Rosalyn R. Lapier

Invisible Reality (eBook, PDF)

Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

[LaPier's] book refreshingly is tied to her extended family, especially its women, instead of the generalized 'Blackfoot' of most outside ethnographers. Readable in style, [Invisible Reality] conveys the self-respect and confidence that paternalist governance and poverty could not defeat.-A. B. Kehoe, ChoiceRosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people's relationship and mode of interaction with the "invisible reality" of the supernatural world. Religious beliefs provided the Blackfeet with continuity through privations and changing times. The stories they passed to new generations and outsiders reveal the fundamental philosophy of Blackfeet existence, namely the belief that they could alter, change, or control nature to suit their needs and that they were able to do so with the assistance of supernatural allies. The Blackfeet did not believe they had to adapt to nature. They made nature adapt. Their relationship with the supernatural provided the Blackfeet with stability and made predictable the seeming unpredictability of the natural world in which they lived.In Invisible Reality LaPier presents an unconventional, creative, and innovative history that blends extensive archival research, vignettes of family stories, and traditional knowledge learned from elders along with personal reflections on her own journey learning Blackfeet stories. The result is a nuanced look at the history of the Blackfeet and their relationship with the natural world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496202406
• Artikelnr.: 55972202

Autorenporträt

Rosalyn R. LaPier is an associate professor in the environmental studies program at the University of Montana and a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History. She is the coauthor, with David R. M. Beck, of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934  (Nebraska, 2015), winner of the 2016 Robert G. Athearn Award from the Western History Association.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Something Vital Was Missing
1. No Nothing: The Blackfeet Reservation in 1910
2. Invisible Reality: The Blackfeet Universe
3. Visible Reality: The Saokiotapi
4. Closed Season: The Blackfeet Winter
5. Opened Season: The Blackfeet Summer
6. Storytakers: Ethnographers Visit the Blackfeet
7. All That Remain: From the Prairies to the Atomic Age
Epilogue: And the Dogs Have Separated
Notes
Bibliography
Index