Introduction: Native Americans’ Urban Frontiers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Colin Calloway
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Indigenous Leadership ◽  
Indirect Contact ◽  
Indian People ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Society ◽  
American Cities

This chapter introduces the phenomenon of Indian people being present in early American cities, contrary to popular assumptions and academic depictions of them as an anomaly in urban life. It argues that early American cities constituted a “frontier” for Indian people who went there, where they experienced close contact with colonists and indirect contact with the Atlantic world. The chapter considers early Native American travel across the Atlantic, to London in particular, as well as varieties of Indigenous leadership as context for understanding the roles of those who were designated chiefs in the cities. It also discusses the nature and limitations of the sources, and the insights into early American society provided by Indigenous comments and critiques.

scholarly journals Contestation of Discourse on Alcoholism among Native Americans in Joy Harjo’s The Reckoning (2002)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Shofi Mahmudah Budi Utami
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Joy Harjo ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
The Subject ◽  
American Society

This study aims at revealing how the discursive practices and the discourse on alcoholism in the Native Americans is produced and contested in a short story entitled The Reckoning by Joy Harjo. The problem in this study is approached by Foucauldian concept of discourse production procedure. The method applied here is the Foucauldian discourse analysis by examining the problem through the process of formation including external and internal exclusion. Central to the analysis is that alcoholism is produced as taboo through the mother character which limits the general understanding about alcoholism; hence this discourse is possible to produce by the subject whose credentials can validate the truth. This discourse is also affirmed by the contextual prohibition which authoritatively can state the truth about alcoholism. This is further contested in the current society of how being an alcoholic would be considered as a non-native American way of life. The result indicates that alcoholism among Native American society becomes the discourse within which constraints produce considerable barriers to expose or address to this topic

“Per noi emigrati”: Nostalgia in the Reception of Puccini's La fanciulla del West in New York City's Italian-Language Newspapers

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
KUNIO HARA
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Native American ◽  
American West ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Early American ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Many

AbstractThe premiere of Puccini's La fanciulla del West at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910 inspired enthusiastic reactions from the New York audience. However, as demonstrated by Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis's 2005 study, Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of “The Girl of the Golden West,” the critical reception of the work highlighted the Italian composer's inability to measure up to the critics’ preconceived notions about the American West. Among the many perceived oddities of the opera was the character of Jake Wallace, a “wandering camp minstrel,” who appeared in an unconventional form of blackface and sang an aria based on a transcription of a Native American song. This essay reexamines the early American reception of La fanciulla by analyzing the coverage of the opera in Italian-language newspapers published in New York. Articles in these periodicals suggest that Jake's nostalgic song (canto nostalgico) and the sentiment of homesickness that it projected played a central role in the positive reception of the work among their readers. Acknowledging such a reaction to the opera reminds us of the difficulty of ascribing a uniformly “American” reception to any work. It also uncovers an unexpected way in which Puccini and his collaborators promoted the opera to a particular segment of the American society.

Toward an Indigenous Model of Native American Ministry within the Assemblies of God

Pneuma ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Joseph Saggio
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Assemblies Of God ◽  
Indigenous Leadership ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Fait Accompli

AbstractThis article chronicles the historical missiological development of the Assemblies of God USA with regard to Native American ministry from its early roots characterized primarily by a missions-driven model toward the emergence of a more indigenous-driven model that first became evident in the late 1940s. Although the missions-driven model is far from being a fait accompli, the vision of far-sighted missionaries and indigenous leadership has brought enormous progress since the early twentieth century. This article examines the early development of indigenous ministry from 1950 to 1987 and then reviews developments from 1988 up to the present time. The final section of the article focuses specifically on ongoing challenges to developing indigenous ministry among Native Americans.

Turks and Indians on the Margins of Europe

Belleten ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 65 (242) ◽  
pp. 243-256
Author(s):  
William O'reılly
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New World ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
World Society ◽  
Early American ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Target Community ◽  
The Creation ◽  
American Society ◽  
Pictorial Representations

Knowledge of emerging New World settlements and opportunities was quick to diffuse from the western seaboard of Europe to central and eastern parts of the continent. This article contends that cultural knowledge and perceptions were ethnically filtered by Europeans desirous to include new knowledge in existing paradigms. Diverse aspects of New World society appealed to different communities and news and information was consciously manipulated and re-presented, using stock cliches, to be made more palatable to the target community. Blanket verbal and pictorial representations of 'America' and 'Europe' synthetically emerged to feed the appetite for understanding the New World. It is further suggested that the transfer of cultural cliches from Turk to Native American highlight the complex origins of European perceptions of America. These images had substantial effects on the creation of early American society.

