Indian Women as Cultural Mediators

Kidwell, Clara Sue

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“…Indigenous people sometimes were kidnapped by European settlers, instructed in their language and values, and then sent back to act as messengers. In other cases, cultural brokers were recruited by their own communities to operate as advocates, or they were the product of policies that encouraged interracial marriages (Kidwell 1992) as well as the exchange of children (Cohen 2011). Some individuals also actively pursued the role of broker, attracted by its economic and political benefits.…”

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Preferable Minority Representatives: Brokerage and Betrayal

Severs

Jong

2018

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Preferable Minority Representatives: Brokerage and Betrayal

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2018

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“…77 Indeed, the extensive literature on women who served as economic and cultural mediators between indigenous groups and Europeans highlights the agency of women rather than their subjection in cross-cultural relations. 78 Gender tensions are also evident in the interactions between European and native men. When indigenous men, particularly elite men, were defeated in warfare, they suffered a loss of manhood.…”

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Restoring Miranda: gender and the limits of European patriarchy in the early modern Atlantic world

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Poska²

2012

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Atlantic history has become fashionable as a way of linking the histories of Europe and the Americas. However, much work in Atlantic history does little to challenge the national biases of traditional colonial and imperial history. This article argues that gender provides an important conceptual tool for a trans-imperial and comparative exploration, just as it provided important conceptual structures for all the peoples of the Atlantic world. An examination of the research on two gendered issues – work, and family and sexuality – demonstrates that while Europeans attempted to impose their ideas on the various societies that they encountered in Africa and the Americas, such attempts were rarely successful. Gender not only provides the basis for a trans-imperial analysis of the Atlantic world but also enables us to reorient our scholarly perspective in the Atlantic, highlighting the agency of non-European peoples and exposing the limits of European patriarchy.

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“…issues and refugee processes (Lindquist 2015:9-11;Brar-Josan & Yohani 2017). In Indigenous studies (Hagedorn 1988;White 2010White /1991Kidwell 1992;Szazs 1994a, b;Michie 2003) the term refers to individuals who cross cultural and social boundaries because of their own will, but obviously also in order to gain something from the mediation of valued resources that he or she does not directly control. The subheadings in my article come from "the Philosophy of life from Iijärvi", which Nuorgam passed on to researchers in the 1930s, and which T. I. Itkonen published in four articles (Itkonen 1934(Itkonen -1935.…”

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Johan Nuorgam: Sámi Squanto and cultural broker

Lehtola

2020

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The role of “Squantos” – different kinds of intermediators, cultural interpreters, or cultural brokers coming from native societies – has been important in encounters between Indigenous peoples and the outside world. The article describes a North Sámi broker, Johan Nuorgam, the founder of the Sámi museum in Inari, Finland. Due to dramatic incidents as a young man, he left his reindeer Sámi life to move to Helsinki, the Finnish capital in the beginning of 1930s. He worked as an informant for Finnish researchers, as a guide in a Finnish outdoor museum, a collector of Sámi artefacts, and an editing assistant in a North Sámi magazine. All this later made Nuorgam a pioneer in Sámi media and politics, as well as in museum management. In this article, I interrogate Nuorgam as a “Squanto”.

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Indian Women as Cultural Mediators

Cited by 38 publications

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Preferable Minority Representatives: Brokerage and Betrayal

Preferable Minority Representatives: Brokerage and Betrayal

Restoring Miranda: gender and the limits of European patriarchy in the early modern Atlantic world

Johan Nuorgam: Sámi Squanto and cultural broker

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