ISBN
0520209850; 0520219872; 9780520219878
Statement of Responsibility
Ronald Niezen ; with contributions by Manley Begay, Jr. ... [et al.].
Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press
Physical Description
xviii, 256 p. : ill., ports. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The Conquest of Souls -- The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 -- Epidemics and the "Black Robes" of New France -- Puritans and "Praying Indians" in New England -- Prelude to Nation Building -- The Pequots' Conversion to Christianity / Kim Burgess -- 3. Learning to Forget -- Enlightenment and Evolutionism -- The Origins of the Indian Residential School -- Residential Education in Canada -- The Hidden Catastrophe -- The Way of the DineĢ Still Sustains Us / Manley Begay, Jr. -- 4. Medical Evangelism -- Contrasting Styles of Healing -- Mission Programs, Federal Intervention, and Regional Autonomy -- Sorrow and Forgetting -- Hearing Voices: Gwich'in Athabaskan Perceptions of Spirit Invasion and Recovery / Phyllis Fast -- 5. The Politics of Repression -- The Ghost Dance Religion and the Suppression of Prophecy -- The Potlatch Laws -- The Peyote Religion and Its Enemies -- Transgressions of Sacred Space -- Native Spiritual Traditions and the Tribal State: The Oklahoma Choctaws in the Late Twentieth Century / Valerie Long Lambert -- 6. The Collectors -- Ethnological Collecting -- Desecration and the Growth of Museums -- Bones and Spirits -- Repatriation -- Dialogue or Diatribe? Indians and Archaeologists in the Post-NAGPRA Era / Michael Wilcox -- 7. Apostles of the New Age -- Wild Men of Ideas -- The Oral and the Written -- Invention and Authenticity -- Suffering and Redemption -- Medicine Wheelers and Dealers / Bernard C. Perley -- 8. Conclusions.
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