Indian work
Subtitle: language and livelihood in Native American history
By: Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780674033498
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Economic conditions; Indians of North America -- Employment; Indians of North America -- Public opinion; Whites -- Relations with Indians; Public opinion -- United States; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Social policy; United States -- Economic policy
Description: 202 pages : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language; title: Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America; title: Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez; title: The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy; title: Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-civil war Louisiana; title: Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.