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Gambling and Survival in Native North America /

"Gambling and Survival in Native North America is a wideranging book that shows how Native Americans have become active participants in their own survival despite the popular belief that Indian tribes, as "conquered peoples," have been rendered helpless for over a century. Working wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pasquaretta, Paul, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pequots
  • "Could yee blame us for revenging so cruell a murder?": A dialogic critique of the Pequot war narratives
  • "Lost in the deep. Voiceless obscurity": The Pequots as metaphor in Catharina Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie
  • Crossbloods
  • Land, literacy, and the Lord: Pequot tribal advocacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • Fashioning a tribal utopia: Pequot self-representation in the contemporary period
  • Gamblers
  • On the "Indianness" of Bingo: Gambling and the Native American community
  • Contesting the evil gambler: Gambling, choice, and survival in Native American Indian literature.