American Indians in the Marketplace
Subtitle: Persistence and Innovation Among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780700609833
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Cultural studies; Development economics; Development studies; Indigenous peoples; Industry & Industrial Studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Economic Anthropology; Native Americans - Southwest; Tsimshian Indians; Ethnic Issues; Native American; History: World; USA; Economic History; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Reference; Cultural assimilation; Economic conditions; Menominee Indians; Metlakatla (Alaska)
Description: "Brian Hosmer explores what happened when cultural identity and economic opportunity converged among two Native American communities that used community-based industries to both generate income and sustain their cultures. Comparing a lumber business run by the Menominees of Wisconsin and a salmon cannery established by British Columbian and Alaskan Tsimshian communities known as Metlakatla, Hosmer reveals how each tribe responded to market and political forces over fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.

"American Indians in the Marketplace is a story of adaptation that acknowledges the hardship and suffering common to most Indian-white contact while emphasizing the benefits of selective modernization accompanied by a constant re-invention of tradition. It questions the victim thesis of Native American history and shows that native peoples can meet the challenges of surviving in the larger world."--BOOK JACKET.