From Bayou Teche to Fifth Avenue
How Basket Diplomacy Saved the Chitimacha Indian Nation
Series: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies;
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 August 2026
- ISBN 9781496246691
- Binding Hardback
- See also 9780803295636
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 photographs, 3 illustrations, 3 maps, index 700
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Long description:
Daniel H. Usner offers a cultural, political, and social history of the Chitimacha Tribe in South Louisiana and its struggle for political sovereignty. Between the 1890s and 1940s, Chitimacha Indian women in South Louisiana – with extraordinary baskets they created from rivercane – strategically built a network of allies that originated in a relationship with neighboring white women and that would eventually extend across the United States. Responding resourcefully to renewed interest in their basketry largely driven by the arts and crafts market and ethnographic collection, the Chitimachas were able to contact individuals and groups far from their home who possessed potential influence on government policy. Confronting at the same time perilous threats to their land, autonomy, and even their lives in the Jim Crow South, women in this Indigenous community were inessence weaving political allies as they wove their rivercane baskets.
Besides the considerable revenue Chitimacha baskets brought to tribal coffers, the story of the Chitimacha people and their predicament gained attention as their basketry appeared in major art gallery shows and museums and was sought by art collectors. By expanding the view beyond southern Louisiana and tracking the nationwide circulation of Chitimacha basketry, From Bayou Teche to Fifth Avenue illustrates how Indigenous people in North America have creatively confronted adversity and peril with aesthetic forms of expression.
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List of Illustrations
Introduction: Christmas Morning on Bayou Teche, 1901
1. Chitimacha Diplomacy in Early Louisiana
2. Surviving in Sugarcane Country
3. Finding Mary McIlhenny Bradford
4. Christine Paul Weaves and Writes for Her People
5. Mary Bradford and Neltje Doubleday Form a Partnership
6. Craving Indian Baskets
7. In the Hands of Anthropologists
8. Going to School at Carlisle
9. Saving Chitimacha Land
10. New Deal for Indian Art
11. Turning to Caroline Dormon
Conclusion: The Legacy of Basket Diplomacy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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