Basket Diplomacy - Leadership, Alliance Building, Resilience Among Coushatta Tribe of

Basket Diplomacy reveals how the Coushatta people made the Bayou Blue settlement their home by embedding themselves into the area’s cultural, economic, and political domains. 

List of contents

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
Chapter 1. “Don’t Forget Your Gumbo Bowl”: Building a Life at Bayou Blue    
Chapter 2. Refusing to Be Overlooked: Tribal Leadership and the Introduction of Federal Indian Services, 1913–1951    
Chapter 3. Abandoned, Not Terminated: The Aftermath and Response to the Unilateral Withdrawal of Federal Services, 1951–1962    
Chapter 4. Poor but Not Hopeless: Relentless Advocacy Efforts and the Opening of the First Tribal Enterprise, 1962–1969    
Chapter 5. An Unusual Road to Recognition: Uncovering Administrative Oversights and Drawing Louisiana into Indian Affairs, 1969–1973    
Chapter 6. Controlling the Conversation: Reshaping the Narrative and Building a Tribal Nation, 1973–1984    
Epilogue, by Chairman David Sickey    
Appendix    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    
 

About the author

Denise E. Bates is an associate dean and a professor of leadership and interdisciplinary studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South and editor of We Will Always Be Here: Native Peoples on Living and Thriving in the South.

Product details

• Authors: Denise Bates, Denise E Bates, Denise E. Bates
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781496212085
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-1208-5
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Heimatkunde, USA Süden