Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Olson, Greg (1959-....)
Titre(s) : Ioway life [Texte imprimé] : reservation and reform, 1837-1860 / Greg Olson
Publication : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, copyright [2016]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xx, 163 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection : Civilization of the American Indian series ; volume 275
Lien à la collection : The Civilization of the American Indian series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-151) and index
In 1837 the Ioways, an Indigenous people who had called most of present-day Iowa and
Missouri home, were suddenly bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government
to restrict themselves to a two-hundred-square-mile parcel of land west of the Missouri
River. Forcibly removed to the newly created Great Nemaha Agency, the Ioway men, women,
and children, numbering nearly a thousand, were promised that through hard work and
discipline they could enter mainstream American society. All that was required was
that they give up everything that made them Ioway. In Ioway Life, Greg Olson provides
the first detailed account of how the tribe met this challenge during the first two
decades of the agency's existence. Within the Great Nemaha Agency's boundaries, the
Ioways lived alongside the U.S. Indian agent, other government employees, and Presbyterian
missionaries. These outside forces sought to manipulate every aspect of the Ioways'
daily life, from their manner of dress and housing to the way they planted crops and
expressed themselves spiritually. In the face of the white reformers' contradictory
assumptions--that Indians could assimilate into the American mainstream, and that
they lacked the mental and moral wherewithal to transform--the Ioways became adept
at accepting necessary changes while refusing religious and cultural conversion. Nonetheless,
as Olson's work reveals, agents and missionaries managed to plant seeds of colonialism
that would make the Ioways susceptible to greater government influence later on--in
particular, by reducing their self-sufficiency and undermining their traditional structure
of leadership. Ioway Life offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways' efforts
to retain their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha
Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the agency's files
and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study in U.S. colonialism
and Indigenous resistance
Sujet(s) : Iowa (Indiens) -- 19e siècle
Iowa (Indiens) -- Relations avec l'État -- 19e siècle
Iowa (Indiens) -- Terres -- 19e siècle
États-Unis. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Nemaha Agency
Indice(s) Dewey :
323.119 7 (23e éd.) = Droits civils et politiques des peuples autochtones de l'Amérique du Nord
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780806152110. - ISBN 0806152117
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47456793c
Notice n° :
FRBNF47456793
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The long road to the Great Nemaha Agency ; "The house is empty" ; "Useful in this
world and happy in the next" ; A change in Ioway leadership ; Crooked fathers and
neglected children ; Expanding horizons and constricting boundaries.
