Saving Saukenuk: how Black Hawk won the war and opened the way to ethnic semiotics
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The Sauk Indian leader Black Hawk, in his autobiography, 'Life of Black Hawk,' used the name of his native village, Saukenuk, to dramatize a philological method of inquiry that he spatializes by appealing to cartographic semiosis. In other words, Black Hawk sought to territorialize his account of Sauk life through reference to three maps illustrating where the Black Hawk War of 1832 was fought. The maps illustrate the different philosophies held by the Sauk Indians and the US Army toward the land. In this war Black Hawk and his people were defeated when they tried to reclaim their ancestral lands.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 1991
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Clearing the air: black and white assumptions and attitudes toward the Regal Crown Air Freshener
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The Regal Crown Air Freshener, designed as a car deodorizer, has been the focus of opposing rumors for white and African Americans. Some African Americans believe the fresheners' crown design indicates sales profits benefit the Ku Klux Klan. Some members of the white community have variously linked the crowns to African-American gangs, Martin Luther King Jr., Rodney King, and Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. The crowns have become, for some whites and African Americans, symbols of each group's fears about the other.
Publication Name: Southern Folklore
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0899-594X
Year: 1996
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The "offshoot" and the "root": Natalie Curtis and black expressive culture in Africa and America
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Ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis pioneered the documentation of Native American music, and explored African American music culture. Curtis, who had received training as a concert pianist in New York City, became an advocate of preservation of indigenous musical arts in the early 1900s. She linked musical features to racial factors, and considered the black race one of the most musically gifted. Her work with Native Americans is reflected in the enduring work, 'The Indians' Book,' published in 1907.
Publication Name: Western Folklore
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0043-373X
Year: 1995
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