Bøger af Roger Echo-Hawk

This book is the first of three volumes that explore the history of the Pawnee people, a comprehensive narrative of community and selfhood. In Ancient Pawneeland we excavate ancient history from misty glimpses of antiquity. The eight essays in this volume begin with mythological events and dark world origins, and take us onward to the founding of Pawnee communal identities by the 14th century. Weaving together oral tradition and archaeology, this book integrates diverse realms of knowledge into unexpected vistas on ancient Pawnee history.

This second edition of Tolkien in Pawneeland (July 2016) features new essays on JRR Tolkien's use of the real-world traditions of race, including a detailed analysis of the transformation of his fairytale goblins into racialized "Mongol-type" orcs. The first edition of Tolkien in Pawneeland (December 2013) shared groundbreaking new insights on North American mythology and Middle-earth. Comparison of shared textual elements shows that Tolkien made use of a 1904 book called Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee to colorize The Book of Lost Tales, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. This new edition of Tolkien in Pawneeland adds more detail to those insights. It greatly expands the scope of inquiry, delving into Tolkien's hobbit origin story and his knowledge of British folklore. This book illuminates JRR Tolkien's creative strategy of harvesting details from diverse mythological and folkloric traditions, reconfiguring them into his own epic tales of Middle-earth.

This book is the second of three volumes on the history of the Pawnee people. It examines the roots of the primary shaping cultural innovation in recent Pawnee history - an issue ignored in all other studies of Pawneeland. The 18th century saw the slow formulation of race as a global identity system in Europe and America, and the Pawnees embraced this innovation early in the 19th century. The ideas of race flowed up the Mysterious River in those days, and the coming of racial identity systems rewrote the nature of humankind and the truths of the Pawnee world.

This book is the concluding volume of a trilogy on the history of the Pawnee people. Taken together, the three books of The Enchanted Mirror set forth a panoramic narrative of community and selfhood in the Pawnee world. In the first book, Ancient Pawneeland, we excavate ancient history from misty glimpses of antiquity. In Community and Confederacy in Pawneeland we examine the origins of racial identity systems as a primary cultural shaping force. In this third volume, The Seven Brothers, we explore Echo Hawk family history during the 19th century and 20th century - a tale of genocidal war, diaspora, and the power of racial Indianhood in Pawneeland.

This passionate book offers a powerful mediation on racialism and a manifesto for creating a world without it. It examines personal identity, social movements, and policy--NAGPRA, Indian law, Red Pride, indigenous archaeology--showing how they rely on race and how they should move beyond it.