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PublisherLSU Press

ISBN-100807179914

ISBN-139780807179918

eBay Product ID (ePID)2331939005

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Book TitleNative American Women and the Burdens of Southern History

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Gender Studies, United States / General, Native American

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorDaniel H. Usner, Daniel H. Usner Jr.

Book SeriesWalter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-004089

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230223

ReviewsUsner depicts the essential and central roles that Indigenous women of the Lower Mississippi Valley played in the survival of their peoples over centuries of colonization and dispossession. . . . This book could be enjoyed by an audience with wide-ranging interests. Its overview of existing scholarship on Indigenous women offers a lot to historians as well., Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History is a short book, but it nevertheless manages to be comprehensive--and its incorporation of material culture as evidence makes the book especially useful. . . . [It] is a must-read for anyone interested in or teaching Native American women's history or gender studies, and its length is perfect for an undergraduate course., In three succinct chapters, Usner offers a retelling of several centuries of Lower Mississippi Valley history that foregrounds Indigenous women's adaptations to new challenges--especially how they turned the longstanding practice of basketmaking into a means of advocating for sovereignty and territory in a changing world. . . . Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History , then, is a compelling addition to the calls from scholars of the Native South for Southern historians to take seriously this region's Indigenous past and present.

Dewey Decimal975.004/97

SynopsisThough long neglected, the history and experiences of Indigenous women offer a deeper, more complex understanding of southern history and culture. In Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History , Daniel H. Usner explores the dynamic role of Native American women in the South as they confronted waves of colonization, European imperial invasion, plantation encroachment, and post?Civil War racialization. In the process, he reveals the distinct form their means of adaptation and resistance took. While drawing attention to existing scholarship on Native American women, Usner also uses original research and diverse sources, including visual images and material culture, to advance a new line of inquiry. Focusing on women?s responses and initiatives across centuries, he shows how their agency shaped and reshaped their communities? relations with non-Native southerners. Exploring basketry in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coastal South, Usner emphasizes the essential role women played in ongoing efforts at resistance and survival, even in the face of epidemics, violence, and enslavement unleashed by early colonizers. Foods and medicines that Native women gathered, carried, stored, and peddled in baskets proved integral in forming the region?s frontier exchange economy. Later, as the plantation economy threatened to envelop their communities, Indigenous women adapted to change and resisted disappearance by perpetuating exchange with non-Native neighbors and preserving a deep attachment to the land. By the start of the twentieth century, facing a new round of lethal attacks on Indigenous territory, identity, and sovereignty in the Jim Crow South, Native women?s resilient and resourceful skill as makers of basketry became a crucial instrument in their nations? political diplomacy. Overall, Usner?s work underscores how central Indigenous women have been in struggles for Native American territory and sovereignty throughout southern history., Though long neglected, the history and experiences of Indigenous women offer a deeper, more complex understanding of southern history and culture. In Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History , Daniel H. Usner explores the dynamic role of Native American women in the South as they confronted waves of colonization, European imperial invasion, plantation encroachment, and post-Civil War racialization. In the process, he reveals the distinct form their means of adaptation and resistance took. While drawing attention to existing scholarship on Native American women, Usner also uses original research and diverse sources, including visual images and material culture, to advance a new line of inquiry. Focusing on women's responses and initiatives across centuries, he shows how their agency shaped and reshaped their communities' relations with non-Native southerners. Exploring basketry in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coastal South, Usner emphasizes the essential role women played in ongoing efforts at resistance and survival, even in the face of epidemics, violence, and enslavement unleashed by early colonizers. Foods and medicines that Native women gathered, carried, stored, and peddled in baskets proved integral in forming the region's frontier exchange economy. Later, as the plantation economy threatened to envelop their communities, Indigenous women adapted to change and resisted disappearance by perpetuating exchange with non-Native neighbors and preserving a deep attachment to the land. By the start of the twentieth century, facing a new round of lethal attacks on Indigenous territory, identity, and sovereignty in the Jim Crow South, Native women's resilient and resourceful skill as makers of basketry became a crucial instrument in their nations' political diplomacy. Overall, Usner's work underscores how central Indigenous women have been in struggles for Native American territory and sovereignty throughout southern history.

LC Classification NumberE98.W8U86 2023