The Towns and Cities of Early America

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
Colin Calloway
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Early America ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Cities

The chapter counters the idea that cities in North America were a European invention or import by briefly surveying pre-Columbian cities and key Native American towns after contact, when many Indigenous communities still matched some colonial towns in size and significance. It notes that Indians played important roles in the development of early American cities, which depended on trade networks reaching into the interior as well as across the Atlantic. The chapter also describes the key cities visited by Indian delegates in the book to convey an impression of their size, character, and changes and to provide backdrop for the Indians’ experiences there.

Law and Identity: Negotiating Meaning in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris A. Fred
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
American Society ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Implementation Stage

AbstractThe enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in 1990 represented the culmination of a long process of negotiation and ultimate compromise between representatives of Native American tribes and American museums. This paper focuses on the initial implementation stage of NAGPRA. That stage reveals that interaction between the two sides has entailed (and continues to entail) negotiations not only concerning the disposition of specific Native American cultural objects but also equally important concerning the professional identities of Native Americans and museum professionals, respectively. Viewed in this way, NAGPRA's post-enactment process is seen to illustrate the various functions of law (both symbolic and concrete) in maintaining the social and ideological dialectic of American society.

scholarly journals THE NARRATIVE WORLD OF NATIVE AMERICANS SEEN FROM THE ADAPTATION OF OHIYESA IN BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE

LITERA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachmat Nurcahyo
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Cultural Assimilation ◽  
American Government ◽  
Native American Culture ◽  
Charles Eastman ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
American Society ◽  
Wounded Knee

Native American narratives are often presented through media presenting native American figures. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (BMHWK) is a non-fiction history-based film that tells the fate of Native Americans against white colonialism. The key figure in the film, Ohiyesa, is an adaptation of Native American figures from the The Indian Boyhood (TIB) written by Charles Eastman. This article reveals the meaning of the character Ohiyesa in the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. This research used an adaptation approach. Data obtained from the exploration of the figure of Ohiyesa in TIB and BMHWK. Data analysis was performed by conducting a comparative analysis of Ohiyesa at TIB and BMHWK. The results of the analysis show: (1) Ohiyesa character was adapted and dominantly raised by the name of Charles Eastman, (2) this character revealed the memory of deprivation of Native American culture, (3) the character functioned as an assimilation agent, and voiced the concept of cultural assimilation by white Americans. Ohiyesa was made an assimilation agent by the American government. With a strong presentation through his success through his role as a doctor and lobbyist, the American government offers a new life expectancy to American society, which is a cultural assimilation. Ohiyesa has become a symbol of the helplessness and evaluation of the future of Native Americans.Keywords: ohiyesa, native American, narrative, symbol of the helplessness,DUNIA NARATIF PRIBUMI AMERIKA DILIHAT DARI ADAPTASI OHIYESA DALAM BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEEAbstrakNarasi terkait pribumi Amerika sering dimainkan melalui media yang menyuguhkan tokoh pribumi Amerika. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (BMHWK) merupakan film berbasis buku historical non fiction yang menceritakan nasib pribumi Amerika melawan kolonialisasi kulit putih. Tokoh kunci dalam film tersebut, Ohiyesa, merupakan adaptasi tokoh pribumi Amerika dari teks The Indian Boyhood (TIB) karya Charles Eastman. Artikel ini mengungkap pemaknaan terhadap tokoh Ohiyesa dalam film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan adaptasi. Data didapatkan dari eksplorasi tokoh Ohiyesa dalam TIB dan BMHWK. Analisis data dilakukan dengan membandingkan Ohiyesa dalam TIB and BMHWK. Hasil analisis menunjukan bahwa: (1) Karakter Ohiyesa diadaptasi dan secara dominan dimunculkan dengan nama Charles Eastman, (2) Karakter ini mengungkap mengungkap memori perampasan budaya pribumi Amerika, (3) karakter tersebut difungsikan sebagai agen asimilasi, dan menyuarakan konsep asimilasi budaya oleh kulit putih Amerika. Ohiyesa dijadikan agen asimilasi oleh pemerintah Amerika. Dengan pemaparan kuat melalui keberhasilan dia melalui perannya sebagai dokter sekailgus pelobi parlemen, pemerintah Amerika menawarkan harapan hidup baru kepada pribumi Amerika, yaitu sebuah asimilasi budaya. Ohiyesa telah menjadi simbol dari ketakberdayaan dan gambaran masa depan pribumi Amerika.Kata kunci: Ohiyesa, pribumi Amerika, narasi, simbol ketakberdayaan

scholarly journals Indigeneity and Early American Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Newman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Early American Literature ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Early American ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The Relationship

