Rostkowski Conversations with Remarkable Native Americans

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4176-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Native Traces

Entertaining and enlightening interviews with some of today’s most important Native Americans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rostkowski, Joëlle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE. Tragic wisdom and survivance
DEBORAH L. MADSEN

INTRODUCTION. From forgotten Americans to Indigenous rights
JOËLLE ROSTKOWSKI

PROLOGUE. Conversation with Gerald Vizenor, series editor, poet, novelist, and art critic

1. N. Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, painter, and UNESCO Artist for Peace

2. Suzan Harjo, policy advocate, journalist, essayist, and poet

3. Richard West, lawyer and founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian

4. Emil Her Many Horses, curator, National Museum of the American Indian

5. Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska

6. Veronica Tiller, historian, consultant, and writer

7. Erma Vizenor, tribal chair, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota

8. Louisita Warren, elder of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico

9. Tony Abeyta, painter and sculptor

10. David Bradley, painter and sculptor

11. Darren Vigil Gray, painter and musician

12. E. Jill Momaday, actress, model, and former chief of protocol, state of New Mexico

13. Rulan Tangen, dancer and choreographer

14. Robert Tim Coulter, lawyer, founder, and director of the Indian Law Resource Center

15. Kenneth Deer, journalist, educator, and UN Indigenous representative

16. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

EPILOGUE. In memory of Deskaheh

NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF PEOPLE
GENERAL INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Joëlle Rostkowski is an ethnohistorian who teaches at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences in Paris. She is also a consultant at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Her books include The Incomplete Conversion: North American Indians and Christianity and Native American Renaissance: A Century of Reconquests, winner of the 2002 French Academy History Prize.