The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World

1918 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 859
Author(s):  
A. A. Goldenweiser ◽  
Clark Wissler
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
New World

American Indians Encounter the Bible

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Christopher Vecsey
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American Indians ◽  
New World ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
The Bible ◽  
To Receive

Abstract This article explores how Native Americans have received the Bible. Over the centuries some Indians have been inspired by the Bible, and some have been repelled by its long-standing place in colonization. The Christian invaders in the New World carried the Bible in their minds. It served as their inspiration, their justification, and their frame of reference as they encountered Indigenous peoples. In effect, the Bible was the template for exploration, conquest, identification of selves and others. The Christian invaders brought along or produced physical Bibles, which served their catechetical purposes, and in time they began to translate the Bible—in whole and in part—into American Indian languages. Therefore this article illustrates that to the present day Native Americans continue to receive the Bible actively and variously, attempting to fit it to their unfolding cultural stories. Ultimately, it has not lost its potency, nor have they lost their power to consider it on their own terms.

“Outcasts and Dreamers in the Cities”: Urbanity and Pollution in Dead Voices

PMLA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Blair Gamber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Indian ◽  
New World ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Native People ◽  
Gerald Vizenor ◽  
Native Context ◽  
Complete Formation

Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World, by the Anishinabe author Gerald Vizenor, shows how people can come to form a profound relationship to a place even in sites of (in this case, American Indian) displacement and relocation. I argue that Vizenor's text reflects a complete formation of an urban community in its reclamation of landfills and sewers as integral and religiously significant human spaces that must not be ignored. The community in this novel is not only multicultural but also interspecies, as Native ties to physical place and plant and animal species are reinforced. Moreover, I show the importance of this portrayal of urban community and belonging in a Native context, considering that over two-thirds of all Native people in the United States live in urban settings.

The Origins of American Agriculture

Antiquity ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 39 (154) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. MacNeish
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
New World ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Plant Domestication ◽  
Old World ◽  
American Agriculture ◽  
Cultural Developments

When prehistoric cultural developments in the Old and New World are compared, one difference is outstanding. The American Indian domesticated an inordinately large number of plants. This is even more remarkable when one considers that the prehistoric population of the Americas was very much less than that of the Old World and, also, that the development of American civilization began very much later.During the last 25 years, archaeological investigations in the New World have revealed considerable information about prehistoric plant domestication and agriculture. Although this data is far from complete, it is now possible to establish some hypotheses, not only about the origin and spread of several American domesticates, but also about the effect of plant domestication, and later agriculture, upon cultural development and process in the New World.

An Early Speculation concerning the Asiatic Origin of the American Indian

1956 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald L. Ives
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
New World ◽  
Low Latitudes ◽  
Asiatic Origin

Speculations concerning the origin of the American Indian began almost as soon as it became known that America Septentrional was inhabited. Most current theories favor an Asiatic origin, with migration through northern Kamchatka and Alaska. This is supported by rather plentiful evidence. A few anthropologists postulate an island-hopping trans-Pacific migration at relatively low latitudes. This theory is supported by conclusive modern proof that such voyages are possible. Other proposed origins include Palestine (“The Lost Tribes of Israel”), Argentina (Ameghino's “Hombre Terciaro”), various lost continents (such as James Churchward's Mu), and other planets, some no longer extant. These latter theories are based either on misinterpreted evidence (such as the Hombre Terciaro), or overactive imagination (such as Mu), and merit no further consideration here.Although the theory of Asiatic origin of the American Indian is the most widely accepted today, its first proposal seems quite difficult to locate, particularly as Columbus and his crewmen believed that the inhabitants of the New World were Asiatics.

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