Best native american demographic studies according to redditors
We found 46 Reddit comments discussing the best native american demographic studies. We ranked the 25 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 46 Reddit comments discussing the best native american demographic studies. We ranked the 25 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Dude, there are Afrocentrists who believe the natives of the Americas were actually black and Africa had a globe spanning empire with tons of colonies before Europe colonized everything.
They seriously believed that since pyramids exist in Mexico and in Africa, therefore the ancient Mexicans were actually Africans.
A whole book had to be written by a historian just to counter the crap afrocentrists push.
The entire basis of the claims from the afrocentrists were that the Olmec heads have huge lips. That's literally the only evidence.
It all depends what specifically you are interested in and how far your current knowledge goes. There are some great books that provide gneral overviews in question form, "Everything you want to know about Indians but were too afraid to ask" by Anton Treuer provides a super basic starting place on a variety of topics. His brother, David Treuer, wrote a great book called "Rez Life" that puts a very intense and personal touch on the issues to sovereignty and land management that many tribes have to deal with.
Some interesting stuff I've read lately:
"Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma"
"Conquest; Sexual Violence and American Genocide."
"Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women & The Survival of Community"
Economics:
Reservation "Capitalism"
Buffalo, Inc.
Political/Policy Issue Books:
A Whale Hunt discusses Makah Whaling.
High Stakes Discusses gaming & the Seminole in Flordia.
I could probably go on forever. I spend too much money on books.
Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso is my recommendation. The first anthropology book that opened up my mind to just how different another culture can be from my own. Amazing journey through the language and culture of the Apache people.
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WV9WV8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
I don't understand this title. Why "as recently"? That's not recently at all... Nor was the 1969 White Paper aimed at "ending poverty" as much as it was to "abolish the Indian Act and dismantle the established legal relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the state of Canada in favour of equality." Which is directly from the Wiki page that you linked.
It was also a terrible idea. It was so bad that it spurred First Nations peoples to organize against it, leading to the publication of Harold Cardinal's Unjust Society and Harold Adams' Prison of Grass. These two books shaped a generation of First Nations peoples to fight against the actions of the federal government.
My first year in the Master's program I took a seminar in Culture and Economy. We had a pretty good stack of books we read through out the semester. I highly recommend these.
Stephen Gudeman- The Anthropology of Economy
Wilk and Cligget- Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology 2nd Ed
Marshall Sahlins- Stone Age Economics
Karen Ho- Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
Colloredo-Mansfeld- The Native Leisure CLass: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes
Nancy Munn- The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society
Michael T. Taussig- The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
Taussig is a great writer. Wilk and Cligget's book is good for basic foundations Economic Anthropology. Karen Ho's book is also a great institutional ethnography as well. Happy Reading!
I can't speak for what's going on here, but in the 1970's it was pretty common for First Nations women to be forcibly sterilized. It was a practice supported by the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare that was inspired by the population control movement. There are stories of women going in for tonsillectomies or to have an appendix removed and leaving with a lubal litigation. Doctors would also lead women to believe that the surgeries were reversible. Losing a license would only occur if the woman had access to means of filing a grievance. Oftentimes information and resources are hard to come by, and even if they are available undocumented women would likely avoid "causing trouble" for fear of deportation. *Also, just remembered that this article is about prisoners. Women in prisons have even less agency.
There are lots of books written on the subject, but anyone interested should check out Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
First Nation? Second Thoughts by Tom Flanagan is probably the most representative book on the conservative (small c) view of Indigenous issues; I know some people have a negative opinion towards Flanagan, but this work is great by most academic standards and I think it's a must read for anyone interested in Indigenous issues.
Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State by Alan Cairns. This was Cairns response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal's people. Again, I think it's a must read to learn more about the various perspectives about Indigenous issues.
Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom by Taiaiake Alfred. Alfred is probably the most "extreme" in terms of his vision for Indigenous peoples in Canada, but he's a must read.