Indigeneity is the abstract noun form of “indigenous,” defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “Born or produced naturally in a land or region”; in conventional usage, it refers primarily to “aboriginal inhabitants or natural products.” Indigeneity has a conceptually complex relationship to American literary history before 1830, insofar as, for most of the history of the field, “early American literature” has predominately referred to works written in European languages, scripts, and genres, produced by peoples of European origin and their descendants. Within this framework, until Native Americans began adopting and adapting these languages, scripts, and genres for their own use, there were no literary works that might be simultaneously characterized as “indigenous” and “early American.” Four conceptualizations of the relationship between indigeneity and early American literature provide a basis for this history and its historiography. Three of these pertain to cultural works produced at least in part by Native Americans: these are (1) written representations of Native American spoken performances, or “oral literature”; (2) writings that register various degrees of participation in literacy practices by Native American converts to Christianity; and (3) cultural works that employ non-alphabetic indigenous sign-systems, or “indigenous literacies.” These formulations variously challenge conventional ideas about literature and related terms such as authorship and writing; in the case of the Christian Indians, they can also challenge notions of indigeneity. A fourth conceptualization of the relationship between indigeneity and early American literature is premised on narrow definitions of these seemingly antithetical terms: it pertains to the aesthetic project of some settler-colonial authors who hoped to connect their prose and verse works to the domestic landscape, to assert their cultural independence from England, and to enact the replacement of Native American cultural traditions with their own.

scholarly journals Sherman Alexie’s Literary Works as Native American Social Realistic Projections

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Md. Amir Hossain ◽  
S.M. Abu Nayem Sarker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Society

This paper aims to look at the social realistic issues in the context of Sherman Alexie’s literary works. Alexie is one of the postmodern authors in the United States of America. He is very popular among his Native American society as well as community for representing social reality of his age. This paper is divided into several sections; each section shows a benchmark of the 21st century Social Picture of the Native Americans in the light of Alexian Literary Works. It also scrutinizes stories, and novels with a view to highlighting a faithful picture of Native Americans in the light of everyday social issues, including poverty, alcoholism, unhealthiness, racism, and suicidal act. Basically, the main part of my paper deals with social problems of Native Americans in the United States of America as depicted in Alexie’s literary works. It highlights an awareness of the Native Americans so as to keep themselves aloof from drug addiction, poverty, depression, and psychological trauma. Here I have also applied the critical theory of Social Realism with a view to unveiling a subtle literary affinity with Alexie’s works. In this study, I would like to show the significance of this study, and research methodology as well.

Native Americans in the Pennsylvania School Curriculum

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Minderhout ◽  
Andrea Frantz
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
The State ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Red Power ◽  
American Society ◽  
Native American Group ◽  
The 1960S

In the 2000 U. S. Census, 18,348 people in Pennsylvania indicated that they were Native Americans, an increase of nearly 50% since 1990; another 34,302 identified themselves as "part-Indian." These numbers likely reflect a trend towards a greater acceptance of Native American status in the United States generally and in Pennsylvania in particular. This trend has been going on since the 1960s with the rise of the Red Power movement, and a changing American society that increasingly saw Native Americans as environmentally friendly and historically wronged. Today, in Pennsylvania, hardly a weekend goes by without a powwow or a tribal gathering somewhere in the state. In our on-going research with Pennsylvania's Native Americans since 2004, we have found them to be both proud of their identity and heritage and increasingly frustrated with the lack of recognition they receive from the state and the larger, non-Indian population. Pennsylvania is one of very few states that neither contains a reservation nor officially recognizes any Native American group. No university-level Native American cultural center or studies program exists within the state, and no state agency is dedicated to the issues and concerns of Native Americans. This is ironic because the first two hundred years of European history in Pennsylvania is one of extensive interaction, cooperation and eventually conflict with Native Americans. But, as will be seen in this paper, Native Americans have largely disappeared from the state history books.

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