Gambling and survival in Native North America / Paul Pasquaretta.

• Pequots -- "Could yee blame us for revenging so cruell a murder?": A dialogic critique of the Pequot war narratives -- "Lost in the deep. Voiceless obscurity": The Pequots as metaphor in Catharina Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie -- Crossbloods -- Land, literacy, and the Lord: Pequot tribal advocacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Fashioning a tribal utopia: Pequot self-representation in the contemporary period -- Gamblers -- On the "Indianness" of Bingo: Gambling and the Native American community -- Contesting the evil gambler: Gambling, choice, and survival in Native American Indian literature. 

• "The cards are turned, the chips are raked. In casinos all over the country, Native Americans are making money and reclaiming power. But the games are by no means confined to the tables, as the Mashantucket Pequots can attest. Although Anglo-Americans have attempted to undermine Pequot sovereignty for centuries, these Native Americans have developed a strategy of survival in order to maintain their sense of peoplehood - a resiliency that has vexed outsiders, from English settlers to Donald Trump." 
• "The Pequots have found success at their southeastern Connecticut casino in spite of the odds. But in considering their story, Paul Pasquaretta shifts the focus from casinos to the political struggles that have marked the long history of indigenous-colonial relations 
• Viewing the survival of Native communities in the face of genocide and forced assimilation as a high-stakes game of chance, he examines gambling metaphors in historical and literary contexts to reveal strategies employed by several tribes as they participate in various "games" with white society - whether land re-acquisition, political positioning, or resistance to outside dominance." 
• "Gambling and Survival in Native North America is a wideranging book that shows how Native Americans have become active participants in their own survival despite the popular belief that Indian tribes, as "conquered peoples," have been rendered helpless for over a century. Working within a system devised to confine and even destroy them, they have found ways to remain in the game - and, against all odds, have learned to play it well."--Jacket 

Ämnesord

Spel om pengar  (sao)

Reservat (nordamerikanska urfolk)  (sao)

Amerikanska urfolk  (sao)

Gambling on Indian reservations  -- United States (LCSH)

Pequot Indians  -- Gambling (LCSH)

Mohegan Indians  -- Gambling (LCSH)

Mohawk Indians  -- Gambling (LCSH)

Gambling  (LCSH)

Indian reservations  (LCSH)

Indians  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of Connecticut  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

E98.G18 (LCC)

306.4/82/089973 (DDC)

Ohk:oa (kssb/8 (machine generated))