Unjust Society by Harold Cardinal. This book provides the greatest insight into why the White Paper was met with opposition from Indigenous peoples and to Indigenous issues in general (it's a little older, but if you were to read one book out of all the ones I recommended this would be it)
Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics by Donald Savoie. I haven't read this one yet (I hope to soon) so I can't speak to how it is, but I've been told it's a great book. It basically looks at how the federal government has become increasingly centralized into the PMO
EDIT: If you go to university/college and have free access to academic journals you should look in those. There are so many interesting articles and are less time consuming than books. Here's a directory of open access journals, but keep in mind not all of these journals are of "top quality"
Carlisle School was only one of many similar schools. You might be interested in this book which goes into some of the first person experiences Native children faced in these schools.
All right. Just went through my library and the following stood out to me:
Desert Solitaire (1968) by Edward Abbey: One of the best American voices for conservation spent some seasons as a park ranger in the desert southwest. Here are some brilliant, funny, and soundly critical musings inspired by his time there.
A Continuous Harmony (1972) & The Unsettling of America (1977) by Wendell Berry: In my opinion, Wendell Berry is the best cultural critic we've ever had. He's 86 now and still a powerful voice of reason in a chaotic society. Dismissed mistakenly by fools as someone who just wants to go back to the old days, he offers much-needed critiques on our decomposing relationship to the land and what it's been doing to our culture.
Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1962) by Harry M. Caudill: This Kentucky native saw what the predatory and morally bankrupt coal industry had done to the people and land (and the relationship between the two) in Appalachia and outlined how it all happened in powerful inarguable detail. This book serves as a stern warning about what chaos and destruction industries can bring forth when profit is their only concern. Anyone wondering why Appalachia is full of depressed drug addicts can find the roots of those issues in this book, which inspired The War on Poverty.
The Big Sky (1947) by A.B. Guthrie Jr. : A classic novel about a young kid who runs away to join the fur trade in the frontier days. It tells a very believable story, rather than chasing the overblown myths of the West like most novels dealing with that subject.
Shantyboat (1977) & Payne Hollow by Harlan Hubbard: He and his wife Anna built a truly rewarding and pleasant life together almost entirely independent of modern industrial society in the 1940s and 50s, first floating down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers on a shantyboat they built, living from temporary gardens and trading with people they met along the river, and then settling into Payne Hollow where they lived a realer-than-Thoreau existence together for decades. True love, and true meaningful living.
Of Wolves and Men (1978) by Barry Lopez: Rogan seems to think he's some kind of authority on wolves and I cringe every time I hear him start talking about them. It doesn't begin and end with "These are savage fucking predators that need to be controlled!" He seriously needs to read this book, which is a beautifully-written and exhaustive look at the history of the relationship between human and wolves. Like most interesting things, it is a complex issue.
My Life With The Eskimo (1909?) by Vilhjalmur Stefansson: The accounts of an ethnologist traveling through the arctic before much contact had been made between Europeans and Natives. Incredible stories of survival and the inevitable interesting situations that occur when two vastly different cultures meet.
The Marsh Arabs (1964) & Arabian Sands (1959) by Wilfred Thesiger: This dude went deep. Deep into the marshes of Southern Iraq and deep into the Empty Quarter of Arabia. Both books are amazing accounts of voyages through incredible parts of the world whose geography and people have since been changed forever.
The Mountain People (1972) by Colin M. Turnbull: This anthropologist lived with the Ik in Uganda as they went through a complete cultural disintegration brought on by starvation during a drought. Reading this, one sees how quickly complete tragic anarchy takes hold when basic resources are in desperate need. Humanity went out the window.
Let me know if you ever read any of these, and how you like them. I would bet they provide anyone with good food for thought and discussion.
Just read ethnographies on a subject or group that interests you.
One of my favorites in college was [In Search of Respect(]http://www.amazon.com/Search-Respect-Structural-Analysis-Sciences/dp/0521017114). Philippe Bourgeois was studying crack dealers in El Barrio (a mostly Hispanic are of New York City also called Spanish Harlem). It's a very good ethnography because it is objective, showing how social capital and other phenomena play a role in keeping the crack dealers from "going legit," yet it does not make apologies for the sometimes obscene things they do to other human beings.
