![]() | Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South Subjects: Paul Christine Navarro 1874–1946; Chitimacha Indians -- Biography; Indian women basket makers -- Louisiana -- Biography; Paul Christine Navarro 1874–1946 -- Friends and associates; Bradford Mary McIlhenny 1869–1954; Dormon Caroline 1888–1971; Chit; River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874-1946) sustained with two non-Native women at different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point into the lives of American Indians in the segregated South. DANIEL H. USNER is the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History; Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 ; and American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories. |
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