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The Magic Children

Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race

By: Roger Echo-Hawk

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The Magic Children

Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race

By: Roger Echo-Hawk

One day at the end of the twentieth century, Roger Echo-Hawk decided to give up being an Indian. After becoming an American Indian historian, he started to question our widespread reliance on a concept of race that the academy had long-since discredited, and embarked on a personal and professional journey to giving up race himself. This passionate book offers a powerful meditation on racialism and a manifesto for creating a world without it. Echo-Hawk examines personal identity, social movements, and policy—NAGPRA, Indian law, Red Pride, indigenous archaeology—showing how they rely on race and how they should move beyond it.

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Routledge

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1315417995

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9781315417998

The Magic Children

Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race

By: Roger Echo-Hawk

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Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race

By: Roger Echo-Hawk

This provocative book confronts the fallacy of race and American Indian racialism, and challenges us to move American culture, policy, and scholarship beyond race.

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177

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Routledge

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1315418002

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9781315418001

Embracing Fry Bread

Confessions of a Wannabe

By: Roger L. Welsch

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Embracing Fry Bread

Confessions of a Wannabe

By: Roger L. Welsch

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 shares his mistakes and successes with engaging candor. Through his serendipitous wanderings, he finds that the more he learns about Native culture the more he learns about himself—and about a way of life whose allure offers true insight into indigenous America.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803244924

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9780803244924

The Reluctant Pilgrim

A Skeptic's Journey Into Native Mysteries

By: Roger L. Welsch

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The Reluctant Pilgrim

A Skeptic's Journey Into Native Mysteries

By: Roger L. Welsch

Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, “like the sun and moon.” According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. “I make my request of the stones and they are my intercessors,” Brave Buffalo explained. Moments later, another friend appeared at Welsch’s door bearing yet another unusual gift: a perfectly round white stone found on top of a mesa in Colorado. So began Welsch’s lesson from stones, gifts that always presented themselves unexpectedly: during a walk, set aside in an antique store, and in the mail from complete strangers. The Reluctant Pilgrim shares a skeptic’s spiritual journey from his Lutheran upbringing to the Native sensibilities of his adoptive families in both the Omaha and Pawnee tribes. Beginning with those round stones, increasing encounters during his life prompted Welsch to confront a new way of learning and teaching as he was drawn inexorably into another world. Confronting mainstream contemporary culture’s tendency to dismiss the magical, mystical, and unexplained, Welsch shares his personal experiences and celebrates the fact that even in our scientific world, “Something Is Going On,” just beyond our ken.

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296

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803274270

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9780803274273

American Indians in U.S. History

By: Roger L. Nichols

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American Indians in U.S. History

By: Roger L. Nichols

Originally published in hardcover in 2003.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806135786

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9780806135786

Touching the Fire

Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales

By: Roger L. Welsch

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Touching the Fire

Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales

By: Roger L. Welsch

The Turtle Creek band of the fictional Nehawka Indians wages a battle for the return of their sacred Sky Bundle, a medicine pouch containing artifacts. It reposes under glass in an eastern museum at the beginning of Touching the Fire. Seven interlinked stories, beginning with a court battle in the year 2001 and going far back in time to the origin of the Bundle and the first Nehawka village on the Great Plains, reveal the richness and depth of Indian cultural heritage. Touching the Fire is multilayered—sad, humorous, and always informative.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080329798X

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9780803297982

Book's by Roger Echo-Hawk

The Magic Children

The Magic Children

The Magic Children

The Magic Children

Embracing Fry Bread

Embracing Fry Bread

The Reluctant Pilgrim

The Reluctant Pilgrim

American Indians in U.S. History

American Indians in U.S. History

Touching the Fire

Touching the Fire

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