Thunder Rides a Black Horse is about a traditional Mescalero coming of age ceremony for women.
Life and Death on Mt Everest is an intimate look at the experienced Sherpas who aid mountain climbers as they tackle the world's tallest mountain.
There are ethnographies all over the place on just about every culture you could ask for. Just do a google search on something that interests you and use the keyword "ethnography" in your search. You're bound to come up with something.
The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination by Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development is a decent book with a large overview of the things you are looking for.
And Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development by Miriam Jorgensen is also a good choice.
Both of these books come from a policy position, but have Native voices within them and contain a variety of examples.
I listed a few just last week on a reply to someone's question, here's the list:
Unfortunately, I've moved fairly recently and my library is somewhat fractured, so I don't have all of my books handy at the moment. I see that Kate Bornstein's books have been mentioned, she's a fun author. There's also Miss Vera's Crossdress For Success which is not exactly about gender (also a little brusque at times), but more about achieving desired gender presentation.
If you're looking for inspiration, these two books are great places to start:
https://www.amazon.com/State-Native-Nations-Conditions-Self-Determination/dp/0195301269
https://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Native-Nations-Strategies-Development/dp/0816524238/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TF9GCDSDMVKDAX8FZ04B
Check your local library, they may also have those books. If you live on Rosebud Sinte Gleska should have them, or they can get them on loan from one of the other SD universities.
Racism is systemic; in Canada, institutions and everyday practices benefit white people. The fact that you refer to a “ghost racist” in the system because you can’t identify any overtly “racist laws” is simply more evidence of white privilege. In other words, you don’t recognize it because if hasn’t impacted you negatively. And when I say “negative” I don’t mean being ineligible for a scholarship, as you have mentioned.
Take note of who (i.e., which races) are represented in your everyday life at Dalhousie. How diverse is your classroom? What do your professors look like, and particularly those who hold tenured/other high-ranking positions? Predominant whiteness in academic institutions, for example, does not occur by accident or from the actions of a ghost racist for that matter.
The point is, racism — while not evident to you — is woven into the fabric of academia. If you are looking for more specifics, I would direct you to this book: https://www.amazon.ca/Equity-Myth-Racialization-Indigeneity-Universities/dp/0774834889
dehydratedpink and timdiggerm are right, I explained briefly above.
I don't know exactly how the question of impotence relates with the semen. It might, seeing how semen is a male lifeforce that make you "strong" but I don't recall exactly if it's part of the symbolism. On the other, I do tend to remember that speaking of bedroom woes in public is a huge no-no to them, and it's a tool sometimes used by women to shame their husbands, who on occasion will hang themselves if the woman goes too far.
Papua NG is amazingly interesting if you like to see how intricate and diverse human society can be. Even as a layman, just out of curiosity it's worth reading a couple of books. This one is really good for a general and accessible overview of the Baruya.
EDIT: Also, he is not always that much older. Sometimes the age difference is only a few years. The "uncle" thing can be deceiving because we are so used to the older uncles in our systems.
I took a class on Native American Women, we read a book called Conquest. It is a heavy nonfiction book, but it is extremely informative. It’s about sexual violence and genocide of indigenous people.
http://www.amazon.com/Netsilik-Eskimo-Asen-Balikci/dp/0881334359
Check out this book. Read it in a foraging societies class. There are some videos that go along with it too, not sure where you could find those.
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If you're looking for a good, accessible non-partisan book written by an actual lawyer, rather than something written by "Canada's leading public intellectual"(tm), I strongly recommend Resource Rulers: http://www.amazon.ca/Resource-Rulers-Fortune-Canadas-Resources/dp/0988056909 Level-headed, detailed presentation.
> There's something wrong with you if you don't see what's wrong with that subreddit.
That's an easy way to marginalize my view without providing any substantial counter-arguments why your proclamation is true.
> You waste your time harassing people for making unPC comments you don't like
Maybe you need to read about the monstrous history behind those "unPC" comments.
