Ishi and the Wood Ducks, Part 2, or Ishi, the “Urban” Indian1

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman K. Denzin
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Wood Ducks ◽  
Urban Indian

“Ishi and the Wood Ducks, Part 2, or Ishi, The ‘Urban’” Indian” is the first play in a five-play cycle, which dramatizes the events surrounding the life and death of a tribal man named Ishi who was immortalized in Theodora Kroeber’s (1961/1989) best-selling Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.

This Land Was Made for … : (Re)Appearing Black/Brown Female Corporeality, Life, and Death

Hypatia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-203
Author(s):  
Esme G. Murdock
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The North ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
Female Corporeality ◽  
Brown Bodies

Lands and bodies are often conceptualized as exhaustible objects and property within settler-colonial and neoliberal ideologies. These conceptualizations lead to underdevelopment of understandings of lands and bodies that fall outside of these ascriptions, and also attempt to actively obscure the pervasive ways in which settler colonialism violently reinscribes itself on the North American landscape through the murder and disappearance of Black and Brown women's bodies. In this article, I will argue that the continual murder and disappearance of Black and Brown women in North America facilitate the successful functioning of ongoing settler-colonial systems and projects. This violence creates and reinforces the functionality of Black/Brown bodies as the territory upon which settler identity and futurity gains traction, indeed, requires.

Band reporting probabilities of mallards, American black ducks, and wood ducks in eastern North America

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela R. Garrettson ◽  
Robert V. Raftovich ◽  
James E. Hines ◽  
Guthrie S. Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Wood Ducks ◽  
American Black

The American Wake of Ireland: Symbolic Death Ritual

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Metress
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Social System ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Ritual ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Insight Into

Knowledge of a group's death customs can provide insight into their social system. The wake and funeral of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland have been said to provide the most dramatic revelation of community life during those times. In the early days of Irish emigration when the journey to North America was considered to be a final separation, Irish society developed an institution known as the American wake. Among other things, it provided a mechanism for ventilating the grief associated with this special type of bereavement. This article examines the similarities between the American wake and a wake for the dead and is concerned with how the emigrant wake reflected the Irish view of life and death.

Friends in Life and Death

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Vann ◽  
David Eversley
Keyword(s):  
Life And Death
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