| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Series |
Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building |
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Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.
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| Contents |
Welcome to Skaru're -- Tuscarora : fifty years later -- Tuscaroras in North Carolina : peace, war, and exodus -- Policies of accommodation -- Ethnostress : selves lost and found -- Siege, resistance, and renewal -- Family : household, clan, and the woman's line -- Governance : nation, community, and confederacy -- Preserving the cycle of life |
| Summary |
This book presents the history of the small Iroquois Indian reservation community just north of Niagara Falls in western New York. The Tuscaroras consider themselves to be a sovereign nation, independent of the United States and the State of New York. They have preserved a system of social organization and ideal public values, along with the Tonawanda Seneca and the Onondagas that retains matrilineal clans, and a Council of Chiefs nominated by the clan matrons. Over the course of their existence, however, the Tuscarora have faced many struggles. Stemming from over sixty years of research, the author follows their story of overcoming war and loss of population, migration from North Carolina in the 1700s, the emotional trauma and social disorders resulting from discrimination and abusive conditions in residential boarding schools, and successful adaption to urban industrial society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tuscarora Indians -- Social life and customs
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Tuscarora Indians -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Tuscarora Indians
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012000731 |
| ISBN |
9781438444314 |
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1438444311 |
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