Usner, Daniel H.

Indian work language and livelihood in Native American history / [electronic resource] : Daniel H. Usner, Jr. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - 202 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-187) and index.

Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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.


Electronic books.

E98.E2 / U85 2009

330.9730089/97