Crisca Bierwert
Biographic Data
| ID | 158634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Crisca Bierwert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Crisca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bierwert |
| SIGNATURE | BIERWERT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Simon Ottenberg's Contribution to Coast Salish Arts
I first met Simon Ottenberg in 1976, when I began a graduate program in anthropology at the University of Washington, focusing on research with indigenous people of the region. As I began to study Lushootseed language and literature and Coast Salish art from the Pacific Northwest coast, I took Ottenberg's course on the anthropology of art. I found him to be deeply interested in, and supportive of, local indigenous studies.A scholar of African art…
Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River
Post-Colonial Studies of Native America. A Review Essay
Twenty years ago a work entitled The Nations Within examined the political structures that keep Native polities embedded within the United States, and the legal armature that sovereignty principles might provide for future activism (Deloria and Lytle 1984). The Native nations are still “within,” in the political sense, but they are “out” in public discourses; activism has given sovereignty claims more standing that all but dreamers would have ima…
Keeping the Lakes Way
Keeping the Lakes Way": Reburial and the Re-creation of. Moral World Among an Invisible People. Paula Pryce. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. ix. 203 pp., appendixes, notes, references, index
Remembering Chief Seattle
Political struggles over land claims in North America have long been matched by contesting images of Native peoples, a layered history recorded in oral traditions and in the print culture brought by Europeans. Indigenous leaders who are prominent in American popular culture tend to embody positions in Indian-White relations, whether they are heroes or villains in their narratives. The Coast Salish chief Seattle is one of these and, like most, he …
Lushootseed Texts
Lushootseed Texts
This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish-speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by Lushootseed elders are transcribed and translated into English, accompanied by information on narrative design and cultural background. Upper Skagit elder and cotranslator Vi Hilbert, a 1994 recipient of the NEH National Heritage Fellowship in Folk Arts, includes a cultural welcome and offers childhood …
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Remembering Chief Seattle
Political struggles over land claims in North America have long been matched by contesting images of Native peoples, a layered history recorded in oral traditions and in the print culture brought by Europeans. Indigenous leaders who are prominent in American popular culture tend to embody positions in Indian-White relations, whether they are heroes or villains in their narratives. The Coast Salish chief Seattle is one of these and, like most, he …
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Lushootseed Texts
This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish-speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by Lushootseed elders are transcribed and translated into English, accompanied by information on narrative design and cultural background. Upper Skagit elder and cotranslator Vi Hilbert, a 1994 recipient of the NEH National Heritage Fellowship in Folk Arts, includes a cultural welcome and offers childhood …
Lushootseed Texts
Remembering Chief Seattle
Political struggles over land claims in North America have long been matched by contesting images of Native peoples, a layered history recorded in oral traditions and in the print culture brought by Europeans. Indigenous leaders who are prominent in American popular culture tend to embody positions in Indian-White relations, whether they are heroes or villains in their narratives. The Coast Salish chief Seattle is one of these and, like most, he …
Keeping the Lakes Way
Keeping the Lakes Way": Reburial and the Re-creation of. Moral World Among an Invisible People. Paula Pryce. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. ix. 203 pp., appendixes, notes, references, index
Post-Colonial Studies of Native America. A Review Essay
Twenty years ago a work entitled The Nations Within examined the political structures that keep Native polities embedded within the United States, and the legal armature that sovereignty principles might provide for future activism (Deloria and Lytle 1984). The Native nations are still “within,” in the political sense, but they are “out” in public discourses; activism has given sovereignty claims more standing that all but dreamers would have ima…
Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River
Simon Ottenberg's Contribution to Coast Salish Arts
I first met Simon Ottenberg in 1976, when I began a graduate program in anthropology at the University of Washington, focusing on research with indigenous people of the region. As I began to study Lushootseed language and literature and Coast Salish art from the Pacific Northwest coast, I took Ottenberg's course on the anthropology of art. I found him to be deeply interested in, and supportive of, local indigenous studies.A scholar of African art…
Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Geography (2 works)