Call for Change : The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality /

"For too many years, the academic discipline of history has ignored American Indians or lacked the kind of open-minded thinking necessary to truly understand them. Most historians remain oriented toward the American experience at the expense of the Native experience. As a result, both the statu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fixico, Donald Lee, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Authors.
Indians of North America > Historiography.
Indian philosophy.
Indian philosophy > North America.
North America.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The complexity of American Indian history
  • Native ethos of "seeing" and a natural democracy
  • The first dimension of Indian-white relations
  • The second dimension of interacting Indian-white relations
  • The third dimension of physical and metaphysical reality
  • A cross-cultural bridge of understanding
  • Oral tradition and language
  • Power of earth and woman
  • Coming full circle.

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