Recently added articles from Studies in American Indian Literatures:
FROM THE EDITORS
Oct 01, 2009; ... This spring, Jim, his editorial assistant Kirby, and I all had the opportunity to attend both the Native American Literature Symposium (NALS) and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference (NAISA). They are two very different organizations, with distinctive but connected ...
"The Injin is civilized and aint extinct no more than a rabbit"
Oct 01, 2009; ... Transformation and Transnationalism in Alexander Posey's Fus Fixico Letters GETTING A FIX ON POSEY'S IDEOLOGY Opposing narratives of Alexander Posey's death quickly set the ambivalent tone of his legacy. In short, his drowning in his beloved Oktahutche ("Sand Creek"), or North ...
"A Limited Range of Motion?": Multiculturalism, "Human Questions," and Urban Indian Identity in Sherman Alexie's Ten Little Indians
Oct 01, 2009; ... Despite the fact that more than two-thirds of American Indians live in urban areas, many readers and scholars of American Indian literature continue to associate Indigenous peoples with natural environments rather than urban ones.1 In the minds of many nonNative Americans, Indians still wear ...
A Response to Sam McKegney's "Strategies for Ethical Engagement: An Open Letter Concerning Non-Native Scholars of Native Literatures"
Oct 01, 2009; ... You fight me, you fight the Mission! Common Anishnaabe/Ojibwa battle cry in Thunder Bay, Ontario First off, I would like to thank both the editors of SAIL and literary critic Sam McKegney for asking questions about ethical engagement with Aboriginal literature that are both ...
"The corn people have a song too. It is very good"
Oct 01, 2009; ... On Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Let me begin with a short piece, set down by the anthropologist Franz Boas in the 1920s and made widely available by Jerome Rothenberg as his opening selection in Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas. Here it is, in ...