Patricia Albers | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 1943 |
| Other names | Patricia C. Albers PC Albers |
| Education | Michigan State University (Master's), University of Wisconsin–Madison (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation(s) | Anthropologist, professor, writer |
| Known for | Anthropologist of Native Americans |
| Spouse | Steven M. Hall (1941–2011) |
Patricia Albers (born December 1943) is an American anthropologist and art historian, who has written and edited anthropology books about Native Americans and has been a professor of anthropology at the University of Utah. She led and participated in events to discuss and show what life had been like for Native Americans. Her research included living on a Sioux reservation and she collected oral histories of Native Americans. Albers and Beatrice Medicine collaborated and edited the book The Hidden Half: Studies or Plains Indian Women to dispel stereotypes and document the lives of women who have lived on the Plains.
Albers was born in December 1943. [1] She was married to Steven McCormick Hall, with whom they had a daughter, Shannon. [2] Steven Hall grew up and lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. [2] Albers lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1983 to 1998, when she and her husband moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] [2] Steven Hall died on March 1, 2011. [2] Albers lived in Minneapolis until 2020, or later. [1]
Albers was a graduate anthropology student at Michigan State University, where she met Beatrice Medicine. They researched and wrote articles based upon Albers' 2+1⁄2-year experience [3] [4] at Devils Lake Reservation of the Sioux in North Dakota and Medicine's research at Standing Rock Indian Reservation with the Hunkpapa Sioux in the Dakotas. They researched powwows an important social celebration. [3] Albers studied for her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the subject of her dissertation, published in 1975, was The regional system of the Devil's Lake Sioux: its structure, composition, development, and functions. [5]
By 1975, Albers was associate professor of anthropology at University of Utah. [3] [4] She received a superior teaching award at the University of Utah in 1989. [6] In 1995, Albers became the director of the American West Center at the university that advocates for Native American rights, documents the histories of native tribes, and conducts research, employing students who gain first-hand experience. [7] [8] Each year, the Center offers one scholarship to an undergraduate and another to a graduate student. The recipients use the $1,000 stipend to complete a project about society in the American West. [7] The Center has also held weekly Twighlight Talks about Native Americans. Albers was the speaker for the first talk, "Symbol, Sight, and Stereotype: A Century Changing Images of Plains Indian Nations on the Picture Postcard". [9]
Albers was the director of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis by 2002. [10] By 2018, she was professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota. [11]
In 1975, Albers advocated for an autonomous Indian Bureau that would not be subject to the agendas of political parties. Being independent, they could focus on solving ongoing problems—hunger, unemployment, high rate of tuberculosis and diabetes deaths, and welfare dependency—experienced by Native Americans. [4]
The Hidden Half: Studies or Plains Indian Women (1983), edited by Albers and Medicine, provides insight into the lives of Plains Indian women and dispels stereotypes about who they were. Albers states "that the role of a woman warrior is every bit as fitting" as for men. The portrayal of Plains Indian women is generally as "beasts of burden" and slaves. Scholarly articles were selected about women of Plains tribes over time and the opinions about the women and their roles. The lives of the women were first told by Albers and Medicine in a symposium in 1973. [3]
Albers contributed an essay for the book Women's West (1987), edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson. It is a collection of essays about how women of European, Native American, Hispanic, and Mexican descent played a role in the making of the Western United States. [12] She also contributed to the book History, Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992 (1996), edited by Jonathan D. Hill. The book explores how Indigenous and African American people managed exploitation, enslavement, and displacement by whites in the Americas. [13] Her research of the history of Native Americans of the Black Hills was published in Peter Nabokov's book Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places (2006). [14]
Albers says that "a powwow is the most important expression of the content of American Indian life", because they reinforce relationships, values, and cultural practices. Powwows range from private events within communities to large powwows open to all Native Americans. During the summer, there are powwows held every weekend across the United States. Events can include traditional dances, contests, feasts, crafts, and musical entertainment. Dancers wear elaborate garments that can take hundreds of hours to make. [15]
In 1986, she was a participating scholar in a workshop about the spiritual and cultural significance of powwow celebrations. It was funded by a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities and was held by the Multi-Cultural Center of the Southern Utah State College (now Southern Utah University). [16] In 1993, she was a keynote speaker at the University of Maine's Look at Us as a celebration for Native American month. [17]
In 1996, Albers was the speaker, along with Michael Terry who depicted the role of a man, in a replica Native American village set up at the Museum of the Mountain Man. The Pinedale Fine Arts Council sponsored the "19th Century Plains Indian" presentation to show what life was like on the Plains many years ago. [18] Albers was the keynote speaker for the conference about Blackfeet women entitled "Aakiiksi: Women" in 2002. It was sponsored by the Piegan Institute. [10]
An art historian, Albers wrote biographies of Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life [19] and the life of Tina Modotti in Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti. [20]
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
South Dakota is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota Sioux Native American tribe, which comprises a large portion of the population with nine reservations currently in the state and has historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the 17th largest by area, but the 5th least populous, and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. They are the 39th and 40th states admitted to the union; President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the statehood papers before signing them so that no one could tell which became a state first. Pierre is the state capital, and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 192,200, is South Dakota's most populous city.
