Chinook Resilience: Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River (Indigenous Confluences)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295742267 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fisher, Margaret L. Daehnke also offers a deeply insightful meditation on contending forms of personhood and social power, of ethnological assumptions and government bureaucracies, and the Indigenous constitution of heritage."James F. Brooks, Professor of History & Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara . Hamilton Chair of History, The College of William and Mary"Chinook Resilience shows the profound effects colonialism has had on contemporary Chinook affairs and howintentional or notcolonialism has shaped the meanings of 'heritage' as expressed in the public arena and in the tribe itself."Robert Boyd, coeditor of Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia"Chinook Resilience is much more than a story of one peoples' survivancealthough it is that, and one powerfully rendered. "A valuable example of collaborative research that is intellectually rigorous and grounded in academic debate bu
Jon D. Daehnke is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Chinook Indian Nationwhose ancestors lived along both shores of the lower Columbia River, as well as north and south along the Pacific coast at the river's mouthcontinue to reside near traditional lands. This lived and embodied enactment of heritage, one steeped in reciprocity and protocol rather than documentation and preservation of material objects, offers a tribally relevant, forward-looking, and decolonized approach for the cultural resilience and survival of the Chinook Indian Nation, even in the face of federal nonrecognition.. Because of its nonrecognized status, the Chinook Indian Nation often faces challenges in its efforts to claim and control cultural heritage and its own history and to assert a right to place on the Columbia River.Chinook Resilience is a collaborative ethnography of how the Chinook Indian