By Duane Champagne University of California Los Angeles
ISBN-10: 0761990585
ISBN-13: 9780761990581
Duane Champagne has assembled a quantity of most sensible scholarship reflecting the complexity and variety of local American cultural existence. Introductions to every topical part supply historical past and built-in analyses of the problems handy. The informative and significant stories that stick to supply studies and views from a number of local settings. themes comprise identification, gender, the powwow, mass media, wellbeing and fitness and environmental matters. This e-book and its significant other quantity, modern local American Political concerns, edited through Troy R. Johnson, are excellent educating instruments for teachers in local American stories, ethnic experiences, and anthropology, and demanding assets for someone operating in or with local groups.
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60 On the other hand, positive stereotyping might account for some nonIndians' and mixedheritage peoples' decision to become Indians. " Positive imagery of Indians in the 1960s and 1970s probably accounts in part for the dramatic increase in the numbers of Indians on the 1980 census. " 62 For example, in areas of the United States where Indians and nonIndians clash over treaty hunting and fishing rights, and other economic resources, stereotypes of Indians are more negative. " 63 Indeed, those who have vested economic and social interest in images of Indians as inferior beings rarely will acknowledge Indians as equals.
Children are, however, less likely to become upset and confused by their mixed ancestry if both parents and the extended families have pride in themselves and their cultures and if both have equal social status within the family unit. 25 5. The parents may be bicultural. They appear to live like whites during the week when they work and socialize with nonIndians, and they resemble Indians on weekends or at other times when they attend powwows, sun dances, tribal activities, or other Indian social and familial functions.
Either through political debate or by the Page 9 lifeways or life style they choose to follow, many Native Americans negotiate the meaning and place of traditional and Western cultural elements within their communities. In any particular group, these discussions and actions take a variety of paths. Because tribes have a very different cultural tradition and relatively unique colonial experience, the solutions that each settles upon are varied and community specific. For example, the Navajo Nation adopted an Americanstyle court system in the early 1960s.
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