Devils in Disguise: The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s

Autor/in	Cobb, Daniel M.
Titel	Devils in Disguise: The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 31 (2007) 3, S.465-490 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	American Indian Education; American Indian Reservations; American Indian History; American Indian Studies; Indigenous Populations; Indigenous Knowledge; Community Surveys; Community Study; Community Development; Change Agents; Social History; Philanthropic Foundations; Critical Theory; Political Attitudes; Historical Interpretation; Oklahoma + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Indianerreservat; Sinti und Roma; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Sozialgeschichte; Philanthropismus; Kritische Theorie; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Historische Interpretation
Abstract	In this article, the author talks about the experiences of many of the people involved in the Carnegie Project, an effort in the 1960s to establish ties with the "tribal community"--people who spoke Cherokee as their first language and lived in small kin-related settlements spread across five counties in northeastern Oklahoma--and directly involve them in a program to promote literacy in English. The story that emerges is not merely about a squabble between Indians and anthropologists in the state of Oklahoma. Instead it is about how Native and non-Native people engaged in the politics of community, identity, poverty, and power in Cold War America. Historians regard the 1960s as a tumultuous decade in which longstanding assumptions regarding who could speak, about what topics, and through which discursive procedures were called into question. These were years of disillusionment and anger, of divisions that left deep wounds in need of healing. The Cherokee Nation stood at the center, not the margins, of this history. Situating the story of the Carnegie Project in the context of a culture at war with itself allows one to see that there were no devils in disguise, only people who seemed that way amidst the confusion of troubled times. (Contains 47 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10