"As if Reviewing His Life": Bull Lodge's Narrative and the Mediation of Self-Representation

Autor/in	Gone, Joseph P.
Titel	"As if Reviewing His Life": Bull Lodge's Narrative and the Mediation of Self-Representation
Quelle	In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 30 (2006) 1, S.67-86 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-6463
Schlagwörter	Older Adults; Daughters; Genealogy; American Indians; Personal Narratives; American Indian Culture; American Indian History; Identification (Psychology); Autobiographies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Älterer Erwachsener; Daughter; Tochter; Ahnenforschung; Genealogie; American Indian; Indianer; Erlebniserzählung; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie
Abstract	In 1980, on behalf of the Gros Ventre people, George P. Horse Capture published "The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge, as Told by His Daughter, Garter Snake." "The Seven Visions" describes a lifetime of personal encounters with Powerful other-than-human Persons by the noted Gros Ventre warrior and ritual leader, Bull Lodge (ca. 1802-86). Bull Lodge recounted his life experiences to his daughter during the latter half of the nineteenth century, who then "gave" her father's "life story" to tribal member Fred Gone during her own old age. The significance of "Bull Lodge's Life" for the study of pre-reservation northern plains Indian history and culture would seem self-evident on several grounds, not the least of which is the unusual ceremonial detail recounted through the life and times of one of the most accomplished and renowned religious leaders on the northern plains in the past two centuries. The author, as a research psychologist is interested in the cultural construction of self, identity, and personhood. Together with his colleagues, they have suggested within past personal (that is, autobiographical) narrative, the discursive fusion of constructed self and intentional world is evident: "the convergence of the individual actor engaged in meaningful activity and the constituent practices embraced by a cultural community is explicit in the narrative events themselves." The author details Bull Lodge's experiences as an ambitious youth, accomplished warrior, powerful healer, and an elderly holy man. This article attempts to recontextualize the mediated events of narration that ultimately gave rise to the text in an effort to trace the genealogy of Frederick Peter Gone's unusual literary contribution. (Contains 32 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10