Roger Welsch

Embracing Fry Bread (eBook, PDF)

Confessions of a Wannabe

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Produktbeschreibung

When he was out playing Indian, enacting Hollywood-inspired scenarios, it never occurred to the child Roger Welsch that the little girl sitting next to him in school was Indian. A lifetime of learning later, Welsch's enthusiasm is undimmed, if somewhat more enlightened. In Embracing Fry Bread Welsch tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Native American culture, which, beginning in earnest with the study of linguistic practices of the Omaha tribe during a college anthropology course, resulted in his becoming an adopted member and kin of both the Omaha and the Pawnee tribes.

With requisite humility and a healthy dose of humor, Welsch describes his long pilgrimage through Native life, from lessons in the vagaries of "Indian time" and the difficulties of reservation life, to the joy of being allowed to participate in special ceremonies and developing a deep and lasting love of fry bread. Navigating another culture is a complicated task, and Welsch...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Original
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803244924
• Artikelnr.: 37844689

Autorenporträt

Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of more than forty books, including Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales and My Nebraska, both available in Bison Books editions.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. First, a Story
2. Introduction
3. A Beginning
4. Beyond the Handgame
5. History, Long and Short
6. Who Are We?
7. The Call of Curiosity, Keep the Change
8. Enter the Wannabes
9. What's in a Name
10. Who Is "The Indian"?
11. Who Is the Wannabe?
12. The Contrary Lesson of the Prime Directive
13. First Steps
14. The Fix Is Out
15. Indian Wannabes
16. Gottabes
17. Becoming New
18. How It Goes, How It Went
19. The Plot Thickens
20. Why?
21. Gottabes Again
22. The Ways of Foodways
23. Carnivores Forever
24. Another World
25. The Consequences of Incuriosity
26. Symbols and Realities
27. Indian Humor
28. Names and Naming
29. The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger of 1877
30. Names . . . and Names
31. Matters of Faith
32. Deduction/Induction
33. What Is Indian Religion?
34. The Sun Dance
35. The Native Church
36. Inside Native Religion
37. Knowing What We Don't Know
38. What History Teaches Us
39. The Empty Frontier
40. Indians Today
41. Indians as Americans
42. The Land
43. The Real Wonder of It
44. Eloquence
45. From Presumed Inferiority to Rampant Egalitarianism
46. Time
47. Property and Gifts
48. The Gift of Giving
49. The Fabric of Sharing
50. The Spirit of Giving
51. Squaring the Circle
52. So, How Different Are We?
53. What We See
54. Indians and Deeper Truths
55. Conclusions
56. Repositories of Wisdom
57. What's in It for Indians?
58. So You Wannabe a Wannabe?