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Author Usner, Daniel H., author.

Title Weaving alliances with other women : Chitimacha Indian work in the new South / Daniel H. Usner.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 110 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 56
Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 56.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Entirely a philanthropic work" : Mary McIlhenny Bradford, benevolent merchant -- "We have no justice here" : Christine Navarro Paul, Chitimacha basketmaker -- "Language of the wild things" : Caroline Coroneos Dormon, New Deal naturalist -- Appendix: "What a Chitimacha Indian woman did for her people," by Mary McIlhenny Bradford.
Summary "Friendships that Christine Paul (1874-1946) sustained with Mary Bradford (1869-1954) and Caroline Dormon (1888-1971) at different times in her life offer an all too scarce vantage point from which Daniel Usner explores the condition of American Indians in the Jim Crow South. 'Aspects that, for the most part, have not been addressed in historical works' according to Devon Mihesuah, 'are the feelings and emotions of Native women, the relationships among them, and their observations of non-Natives.' In Weaving Alliances with Other Women, Usner hopes to overcome this neglect for one Indigenous community in the southern United States. In Christine Paul's respective exchanges of information and insight with two non-Indian women, thanks to the survival of her invaluable correspondence with Bradford and Dormon, Usner attempts to ascertain what Rebecca Sharpless called a 'bivocal representation' of relationships fraught with important social, economic, and cultural tensions. Interacting closely within a social web largely woven with woven objects, the identities of these three women nonetheless developed along very separate paths--paths mapped-out by their unequal positions in the New South"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Paul, Christine Navarro, 1874-1946.
Paul, Christine Navarro, 1874-1946.
Paul, Christine Navarro, 1874-1946 -- Friends and associates.
Friends and associates.
Bradford, Mary McIlhenny, 1869-1954.
Bradford, Mary McIlhenny, 1869-1954.
Dormon, Caroline, 1888-1971.
Dormon, Caroline, 1888-1971.
Chitimacha Indians -- Biography.
Chitimacha Indians.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Indian women basket makers -- Louisiana -- Biography.
Indian women basket makers.
Louisiana.
Chitimacha Indians -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Female friendship -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.
Female friendship.
Social aspects.
History.
White people -- Louisiana -- Relations with Indians -- History -- 20th century.
White people.
Relations with Indians.
Louisiana -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Race relations.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Subject Women's friendships.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 9780820348483 0820348481 (DLC) 2015003593 (OCoLC)905685569
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9780820348483 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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