Embracing Fry Bread : Confessions of a Wannabe.

When he was out playing Indian, enacting Hollywood-inspired scenarios, it never occurred to the child Roger Welsch that the little girl sitting next to him in school was Indian. A lifetime of learning later, Welsch's enthusiasm is undimmed, if somewhat more enlightened. In Embracing Fry Bread W...

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Main Author: Welsch, Roger L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : UNP - Bison Original, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. First, a Story; 2. Introduction; 3. A Beginning; 4. Beyond the Handgame; 5. History, Long and Short; 6. Who Are We?; 7. The Call of Curiosity, Keep the Change; 8. Enter the Wannabes; 9. What's in a Name; 10. Who Is "The Indian"?; 11. Who Is the Wannabe?; 12. The Contrary Lesson of the Prime Directive; 13. First Steps; 14. The Fix Is Out; 15. Indian Wannabes; 16. Gottabes; 17. Becoming New; 18. How It Goes, How It Went; 19. The Plot Thickens; 20. Why?; 21. Gottabes Again; 22. The Ways of Foodways; 23. Carnivores Forever.
  • 24. Another World25. The Consequences of Incuriosity; 26. Symbols and Realities; 27. Indian Humor; 28. Names and Naming; 29. The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger of 1877; 30. Names ... and Names; 31. Matters of Faith; 32. Deduction/Induction; 33. What Is Indian Religion?; 34. The Sun Dance; 35. The Native Church; 36. Inside Native Religion; 37. Knowing What We Don't Know; 38. What History Teaches Us; 39. The Empty Frontier; 40. Indians Today; 41. Indians as Americans; 42. The Land; 43. The Real Wonder of It; 44. Eloquence; 45. From Presumed Inferiority to Rampant Egalitarianism; 46. Time.
  • 47. Property and Gifts48. The Gift of Giving; 49. The Fabric of Sharing; 50. The Spirit of Giving; 51. Squaring the Circle; 52. So, How Different Are We?; 53. What We See; 55. Conclusions; 56. Repositories of Wisdom; 57. What's in It for Indians?; 58. So You Wannabe a Wannabe?