The Resource Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea : Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols, Rebecca K. Jager
Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea : Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols, Rebecca K. Jager
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- Summary
- The first Europeans to arrive in North America's various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known female cultural intermediaries -- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea -- examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time. Well before their first contact with Europeans or Anglo-Americans, the three women's societies of origin -- the Aztecs of Central Mexico (Malinche), the Powhatans of the mid-Atlantic coast (Pocahontas), and the Shoshones of the northern Rocky Mountains (Sacagawea) -- were already dealing with complex ethnic tensions and social change. Using wit and diplomacy learned in their Native cultures and often assigned to women, all three individuals hoped to benefit their own communities by engaging with the new arrivals. Drawing on history, anthropology, ethnohistory, and oral tradition, Jager demonstrates their shrewd use of diplomacy and fulfillment of social roles and responsibilities in pursuit of their communities' future advantage. Jager then delineates the symbolic roles that Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea came to play in national creation stories. Mexico and the United States have molded their legends to justify European colonization and condemn it, to explain Indian defeat and celebrate indigenous prehistory. After hundreds of years, Malinche, Pocahontas and Sacagawea are still relevant. They are the symbolic mothers of the Americas, but more than that, they fulfilled crucial roles in times of pivotal and enduring historical change. Understanding their stories brings us closer to understanding our own histories
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 356 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Feminizing the story of European expansion
- pt. I. Indian women in life
- Indigenous social landscapes prior to contact
- First encounters
- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea as cultural intermediaries
- Intimate frontiers
- pt. II. Indian women in myth
- Malinche
- Pocahontas
- Sacagawea
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780806155944
- Label
- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea : Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols
- Title
- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea
- Title remainder
- Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca K. Jager
- Title variation
- Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols
- Subject
-
- Case studies
- Indian interpreters
- Indian interpreters -- Case studies
- Indian women
- Indian women -- Biography
- Indianerin
- Indians of Mexico -- Government relations
- Indians of Mexico -- Government relations
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Malinal
- Marina, approximately 1505-approximately 1530
- Marina, approximately 1505-approximately 1530 -- Influence
- Mexiko
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, Mexican
- Biography
- Nationalbewusstsein
- Pocahontas, -1617
- Pocahontas, -1617 -- Influence
- Pocahontas, ca. um 1595-1617
- Sacagawea
- Sacagawea -- Influence
- Sacagawea, 1786-1884
- Symbol
- USA
- Verhandlung
- Weiße
- Whites -- Relations with Indians
- Whites -- Relations with Indians
- National characteristics, Mexican
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The first Europeans to arrive in North America's various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known female cultural intermediaries -- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea -- examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time. Well before their first contact with Europeans or Anglo-Americans, the three women's societies of origin -- the Aztecs of Central Mexico (Malinche), the Powhatans of the mid-Atlantic coast (Pocahontas), and the Shoshones of the northern Rocky Mountains (Sacagawea) -- were already dealing with complex ethnic tensions and social change. Using wit and diplomacy learned in their Native cultures and often assigned to women, all three individuals hoped to benefit their own communities by engaging with the new arrivals. Drawing on history, anthropology, ethnohistory, and oral tradition, Jager demonstrates their shrewd use of diplomacy and fulfillment of social roles and responsibilities in pursuit of their communities' future advantage. Jager then delineates the symbolic roles that Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea came to play in national creation stories. Mexico and the United States have molded their legends to justify European colonization and condemn it, to explain Indian defeat and celebrate indigenous prehistory. After hundreds of years, Malinche, Pocahontas and Sacagawea are still relevant. They are the symbolic mothers of the Americas, but more than that, they fulfilled crucial roles in times of pivotal and enduring historical change. Understanding their stories brings us closer to understanding our own histories
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jager, Rebecca K.
- Dewey number
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- 305.48/89700922
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E89
- LC item number
- .J36 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Marina
- Pocahontas
- Sacagawea
- Marina
- Pocahontas
- Pocahontas
- Sacagawea
- Malinal
- Sacagawea
- Indian women
- Indian interpreters
- Whites
- Indians of Mexico
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, Mexican
- Indian interpreters
- Indian women
- Indians of Mexico
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, Mexican
- Whites
- Verhandlung
- Weiße
- Nationalbewusstsein
- Symbol
- Indianerin
- USA
- Mexiko
- Label
- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea : Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols, Rebecca K. Jager
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-342) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Feminizing the story of European expansion -- pt. I. Indian women in life -- Indigenous social landscapes prior to contact -- First encounters -- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea as cultural intermediaries -- Intimate frontiers -- pt. II. Indian women in myth -- Malinche -- Pocahontas -- Sacagawea -- Conclusion
- Control code
- ocn908146072
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 356 pages
- Isbn
- 9780806155944
- Lccn
- 2015015811
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780806148519
- (OCoLC)908146072
- Label
- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea : Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols, Rebecca K. Jager
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-342) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Feminizing the story of European expansion -- pt. I. Indian women in life -- Indigenous social landscapes prior to contact -- First encounters -- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea as cultural intermediaries -- Intimate frontiers -- pt. II. Indian women in myth -- Malinche -- Pocahontas -- Sacagawea -- Conclusion
- Control code
- ocn908146072
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 356 pages
- Isbn
- 9780806155944
- Lccn
- 2015015811
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780806148519
- (OCoLC)908146072
Subject
- Case studies
- Indian interpreters
- Indian interpreters -- Case studies
- Indian women
- Indian women -- Biography
- Indianerin
- Indians of Mexico -- Government relations
- Indians of Mexico -- Government relations
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Malinal
- Marina, approximately 1505-approximately 1530
- Marina, approximately 1505-approximately 1530 -- Influence
- Mexiko
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, Mexican
- Biography
- Nationalbewusstsein
- Pocahontas, -1617
- Pocahontas, -1617 -- Influence
- Pocahontas, ca. um 1595-1617
- Sacagawea
- Sacagawea -- Influence
- Sacagawea, 1786-1884
- Symbol
- USA
- Verhandlung
- Weiße
- Whites -- Relations with Indians
- Whites -- Relations with Indians
- National characteristics, Mexican
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