We Will Always Be Here : Native Peoples on Living and Thriving in the South.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. GROWING UP INDIAN IN A SOUTHERN CONTEXT -- The Ballad of the Choctawhatchee River: Ripples from Our Past -- Muscogee Lifeways in Central Georgia -- My Family's Legacy -- Hiding My Indian Identity -- Growing up MOWA Choctaw -- The Sacrifices We Made for Our Education -- Showdown at Bayou Pointe-aux-Chien -- Racism in New Brockton, Alabama -- One Poarch Creek Family's Educational Journey over Three Generations -- We Will Forever Remain Coushatta and We Will Always Be Here -- 2. THE POLITICS OF HISTORY AND IDENTITY -- A Rebirth on the Chowan -- Speaking for My Ancestors -- From Cherokee to Chowanoke: Discovering the North Carolina Algonquians -- The Chowanoke Indian Resurgence -- Jamestown 2007: A Native American Perspective -- Eastern Creeks and the Persistence of Identity -- To Be or Not to Be a "Wannabe" -- Jim Crowfeather in Indian Country -- 3. CULTURAL GROUNDING -- In My Mother's Hands -- Nerataya: Spirit of the Deer and Passing the Gifts of the Tunica-Biloxi -- Reawakening Our Warrior Tradition -- Te-lah-nay's Wall -- In the Eye of Isaac -- Being the Indians We Were Made to Be -- Generations within the Circle -- Putting the "Community" Back into My Jena Choctaw Community -- Finding My Sense of Place in My Ancestral Homeland -- Native People Should Tell Their Own Stories -- Vpuecetv (To Dream): My Journey to Becoming Tribal Royalty -- At War with Herself: Artistic Reflections of Culture and Identity -- 4. MOVING FORWARD -- A Reflection on a Lifetime of Leadership -- Initiating Intertribal Efforts in Louisiana -- The Oil Companies Stole Our Land -- Finishing What I Started -- Looking South -- Inauguration Speech, First Woman Chief of the Mississippi Choctaw -- Building an Entrepreneurial Spirit within Tribal Nations -- Seeking Prosperity and Self-Determination.

Defining Moments -- Working Toward a Healthy Future for the Cherokee Nation -- Native Youth in Agriculture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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