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples from the Great Plains of North America. The Sioux have two major linguistic divisions: the Dakota and Lakota peoples. Collectively, they are the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, or "Seven Council Fires". The term "Sioux", an exonym from a French transcription ("Nadouessioux") of the Ojibwe term "Nadowessi", can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nation's many language dialects.
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.
Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her Anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking readership.
A tipi or tepee is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent generations, of canvas stretched on a framework of wooden poles. The loanword came into English usage from the Dakota language and Lakota language.
Floyd Westerman, also known as Kanghi Duta, was a Dakota Sioux musician, political activist, and actor. After establishing a career as a country music singer, later in his life he became an actor, usually depicting Native American elders in American films and television. He is also credited as Floyd Red Crow Westerman. As a political activist, he spoke and marched for Native American causes.
Pioneer Day is an official holiday celebrated on July 24 in the American state of Utah, with some celebrations taking place in regions of surrounding states originally settled by Mormon pioneers. It commemorates the entry of Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, where the Latter-day Saints settled after being forced from Nauvoo, Illinois, and other locations in the eastern United States. Parades, fireworks, rodeos, and other festivities help commemorate the event. Similar to July 4, many local and all state-run government offices and many businesses are closed on Pioneer Day.
Arikara, also known as Sahnish, Arikaree, Ree, or Hundi, are a tribe of Native Americans in North Dakota. Today, they are enrolled with the Mandan and the Hidatsa as the federally recognized tribe known as the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation.
Tina Modotti was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister. In San Francisco, Modotti worked as a seamstress, model, and theater performer and, later, moved to Los Angeles where she worked in film. She later became a photographer and essayist. In 1922 she moved to Mexico, where she became an active member of the Mexican Communist Party.
Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have historically lived on the Interior Plains of North America. While hunting-farming cultures have lived on the Great Plains for centuries prior to European contact, the region is known for the horse cultures that flourished from the 17th century through the late 19th century. Their historic nomadism and armed resistance to domination by the government and military forces of Canada and the United States have made the Plains Indian culture groups an archetype in literature and art for Native Americans everywhere.
Vittorio Vidali, also known as Vittorio Vidale, Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras, and "Comandante Carlos", was an Italian communist. After being expelled from Italy with the rise of Fascist Benito Mussolini, he went to Moscow, where he became an operative for the Soviet Comintern. He was exiled to Mexico, where he was implicated in assassination attempts of Cuban communist Julio Mella and Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Later Vidali was active in other locations, finally leading the new communist part in the Free Territory of Trieste beginning in 1947 after World War II. He later represented the community in Parliament after it was annexed by Italy.
Ella Cara Deloria, also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ, was a Yankton Dakota (Sioux) educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist. She recorded Native American oral history and contributed to the study of Native American languages. According to Cotera (2008), Deloria was "a pre-eminent expert on Dakota/Lakota/Nakota cultural religious, and linguistic practices." In the 1940s, Deloria wrote a novel titled Waterlily, which was published in 1988, and republished in 2009.
Nakota is the endonym used by those Native peoples of North America who usually go by the name of Assiniboine, in the United States, and of Stoney, in Canada.
The Crow Creek Indian Reservation, home to Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is located in parts of Buffalo, Hughes, and Hyde counties on the east bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota in the United States. It has a land area of 421.658 square miles (1,092.09 km2) and a 2000 census population of 2,225 persons. The major town and capital of the federally recognized Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is Fort Thompson.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American poet and editor. Her debut book, Dog Road Woman, won the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Diane DeCora Award. Since then, she has written five more books and edited eight anthologies. She is known for addressing issues of culture, prejudice, rights, the environment, peace, violence, abuse, and labor in her poetry and other creative works.
The culture of the U.S. state of South Dakota exhibits influences from many different sources. American Indians, the cultures of the American West and Midwest, and the customs and traditions of many of the state's various immigrant groups have all contributed to South Dakota art, music, and literature.
Beatrice Medicine was a scholar, anthropologist, and educator known for her work in the fields of Indigenous languages, cultures, and history. Medicine spent much of her life researching, teaching, and serving Native communities, primarily in the fields of bilingual education, addiction and recovery, mental health, tribal identity, and women's, children's, and LGBT community issues.
Albert White Hat was a teacher of the Lakota language, and an activist for Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta traditional culture. He translated the Lakota language for Hollywood movies, including the 1990 movie Dances with Wolves, and created a modern Lakota orthography and textbook.
JoAllyn Archambault is a cultural anthropologist with an expertise in Native American people. She is the director of the Smithsonian Institution's American Indian Program. Born to a Sioux father and Creek mother, Archambault was raised in Sioux traditions and is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. Archambault has made a great contribution to anthropology by providing an insider's perspective to her research on Native American people.
Selma Walker was an American social worker and the founder and director of the Native American Center of Columbus, Ohio. She was a Dakota of Santee Dakota and Sisseton Dakota ancestry, and a "tribal member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota", according to the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
