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Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (review)

Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (review) somewhat anachronistic style, slipping at times between a third-person narrative and a first-person presentation. Because of those shifts the reading is sometimes unwieldy and difficult, teetering on the edge of distraction. It is a product of its time, written in the 1930s during the time of another U.S. experiment in Indian policy, the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. It reads like a diary but is more than that. It is perhaps equal parts time capsule, ethnology, and life history. There are some ethnographic jewels in Ingstad’s writing. Ingstad’s descrip- tion of a puberty ceremony (48–51) is much less detailed than an anthropolo- gist’s might be, but the description is less mundane, including with the eth- nographic details the environmental sights and sounds the participants would have experienced. These details offer more insights into the Apache culture itself rather than merely describing the ceremony. Ingstad’s interdigitation of the environment with the people strengthens the description of the ceremony. The discussion of the social dance that followed the ceremony is likewise full of detail and anecdotes. But it is the expedition to the Sierra Madre in search of the last free-roaming Apaches that is the supposed subject of this book. While http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (review)

Cheek, Gary Coleman, --
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 32 (2) – Mar 18, 2008
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University of Nebraska Press
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somewhat anachronistic style, slipping at times between a third-person narrative and a first-person presentation. Because of those shifts the reading is sometimes unwieldy and difficult, teetering on the edge of distraction. It is a product of its time, written in the 1930s during the time of another U.S. experiment in Indian policy, the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. It reads like a diary but is more than that. It is perhaps equal parts time capsule, ethnology, and life history. There are some ethnographic jewels in Ingstad’s writing. Ingstad’s descrip- tion of a puberty ceremony (48–51) is much less detailed than an anthropolo- gist’s might be, but the description is less mundane, including with the eth- nographic details the environmental sights and sounds the participants would have experienced. These details offer more insights into the Apache culture itself rather than merely describing the ceremony. Ingstad’s interdigitation of the environment with the people strengthens the description of the ceremony. The discussion of the social dance that followed the ceremony is likewise full of detail and anecdotes. But it is the expedition to the Sierra Madre in search of the last free-roaming Apaches that is the supposed subject of this book. While

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The American Indian Quarterly – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Mar 18, 2008

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