Title Weaving alliances with other women : Chitimacha Indian work in the new South / Daniel H. Usner

Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 110 pages) : illustrations Series Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 56 Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 56. Contents "Entirely a philanthropic work" : Mary McIlhenny Bradford, benevolent merchant -- "We have no justice here" : Christine Navarro Paul, Chitimacha basketmaker -- "Language of the wild things" : Caroline Coroneos Dormon, New Deal naturalist -- Appendix: "What a Chitimacha Indian woman did for her people," by Mary McIlhenny Bradford Summary "Friendships that Christine Paul (1874-1946) sustained with Mary Bradford (1869-1954) and Caroline Dormon (1888-1971) at different times in her life offer an all too scarce vantage point from which Daniel Usner explores the condition of American Indians in the Jim Crow South. 'Aspects that, for the most part, have not been addressed in historical works' according to Devon Mihesuah, 'are the feelings and emotions of Native women, the relationships among them, and their observations of non-Natives.' In Weaving Alliances with Other Women, Usner hopes to overcome this neglect for one Indigenous community in the southern United States. In Christine Paul's respective exchanges of information and insight with two non-Indian women, thanks to the survival of her invaluable correspondence with Bradford and Dormon, Usner attempts to ascertain what Rebecca Sharpless called a 'bivocal representation' of relationships fraught with important social, economic, and cultural tensions. Interacting closely within a social web largely woven with woven objects, the identities of these three women nonetheless developed along very separate paths--paths mapped-out by their unequal positions in the New South"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Paul, Christine Navarro, 1874-1946. Paul, Christine Navarro, 1874-1946 -- Friends and associates Bradford, Mary McIlhenny, 1869-1954. Dormon, Caroline, 1888-1971 SUBJECT Dormon, Caroline, 1888-1971 Bradford, Mary McIlhenny, 1869-1954 Paul, Christine Navarro, 1874-1946 -- Friends and associates Paul, Christine Navarro, 1874-1946 Bradford, Mary McIlhenny, 1869-1954 fast Dormon, Caroline, 1888-1971 fast Paul, Christine Navarro, 1874-1946 fast Subject Chitimacha Indians -- Biography Indian women basket makers -- Louisiana -- Biography Chitimacha Indians -- Social conditions -- 20th century Female friendship -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century White people -- Louisiana -- Relations with Indians -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Chitimacha Indians Friendship Indian women basket makers Race relations White people -- Relations with Indians SUBJECT Louisiana -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Louisiana Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820348476 0820348473

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