Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History

by Daniel H. Usner Jr.

Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history.

Officials, reformers, anthropologists, and artists produced images that exacerbated Indians' economic uncertainty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674033493
• ISBN13: 9780674033498
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"