We will always be here : native peoples on living and thriving in the South /
Adding to the growing scholarship on Native history in the American South, Denise Bates here gathers first-hand views from current tribal leaders and activists who are on the front lines of modern debates over identity and sovereignty.
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| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2016]
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| Series: | Other southerners.
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Table of Contents:
- Growing up Indian in a southern context
- The ballad of the Choctawhatchee River: ripples from our past / Nanette Sconiers Pupalaikis
- Muscogee lifeways in Central Georgia / Stan Cartwright
- My family's legacy / Patricia Easterwood
- Hiding my Indian identity / Wanda Light Tully
- Growing up Mowa Choctaw / Framon Weaver
- The sacrifices we made for our education / Kenneth Adams
- Showdown at Bayou Pointe-Aux-Chien / Charles "Chuckie" Verdin
- Racism in New Brockton, Alabama / Nancy Wright Carnley
- Poarch Creek Family's educational journey over three generations / Otha, Marie, Pauline, Nathan, Karla, and Kaci Martin
- We will forever remain Coushatta and we will always be here / Ernest Sickey
- The politics of history and identity
- A rebirth on the Chowan / Marvin T. Jones
- Speaking for my ancestors / Shoshone Peguese-Elmardi
- From Cherokee to Chowanoke: discovering the North Carolina Algonquians / Lars Adams
- The Chowanoke Indian resurgence / Doug Patterson
- Jamestown 2007: a Native American perspective / Kenneth Adams
- Eastern creeks and the persistence of identity / Hodalee Scott Sewell
- To be or not to be a "wannabe" / Tony Mack McClure
- Jim Crowfeather in Indian country / Cedric Sunray
- Cultural grounding
- In my mother's hands / Brooke Bauer
- Nerataya: spirit of the deer and passing the gifts of the Tunica-Biloxi / Donna Pierite, Jean-Luc Pierite, and Elisabeth Pierite-Mora
- Reawakening our warrior tradition / Harold Comby
- Te-lah-nay's wall / Tom Hendrix
- In the eye of Isaac / Michael T. Mayheart Dardar
- Being the Indians we were made to be / Marcus Briggs-Cloud
- Generations within the circle / Marvin "Marty" Richardson
- Putting the "community" back into my Jena Choctaw community / Dana Chapman Masters
- Finding my sense of place in my ancestral homeland / Robert Jumper
- Native people should tell their own stories / Robert Caldwell
- Vpuecetv (to dream): my journey to becoming tribal royalty / Megan Young
- At war with herself: artistic reflections of culture and identity / Jessica Osceola
- Moving forward
- A reflection on a lifetime of leadership / Ernest Sickey
- Initiating intertribal efforts in Louisiana / Jeanette Alcon
- The oil companies stole our land / Charles "Chuckie" Verdin
- Finishing what I started / Framon Weaver
- Looking south / Michael T. Mayheart Dardar
- Inauguration speech of Phyliss J. Anderson, first woman chief of the Mississippi Choctaw
- Building an entrepreneurial spirit within tribal nations / David Sickey
- Seeking prosperity and self-determination / Stephanie Bryan
- Defining moments / Malinda Maynor Lowery
- Working toward a healthy future for the Cherokee Nation / Ahli-Sha Stephens
- Native youth in agriculture / Elliott Nichols.