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Author:
Usner, Daniel H.
Title:
Indian work : language and livelihood in Native American history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
Publisher:
Harvard University Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
202 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Indians of North America--Economic conditions
Indians of North America--Employment
Indians of North America--Public opinion
Whites--Relations with Indians.
Public opinion--United States.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Social policy
United States--Economic policy
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-187) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.
ISBN:
0674033493 (alk. paper)
9780674033498 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)261176064
LCCN:
2008042981
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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