Denise E. Bates

Basket Diplomacy (eBook, ePUB)

Leadership, Alliance-Building, and Resilience among the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, 1884-1984

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Before the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana became one of the state's top private employers-with its vast landholdings and economic enterprises-they lived well below the poverty line and lacked any clear legal status. After settling in the Bayou Blue in 1884, they forged friendships with their neighbors, sparked local tourism, and struck strategic alliances with civic and business leaders, aid groups, legislators, and other tribes. Coushattas also engaged the public with stories about the tribe's culture, history, and economic interests that intersected with the larger community, all while battling legal marginalization exacerbated by inconsistent government reports regarding their citizenship, treaty status, and eligibility for federal Indian services. Well into the twentieth century, the tribe had to overcome several major hurdles, including lobbying the Louisiana legislature to pass the state's first tribal recognition resolution (1972), convincing the Department of the Interior to formally acknowledge the Coushatta Tribe through administrative channels (1973), and engaging in an effort to acquire land and build infrastructure.Basket Diplomacy demonstrates how the Coushatta community worked together-each generation laying a foundation for the next-and how they leveraged opportunities so that existing and newly acquired knowledge, timing, and skill worked in tandem.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496218391
• Artikelnr.: 60865112

Autorenporträt

Denise E. Bates is an associate dean and a professor of leadership and interdisciplinary studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South and editor of We Will Always Be Here: Native Peoples on Living and Thriving in the South.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
Chapter 1. “Don’t Forget Your Gumbo Bowl”: Building a Life at Bayou Blue  
 
Chapter 2. Refusing to Be Overlooked: Tribal Leadership and the
Introduction of Federal Indian Services, 1913–1951    
Chapter 3. Abandoned, Not Terminated: The Aftermath and Response to the
Unilateral Withdrawal of Federal Services, 1951–1962    
Chapter 4. Poor but Not Hopeless: Relentless Advocacy Efforts and the
Opening of the First Tribal Enterprise, 1962–1969    
Chapter 5. An Unusual Road to Recognition: Uncovering Administrative
Oversights and Drawing Louisiana into Indian Affairs, 1969–1973    
Chapter 6. Controlling the Conversation: Reshaping the Narrative and
Building a Tribal Nation, 1973–1984    
Epilogue, by Chairman David Sickey    
Appendix    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index