Crafting an Indigenous Nation (eBook)

Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era

Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote (Autor)

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2019
162 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4367-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, Tone-Pah-Hote argues that their creation and exchange were as significant to the expression of Indigenous identity and sovereignty as formal political engagement and policymaking. These cultural forms, she argues, were sites of contestation as well as affirmation, as Kiowa people used them to confront external pressures, express national identity, and wrestle with changing gender roles and representations. Combatting a tendency to view Indigenous cultural production primarily in terms of resistance to settler-colonialism, Tone-Pah-Hote expands existing work on Kiowa culture by focusing on acts of creation and material objects that mattered as much for the nation's internal and familial relationships as for relations with those outside the tribe. In the end, she finds that during a time of political struggle and cultural dislocation at the turn of the twentieth century, the community's performative and expressive acts had much to do with the persistence, survival, and adaptation of the Kiowa nation.

Autor

Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote (Kiowa) is assistant professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 15 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: American Indian history in Oklahoma • American Indian men • American Indian nationhood • American Indian performance • American Indians in the Twentieth Century • American Indian women • fairs and expositions in Oklahoma • Family and kinship • Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida • gender in American Indian societies • intertribal movements • Kiowa beadwork • Kiowa Expressive Culture, American Indian identity • Kiowa History, The Kiowa Six • Kiowa painting • Kiowa visual culture • ledger drawing • powwow princesses • powwow regalia in the Southern Plains • powwows in Oklahoma • Southern Plains silver work • tourism in Indian Country • war and fancy dancing
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4367-7 / 1469643677
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4367-0 / 9781469643670