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Author Usner, Daniel H.

Title Indian work [electronic resource] : language and livelihood in Native American history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Description 202 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674033498 (alk. paper)
0674033493 (alk. paper)

 
    
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