World Between 2 Rivers-87-P (Ihc)

by Gretchen M. Bataille and Charles L. (Editors) Bataiille, Gretchen M.; Gradwohl, David M.; & Silet

Book Overview

Originally published in 1978, "The Worlds between Two Rivers "intentionally reflected a wide spectrum of views on Native Americans in Iowa: those of Native Americans themselves and of Euro-Americans, those of laypeople, and those of professional educators, social scientists, and humanists. Now, more than twenty years later, this expanded edition reflects the far-reaching and complicated changes for American Indians in this region. Two new essays--one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813817943
• ISBN13: 9780813817941
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Iowa State Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Native American History in Iowa

This is a revised edition of milestone essays first prepared in 1971 and published in hardback form in 1978. It was prepared through a research group from Iowa State University, reportedly one of the first American Indian Studies courses in the U.S. Many of the authors of the essays were Native American; several have since passed away. The chapters in this revised edition include updates in the preface, resources/bibliography, and two new essays on NAGPRA and the Ioway tribe. The chapters are: -A new preface to the revised edition recapping the history of the program and the current (2000) situation in Iowa. 1. American Indian Literature: Contexts for Understanding (Fred McTaggart) 2. The Image of the American Indian in Film (Charles Silet) 3. The Unknown Past: Sources for History Education and the Indians of Iowa (L. Edward Purcell) 4. The Native American Perspective in Iowa: An Archaeological Perspective (David Mayer Gradwohl) 5. Mesquakie History - As We Know It (Bertha Waseskuk, Meskwaki) 6. The Red Earth People in 1905: A Photographic Essay (Duren Ward) 7. The Lion, Fleur-de-lis, the Eagle, or the Fox (Donald Wanatee, Meskwaki) 8. Urbanization of the American Indian: One Man's View (Reuben Snake, Winnebago/Hochunk) 9. Educated or Indian? (Either/Or) (Owana McLester-Greenfield, Shoshone) 10. Education, the Family, and the Schools (Adeline Wanatee, Meskwaki) 11. The American Indian in Sioux City: A Historical Overview (Michael Husband and Gary Koerselman) 12. The American Indian and Ethnicity in Iowa's Future (Joseph Hraba) 13. Reflections of an Indian (Donald Graham, Santee Sioux) 14. Give Me Back My People's Bones: Repatriation and Reburial of American Indian Skeletal Remains in Iowa (Maria Pearson, Yankton Sioux) 15. A Closing Circle: Musings on the Ioway Indians in Iowa (Lance Foster, Ioway) -The American Indian in Iowa: A Selected Bibliography -Selected Updated Bibliography

Essential Reading for Native American Studies

This is a reissue of a book that is currently the only book that covers the general story of the Indians of Iowa, from past to present. In addition to the original essays, there are two new ones, both praiseworthy. One essay, by Maria Pearson, Yankton Sioux, describes her fight to protect native burials in Iowa-- which established state law that was the basis for the national law to protect native burials and sacred objects, NAGPRA. The other essay is a personal musings on the native tribe that provided Iowa with its name, the Iowa tribe; it is by Lance Foster, a member of the Iowa tribe. Few people recognize the importance of Indian history in the state of Iowa.. this book will help correct that.