Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America

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Contents Editor’s Introduction 1 1 | Lewis H. Morgan and the Senecas 29 Elisabeth Tooker 2 | Ethnographic Deep Play: Boas, McIlwraith, and Fictive Adoption on the Northwest Coast 57 Michael E. Harkin 3 | He-Lost-a-Bet (Howanineyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan 81 William N. Fenton 4 | Effects of Adoption on the Round Lake Study 99 Mary Black-Rogers 5 | All My Relations: The Significance of Adoption in Anthropological Research 119 William K. Powers and Marla N. Powers 16 | Naming as Humanizing 141 Jay Miller 17 | Adopting Outsiders on the Lower Klamath River 159 Thomas Buckley 18 | Tell Your Sister to Come Eat 175 Anne S. Straus 19 | Friendship, Family, and Fieldwork: One Anthropologist’s Adoption by Two Tlingit Families 185 Sergei Kan 10 | What’s in a Name? Becoming a Real Person in a Yup’ik Community 219 Ann Fienup-Riordan Commentary 243 Raymond D. Fogelson List of Contributors 257 Index 263 Strangers to Relatives Toksook Bay, Nelson Island (Yupiit) Angoon (Tlingits) Sitka (Tlingits) Tsimshians Heiltsuks Bella Coolas (Nuxalks) Ft. Rupert (Kwakwaka’wakws) Colville Reservation Lushootseeds Yuroks Northern Cheyenne Reservation (Tongue River Reservation) Pine Ridge Reservation (Lakotas) Round Lake (Northern Ojibwas) Tewas Delawares Muskogees (Creeks) Allegany Reservation (Senecas) Cattaraugus Reservation (Senecas) Tonawanda Reservation (Senecas) Primary Native communities and places discussed in the text ...