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Ute land religion in the American West, 1879-2009 / Brandi Denison.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New visions in Native American and indigenous studiesPublisher: [Lincoln] : Co-published by the University of Nebraska Press and American Philosophical Society, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 304 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781496201393
  • 1496201396
  • 9781496201416
  • 1496201418
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ute land religion in the American West, 1879-2009.DDC classification:
  • 979.004/974576 23
LOC classification:
  • E99.U8 D46 2017
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: "Where it was; where it happened": religion, memory, and the American West -- Plowing for providence: Nathan Meeker's folly -- Of outrageous treatment: sexual purity, empire, and land -- She-towitch and Chipeta: remembering the "good" Indian -- Abstracting Ute land religion: fiction and anthropology on the reservation -- Remembering removal: enacting religion and memorializing the land -- The limits of reconciliation: Ute land religion, hunting rights, and the Smoking River Powwow -- Conclusion: the burden of dirt: the politics of memory and ownership.
Summary: "A regional history of contact between Utes and white settlers, from 1879-2009, that examines the production of an idealized American religion in the American West through the intersection of religion, land, and cultural memory."--Provided by publisher
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1528597

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "Where it was; where it happened": religion, memory, and the American West -- Plowing for providence: Nathan Meeker's folly -- Of outrageous treatment: sexual purity, empire, and land -- She-towitch and Chipeta: remembering the "good" Indian -- Abstracting Ute land religion: fiction and anthropology on the reservation -- Remembering removal: enacting religion and memorializing the land -- The limits of reconciliation: Ute land religion, hunting rights, and the Smoking River Powwow -- Conclusion: the burden of dirt: the politics of memory and ownership.

"A regional history of contact between Utes and white settlers, from 1879-2009, that examines the production of an idealized American religion in the American West through the intersection of religion, land, and cultural memory."--Provided by publisher

Print version record.