> There's nothing nice or fun about you.
Yeah, there's nothing nice or fun about institutionalized, systematic rape, forced sterilization, and cultural genocide. It's beyond repulsive when the destruction of culture has been codified into law.
> That subreddit is worthy of study as a psychosis.
Questioning the sanity of people has been a long-time attempt to quiet people who challenge others' worldviews. I find it very ironic that you insinuate that partipants of that subreddit suffer psychosis. History shows us that white supremacy isn't some insane, extremist view--no, in fact, the supremacy of whiteness pervades our everyday life. As a minority, I can tell you how subtle forms of the ascendancy of "white" values trump many other cultures' values. The logic that white people/westerners use is circular. "Our values are better because we're better because our values are better because we're better because our values are better...so screw everyone else's way of life/cultural values and practices!" Believe that your values are better isn't wrong in and of itself--but asserting that and then forcing "lesser" people to conform to your way of life IS wrong.
I've attempted to address your properly, and all you've done is insult and call into question SRS's sanity. That doesn't sound very mature to me. In fact, it appears you are, to borrow your own words, "recoiling into a repugnant immaturity."
Not exactly biology, but does anthropology count? Conquest by Andrea Smith explains great deals of info about the relationship of race and racism as a social construct, and relationship with colonialism, imperialism and genocide.
https://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Sexual-Violence-American-Genocide/dp/0822360381
For starters: Wikipedia - Paleolithic Diet
I was really into anthropology a few years ago. Among other things I recall reading was that when humans first started eating grains 10,000 years ago, the average human lost a foot in height due to the lack of nutrients in neolitihic (grain-based) diets as compared to the paleolithic diet which their bodies had evolved to eat. This unhealthy diet, combined with sedentary living conditions (animal and human domestication) also led to either the introduction of - or massive increases of - almost every form of disease, including influenza, cancer, asthma, allergies, and heart disease, which continue to rise to this day.
Books I would recommend on the topic:
The Forest People by Colin Turnbull (study of a hunter-gatherer pygmy tribe, almost utopian)
The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull (study of an african tribe recently forced to adopt agriculture, truly horrific to read)
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures by Marvin Harris
Twilight of the Machines by John Zerzan
My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization by Chellis Glendinning
One excellent series is The Slaveholding Indians by Dr. Annie Heloise Abbel. It was written in 1915, but it hold up well as an excellent account of the different Southern tribes that owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.
https://www.amazon.com/Slaveholding-Indians-Vol-Slaveholder-Secessionist/dp/1481259717
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I am only answering further because I looked at your artwork and it is nice, and it seems you did not pursue the anthropology thing further, which is a good thing. So there's the possibility you're not completely aligned with the US anthropology cult, with its known problems, prejudices and motivations.
I am glad you pointed out various Maya are still around, this is important to educate people on. After all, if they weren't around any more, who would the US have to finance the assassination of in central america through ongoing genocidal schemes?
Your follow up statement that "I'm led to believe that their view of the downfall would be as varied as the countries across which they are spread" does suggest that you have in fact talked to Maya people, and are aware that there was no "collapse" at all, and are aware there is no single Mayan people, and are aware that the ongoing changes in various Maya cultures in history, like the histories of most cultures, aren't particularly sudden or mysterious. These were the main issues with your previous post.
Maya peoples know their history, have maintained their oral and written records, and there is no huge mystery of their history.
There is only the american anthropologists and archaeologists who continue to claim that there is a mystery here or there, while they ignore actual history kept by non-white and non-american peoples. (I qualify this with 'white' because the non-white american anthropologists I know do not have this belief, nor do the non-american white anthropologists.) These are bizarre claims and are among the many reasons that american anthropologists are regarded with skepticism and ridicule by much of the rest of the world anthropological communities.
Worthwhile reading to decolonize the minds of those who have been through US or similarly minded anthro programs.
Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State
From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich
Darkness in El Dorado
Custer Died for Your Sins
Indians and Anthropologists
Read all these. Then proceed.