feature the broad spectrum of leading artists including the startlingly beautiful contemporary work of Native American artists, whose ancestry is as evident as a vision for their future, as well as Hispanic artists who have updated religious icons found in every devout Southwestern home and chapel. There are painters, sculptors, photographers, potters, weavers, and jewelers. Their stories and artworks will amaze as well as illuminate. All in all, you will come away with the most vibrant picture of contemporary Southwestern art that you can find anywhere. |
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100 Birds and how They Got Their Names $18.95 How did cranes come to symbolize matrimonial happiness? Why were magpies the only creatures that would not go inside Noah’s Ark? Birds and bird imagery are integral parts of our language and culture. With her remarkable ability to dig up curious and captivating facts, Diana Wells hatches a treat for active birders and armchair enthusiasts alike. Meet the intrepid adventurers and naturalists who risked their lives to describe and name new birds. Learn the mythical stories of the gods and goddess associated with bird names. Explore the avian emblems used by our greatest writers–from Coleridge’s albatross in “The Ancient Mariner” to Poe’s raven.A sampling of the bird lore you’ll find inside:Benjamin Franklin didn’t want the bald eagle on our National Seal because of its “bad moral character,” (it steals from other birds); he lobbied for the turkey instead.Chaffinches, whose Latin name means “unmarried,” are called “bachelor birds” because they congregate in flocks of one gender.Since mockingbirds mimic speech, some Native American tribes fed mockingbird hearts to their children, believing it helped them learn language.A group of starlings is called a murmuration because they chatter so when they roost in the thousands.Organized alphabetically, each of these bird tales is accompanied by a two-color line drawing. Dip into 100 Birds and you’ll never look at a sparrow, an ostrich, or a wren in quite the same way. |
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100 Easy-To-Grow Native Plants: For American Gardens in Temperate Zones $0.99 Used – An illustrated guide to 100 plants native to temperate North America, including profiles, suggested pairings, information on propagation, a guide by region, sources and index. |
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100 Easy-To-Grow Native Plants: For American Gardens in Temperate Zones $39.99 New – An illustrated guide to 100 plants native to temperate North America, including profiles, suggested pairings, information on propagation, a guide by region, sources and index. |
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100 Easy-To-Grow Native Plants: For American Gardens in Temperate Zones $3.23 New – An illustrated guide to 100 plants native to temperate North America, including profiles, suggested pairings, information on propagation, a guide by region, sources and index. |
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100 Easy-To-Grow Native Plants; For American Gardens in Temperate Zones $126.36 An illustrated guide to 100 plants native to temperate North America, including profiles, suggested pairings, information on propagation, a guide by region, sources and index. |
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100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants: For American Gardens in Temperate Zones $22.95 As we see exotic plants becoming “invasive exotics,” gardeners are seeking native plants for their gardens. Plants that withstand regional conditions and weather patterns deliver a hardier garden and require less maintenance.A pioneering book when first published in 1999, this revised edition is a classic reference that meets the requirements of a changing, tougher landscape. Lorraine Johnson provides a fail-safe guide to beautiful low-maintenance plants native to many regions of the United States. The features include:Handy profiles of each native plantMaintenance requirementsCreative suggestions for plant pairingsPropagation and cultivation tipsIndex of plants by botanical nameEthical guidelines for gardenersUpdated list of sources.Especially useful are the quick-reference charts that show plants grouped by region, habitat and conditions, for example plants that tolerate dry soil in shade and plants that attract butterflies. A color photograph of each plant makes it easy to compare options and choose the right plant. |
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100 Famous Americans Who Changed American History $59.31 Now, from the publishers of The World Almanac, comes an exciting, wide ranging look at Americans who have had the most profound impact on the shape of American history–including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. Each title in the People Who Changed American History series contains capsule biographics that mix the essential accomplishments of their subjects with fascinating, lesser known details. Arranged chronologically and covering all aspects of American history, these concise entries will appeal to readers who want a sweeping view of American history, as well as those who want to quickly get the key facts about an important figure. Each title also contains an index with cross references and a special section with a trivia quiz and suggested projects. |
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100 Famous Americans Who Changed History $8.55 Used – Now, from the publishers of The World Almanac, comes an exciting, wide ranging look at Americans who have had the most profound impact on the shape of American history–including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. Each title in the People Who Changed American History series contains capsule biographics that mix the essential accomplishments of their subjects with fascinating, lesser known details. Arranged chronologically and covering all aspects of American hist |
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