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Chargement... Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indianspar Rita Kohn
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Forty-one individuals, from seventeen different tribes, representing eleven nations, tell their stories in Always a People. As descendants of people who shaped the history of the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, the narrators herein continue to feel closely bound to the land from which most of them have been forcibly removed. The eleven nations represented in this volume are the Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware, Shawnee, Peoria, Oneida, Ottawa, Winnebago, Sac and Fox, Chippewa, and Kickapoo. All of the people interviewed here have a very deep and abiding commitment to their families and speak of great-great grandparents as intimately as they do of their parents. All see themselves as real people who do not fit the stereotypes often associated with ""native Americans."" All speak of the urgency for making room for multiple voices drawn from many traditions. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A number of the people interviewed died before the book was even published, so clearly the editors were wise to start this project when they did; just think of how much more would have been lost if they'd waited even another year! There are hints of information here, but so much is vague, or doesn't make sense without context, or isn't expanded upon, that this book is not as useful as it could have been. Still, I was glad to learn a little bit more about the descendents of people who lived from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes. A tidbit I found particularly interesting: following the War of 1812, the Shawnee were removed from Ohio and split into three bands: the Eastern Shawnees, the Absentee Shawnees (so called because they took no part in the allotment of lands in Kansas) and the Loyal Shawnees (because they supported the Union cause during the Civil War). ( )