Community and Place: Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Globalization

Part I Globalizing Processes
Chapter 1 What is Globalization and who are Indigenous Peoples?
What is Globalization?
Who are Indigenous Peoples?
Race and Ethnicity
What is Culture?
Hegemony and Marginalization
Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Chapter 2 Humanity, the Global Species
Indigenous Peoples and Human Migration: How did Humanity become a Global Species?
Walking the Earth
Climate and Glaciation
Human Encounters with Plants and Animals
Stories of Creation
The Power of Place

Chapter 3 Community and Place: Global Influences and Hegemonic Cultures
The Medieval Warm Period in the Northern Hemisphere
Medieval Mississippians
The Viking Age of Early Medieval Europe
Catholic Hegemony in Europe
Chapter 4 1492, the Tales We Tell Ourselves, and the Columbian Exchange
Teleology and the Tales We Tell Ourselves  
1492
The Columbian Exchange
Virgin Soil Epidemics

Chapter 5 Colonialism, Capitalism, and White Supremacy
Colonialism and Capitalism
Classical Liberalism, World Systems Theory, and Globalization

Part II Indigenous Knowledge
Chapter 6 Language and Knowledge Systems
Language and Language Families
Colonialism and Language
Language, Knowledge Systems, and Language Death
Language Revitalization

Chapter 7 Indigenous Knowledge, Oral Histories, and Natural
Disasters
Indigenous Knowledge and the War of 1812
Thunderbird and Whale and Oral Traditions of the Northwest
Indigenous Peoples and Natural Disasters Today
Natural Disasters and Indigenous Self-Determination

Chapter 8 Celebration and Appropriation
What is Cultural Appropriation?
History and Everyday Cultural Appropriation
Professionalizing Cultural Superiority
Fake Histories and Forged Artifacts
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Cultural Appropriation

Chapter 9 Indigenous Peoples’ Health
Cultural Values and Health
Indigenous Communities and Communal Health
The Cherokee Harmony Ethic
Indigenous Health and Colonialism
Issues in Indigenous Healthcare
Transgenerational Trauma

Chapter 10 Native Foodways
Food and Culture
Modern Humans and Fire
Cooked Food
Agriculture
Food Crops and Sedentary Cultures
The Domestication of Animals
Three Sisters Agriculture
Corn and North American Cultures
The Columbian Exchange and the Global Food Revolution
Colonialism and Food
Food Sovereignty
Taste and Cultural Judgment

Part III Planning for Generations
Chapter 11 Culture and Generations
The Lives of Cultures
Cultural Values and Generations
“Othering” of Americans from Generation to Generation
History and Generations: Gaps, Divides, and Innovations
Action and Identity: Acting in the Interest of Culture and the Resistance to Change

Chapter 12 Cultural Revitalization
Global Capitalism and Ethnicity Incorporated
Sovereignty, Place, and Revitalization
Wilderness and Civilization
The Public Good, the Responsibility of Knowledge, and What We Don’t Know