North American Indian Religion in the History of Research: A General Survey. Part III

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Åke Hultkrantz
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
North American ◽  
General Survey ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
North American Indian ◽  
Indian Religion

Epic Learning in an Indian Pueblo: A Framework for Studying Multigenerational Learning in the History of Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrea Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Indian ◽  
North American ◽  
Southern California ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indian Populations ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
North American Indian

Writing from her position as the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) Superintendent at the Potrero School on the Morongo (Malki) reservation in southern California in 1909, Clara D. True concluded an article on her experiences as an Anglo teacher working with American Indian populations in the United States: The more one knows of the Indian as he really is, not as he appears to the tourist, the teacher, or the preacher, the more one wonders. The remnant of knowledge that the Red Brother has is an inheritance from a people of higher thought than we have usually based our speculation upon. It is to be regretted that in dealing with the Indian we have not regarded him worthwhile until it is too late to enrich our literature and traditions with the contribution he could so easily have made. We have regarded him as a thing to be robbed and converted rather than as a being with intellect, sensibilities, and will, all highly developed, the development being one on different lines from our own as only necessity dictated. The continent was his college. The slothful student was expelled from it by President Nature. Physically, mentally, and morally, the North American Indian before the degradation at our hands was a man whom his descendants need not despise.

Algonquian and Indo-European gender in a Historiographic Perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 333-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Kilarski
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
North American ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Culturally Based ◽  
History Of ◽  
North American Indian

Summary This article examines shared motifs in the history of the study of grammatical gender in North American Indian and Indo-European languages. Specifically, I investigate the degree of semantic and cultural motivation attributed to gender in Algonquian languages, and present analogies with accounts of gender in Indo-European. The presence of exceptions within animate gender in Algonquian has led to conflicting interpretations: while some focused on the arbitrary nature of the categorization, others regarded them as culturally based. Algonquian languages provide an example of how claims that have traditionally been made about Indo-European gender, particularly its supposed semantic arbitrariness, have been extended to languages apparently less suited for the purpose.

Disease and Infertility: a New Look at the Demographic Collapse of Native Populations in the Wake of Western Contact

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Stannard
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Indian Population ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Population History ◽  
American Indian Population ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
North American Indian

During the past fifty years few subjects of historical consequence have been more controversial than that of the population history of the American Indian. At one extreme, in 1939 Alfred L. Kroeber estimated the population of pre-Columbian North America at about 900,000. At the other extreme, in 1983 Henry F. Dobyns estimated it at about 18,000,000. Since the total North American Indian population by the early twentieth century was no more than 350,000 to 450,000, the human question concealed in the statistical controversy is staggering: did the North American Indian population decline by a ratio of about 2 to 1 between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century – or did it decline by 50 to 1 ? Or more?

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