Crafting an Indigenous Nation

Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era

Bibliographic Data

ID2706003
AuthorsJenny Tone-Pah-Hote (corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages162
Publication date2019-02-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCrafting an Indigenous Nation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643663.001.0001
OpenAlexW4241801764
ISBN9781469643663
Open LibraryOL28691757M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe's rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, Tone-Pah-Hote argues that their creation and exchange were as significant to the expression of Indigenous identity and sovereignty as formal political engagement and policymaking. These cultural forms, she argues, were sites of contestation as well as affirmation, as Kiowa people used them to confront external pressures, express national identity, and wrestle with changing gender roles and representations. Combatting a tendency to view Indigenous cultural production primarily in terms of resistance to settler-colonialism, Tone-Pah-Hote expands existing work on Kiowa culture by focusing on acts of creation and material objects that mattered as much for the nation's internal and familial relationships as for relations with those outside the tribe. In the end, she finds that during a time of political struggle and cultural dislocation at the turn of the twentieth century, the community's performative and expressive acts had much to do with the persistence, survival, and adaptation of the Kiowa nation

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Dance · Identity (music) · Indigenous · Literature · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Tribe · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Diverse Musicological Studies · Ecology · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Ethnic identity · Indian art · Indian arts · Indians of North America · Kiowa Indians · Political aspects · Social aspects · Social life and customs · West (U.S.)

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