A people who would not kneel : Panama, the United States, and the San Blas Kuna

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Label

A people who would not kneel : Panama, the United States, and the San Blas Kuna

Title remainder

Panama, the United States, and the San Blas Kuna

Statement of responsibility

James Howe

Creator

• Howe, James, 1944-

Subject

• Panama -- Ethnic relations
• Cuna Indians -- Social conditions
• Indians, Treatment of -- Panama | San Blas Coast
• Cuna Indians -- Government policy
• History
• Panama -- Foreign relations
• Cuna Indians -- History
• Panama -- Politics and government

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• The Kuna also contended with official campaigns to suppress traditional noserings and mola blouses and to impose schools, dance clubs, and modernity. In 1924 they turned to Richard Marsh, a North American explorer in search of a mythical tribe of white Indians. Marsh helped lead an armed revolt against Panama, which led to intervention by the United States and ultimately to a shipboard peace agreement that guaranteed the Kuna much of what they had fought for
• A People Who Would Not Kneel taps an unusual wealth of historical documents and native testimony to tell the extraordinary story of the Kuna struggle against outside domination during the first quarter of this century. James Howe illuminates the triangular relationship among a weak Panamanian government intent on creating a homogenous Hispanic culture; an Indian people who used the political methods of a national society to resist; and the hemisphere's dominant nation, a colonial power that had supposedly renounced colonialism. Vividly portraying the tenacious, outspoken individuals caught up in this struggle, he chronicles Kuna confrontations with black frontiersmen, foreign corporations, and competing Catholic and Protestant missionaries

Member of

• Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

972.87/004982

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

F1565.2.C8

LC item number

H694 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Smithsonian series in ethnography inquiry