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This 6 page paper gives a detailed review of the book: Parading Through History by Frederick Hoxie. Quotes are cited from the book with a clear thesis and well defined review/report on the book. Meaningful themes are portrayed. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Nation. Most books on Native Americans share the common themes of loss of heritage, lands, and language, yet in the Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in
America, by Frederick Hoxie, though there are some overtones present, this line of thinking gives way to the larger issue of a people and a culture which have managed to
survive and thrive despite the attempts at extermination. PART ONE Interestingly enough, Chief Plenty Coups words " I do not care at all what historians have to say about
the Crow Indians" have quite the prophetic ring to them more than a century later. Indeed, it would seem that history has plenty to say and report about the Crow
Nation. What seems to separate the Crow nation from other Native American nations is that they were, early on, willing to adapt their traditions to their new surroundings and
the new contacts/influences with which they were being exposed. The impact of the white man and the shuffling of the borders between Indian nations made a reshuffling of the tribes
internal structures necessary as well. Their political structures, marital and social structures, education, religious beliefs and economic circumstances all changed. What one finds most notable about this book, however,
is the fact that he does not cry foul on behalf of the beleaguered Native American. In fact, this has been overdone and now serves to have the opposite affect
in that it seems to have desensitized readers and viewers to the plight of the Native American. Instead, what Hoxie does is to show how very creative and cunning minds
managed to merge the best of the Crow nation with the best of the white mans world, without losing the integrity of culture. Hoxie does a tremendous job of discussing
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