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Index Acosta,Joseph de, 13-14, !55 n.61 Mrican Americans, 5, 31-38, 43, 77, 80-85, !58 n.95; artists, 7-8, 80-82 (see also Saar, Betye; Stout, Renee); beliefs of, I~ (see also conjure; fetishism; hoodoo; magic; voodoo); and folklore, 33, 43, 47-50, 84, 144-45; folklore collections, 50-59; identity, 85-86; and superstition, 4, 48-50, 57, 63-64, 163 n.36; writers, 7-8, 59-70, 80 Mrican American Spiritual churches, 90 Mricans, 11-12, 20-21, 173 n.52; art of, 80, I 04-10; cultural survivals of, 68, 82-88, 116, 174 n.57; Dogon people, 124-25; fetishes of, 106, 109; masks of, 73-74, 103 Alexie, Sherman, Reservation Blues, 127-29, 132, 141 American Folklore Society, 14~5 American Indian peoples, 74-80; Algonquian, 23-24, 151 n.23, 154 n.53; Cherokee, 165 n.62; of Georgia, 164 n.58; Haida, !54 n.53; Hopi, 157 n.87; Huron, 25-26; Iroquois, 24, 31, 161 n.l3; Lakota (Sioux), 31, !58 n.92; Lumbee, 87; Mardi Gras, 90; Mi'kmaq, 25-27, !56 n.74; Mohawk, 28; Montagnais, 25-26; Narragansett, 24-25; of the Northwest coast, 23, 170 n.l2; Ojibwa (Chippewa), 21-23, 29, 156 n.83; Potawatomi, 44; of the Southwest, 170 n.12; Zuni, 29-30, 130, !57 n.87. See also British Columbia Indians American Indians: artists, 7-8, 78-80, 130; beliefs of, 1~, 4~5, 134-35; and Christianity, 5, 150 n.l3; folklore of, 47~8;andidentity, 128-29, 132;and monotheism, !57 n.92; and museum collections, 74-76; poetry of, 78; preachers, 5; rhythm of, 77; songs of, 77-78, 129; and spirituality, 41~2, 129, 130-35, 154 n.56, !58 n.92; spokespeople, 86; terminology used, 149 n.l; writers, 7-8, 44-47, 78-80, 87. See also animism; fetishism; manitou; totemism Anderson, Mother Leafy, 90 Andrews, William, 68-69 animism, 17-19, 23, 30, !54 n.56 anthropology, 7, 17-19, 31, 72, 83-84, 86-89, 182 n.85; "salvage ethnography," 170 n.l2 Apess, William, 5 appropriations, 103, 130-35, 184 n.l3; New Age, 129, 131; in Silko, 13~0 art: Mrican American, 7-8, 80-82; assemblage, 33-34, 72, 102, 104-10; and ceremony, 102, 103, 109-10; and conjure, 102, 107-8, 110-12; and magic, 73-74, 106-10, 114; and modernism, 71-76; and religion, 107-9 assimilation policies, 43~4 Atkins,John, 12 Austin, Mary, The American Rhythm, 76-77 Australian aborigines, 22 Baker, Houston, 102, 112-14, 115; A.froAmerican Poetics: Revisions qf Harlem and the Black Aesthetic, 114; criticism of, I 79 n.47; Workings qf the Spirit, 113 Baker,Josephine, 74 Baker, Lee, 84 Baraga, Bishop, Dictionary qf the Otchipwe Language, 29 208 Index Baraka, Arniri, 115-16 Baudin, Rev. P., Fetichism and Fetich Worshippers, 2o-21 Beard,James Melville, K.K.K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic, 49-50 Bell, Michael Edward, 105, 107-8; "Pattern, Structure, and Logic in Afro-American Hoodoo Performance," 33-34 Benjamin, Walter, 71-72 Bennett, Hal Zina, Zuni Fetishes: Using American Objectsfor Meditation, Reflection and Insight, 130-31 Bennett, Lerone, 35 Berns, Marla, Ill Berry,Jason, 90 Black Arts movement, 116 Black Elk, 31 Black Hawk, 90 Black, Mary, 29 Black World Repertory, Totem W!ices, 131-32 blues music, 35, 116, 127-29, 168 n.IOI, 180 n.61; and conjure, 111-12. See also Alexie, Sherman Blues Revival, 127 Boas, Franz, 31, 83-84, 86-87, 88 body, the, 35-36, 66, 69 Bosman, William, 11-12 Brandon, William, 78, 141 Brebeuf,Jean de, 26 Brinton, Daniel, Religions Iff Primitive Peoples, 23 British Columbia Indians, 154 n.53 Brodhead,Richard,64,65,67 Brown, David, 34, 35 buffalo, return of, 78, 141 Burnham, Clara Louise, Sweet Clover: A Romance Iff the White Ciry, 43 Butler,Jon, 3 capitalism, 137-38, 152 n.38, 182 n.83 Carby, Hazel, 86 Carpenter,Jane, 106 Carr, Brian, 92-93 Castronovo, Russ, 41 ceremony, and art, 102, 103, 109-10 Charleston, Steve, 133 Chase-Riboud, Barbara, 105 Chatelain, Heli, 21 Chesnutt, Charles, 64-70; The Colonel's Dream, 69; The Conjure Woman, 64-69; -, "The Goophered Grapevine," 68; -, "The Marked Tree," 67-68; -,"Po' Sandy," 65; "Dave's Neckliss," 67, 68; "Dumb Witness," 69; "Trobe's Tribulations" in Southern Workman, 68 Chireau, Yvonne, 35 Christy, David, A Lecture on Afiican Civilization, Including aBrief Outline Iff the Social...
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