Recently added articles from Studies in American Indian Literatures:
FROM THE EDITORS
Oct 01, 2008; ... Daniel and I wanted to take this opportunity to encourage you to let us know what you have thought of our first three issues - with the themed cluster on Indigenous and Queer Studies, the review essays on the new collection Reasoning Together, and the articles on Linda Hogan, D'Arcy McNickle, ...
Writing for Connection
Oct 01, 2008; ... Cross-Cultural Understanding in James Welch's Historical Fiction In Fools Crow and The Heartsong of Charging Elk, James Welch examines the social and cultural links between Natives and non-Natives, demonstrating how different peoples and cultures intersect in both positive and negative ...
The Violence of Collection
Oct 01, 2008; ... Indian Killer's Archives At the close of Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer, in a final chapter titled "Creation Story," a killer carries a backpack containing, among other things, "dozens of owl feathers, a scrapbook, and two bloody scalps in a plastic bag" (419). Readers schooled in the ...
Charles Alexander Eastman's From the Deep Woods to Civilization and the Shaping of Native Manhood
Oct 01, 2008; ... Malea Powell has argued that Charles Alexander Eastman "imagined new possibilities for Native resistance and survival in the face of violent assimilation strategies" (404-5). To Eastman, Natives had little choice but to acculturate to white society if they were going to resist white domination ...
Story Words: An Interview with Richard Wagamese
Oct 01, 2008; ... Storyteller, novelist, journalist, and critic Richard Wagamese was born in 1955 in northwestern Ontario and is from the Wabaseemoong First Nation. Wagamese's literary and fictional writings blend traditional Ojibway oral storytelling style with the highly literate genre conventions of the novel ....
Ragina
Oct 01, 2008; ... What was she doing out of context . . . the story, history, the fact, fact that Native women did not marry those pinked faced pinched noses for any reason . . . surely not in love especially as he was just off the boat she was not even a captive ...
Indians
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Depression Franklin Delano Roosevelt help is on the way with the C. C. C. and Social Security He didn't bring the men and families down from Kanawake but on arrival of the two men and two women and ...
Spirits
Oct 01, 2008; ... I am typing poems old poems for a new collection of some pieces first published 40 years or so ago; many I don't remember many probably shouldn't have been printed; and as I sit here to the machine ...
Tell Me, Grandmother: Traditions, Stories, and Cultures of Arapaho People
Oct 01, 2008; ... Virginia Sutter. Tell Me, Grandmother: Traditions, Stories, and Cultures of Arapaho People. Boulder: UP of Colorado, 2004. x + 149 pp. Brian Hosmer, Newberry Library and University of Illinois at Chicago I learned to tolerate white culture because it was my growing up environment ...
Powwow
Oct 01, 2008; ... Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter, and Gary H. Dunham, eds. Powwow. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2005. 309 pp. Janis (Jan) Johnson, University of Idaho As the first collection of essays devoted solely to powwow culture, the goal of this offering is to explore the dynamism of the ...
Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian's Quest for Justice
Oct 01, 2008; ... Lawney L. Reyes. Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indians Quest for Justice. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2006. xii + 179 pp. Carrie Louise Sheffield, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Beginning with a brief discussion of Sin Aikst tribal history, and following with a focus on the role of ...
Potawatomi Tracks (The Ballad of Vietnam and Other Stories)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Larry Mitchell. Potawatomi Tracks (The Ballad of Vietnam and Other Stories). San Francisco: Heliographica P., 2005. 134 pp. Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge Potawatomi Tracks is the story of Larry Mitchell's personal triumph after years of struggling with ...
Evening at the Warbonnet and Other Plays
Oct 01, 2008; ... Bruce King. Evening at the Warbonnet and Other Plays. Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies, 2006. 323 pp. Jane Haladay, University of North Carolina, Pembroke With its roots in indigenous traditions of oratory, ceremony, and communal genesis and performance, American Indian ...
The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America
Oct 01, 2008; ... Ed White. The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2005. 236 pp. Keith Lawrence, Brigham Young University A revisionist consideration of colonial dynamics undergirding the American Revolution, Ed White's The ...
George Flett: Ledger Art
Oct 01, 2008; ... George Flett. George Flett: Ledger Art. Spokane, WA: New Media Ventures, 2007. 81 pp. Richard Pearce, Wheaton College George Flett lives on the Spokane Reservation, where his family has played a prominent role in tribal affairs for many generations. His mother, a well-known ...
FROM THE EDITORS
Jul 01, 2008; ... The creative and scholarly contributions to this issue exemplify the strong health of contemporary Indigenous literary studies and the energetic conversations between diverse communities, texts, eras, ideas, and methods. The two critical essays take up canonical texts in the field-Linda Hogan's ...
A Narrative of Motives: Solicitation and Confession in Linda Hogan's Power
Jul 01, 2008; ... I confess. This is no simple statement. It is a declaration, an illocutionary act, and a technique for the production of truth.1 It is an ecstatic utterance, outside the usual stasis of statement, residing within what Michel Foucault calls a "ritual of discourse" (61). Confession is not made to ...
"You can't run away nowadays": Redefining Modernity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded
Jul 01, 2008; ... When D'Arcy McNickle (1904-77) began work on his first novel in the 1920$, he hoped he would become part of the circle of modernist writers.1 Inclusion in the American literary canon and incorporation into the greater American culture were not (and still are not) the goals for many Native ...
Removals
Jul 01, 2008; ... Let facts show how the benevolent design has been prosecuted. -Memorial of Protest of the Cherokee Nation June 22, 1836 I. VIETNAM each soldier was assigned a family to "round up" but Uncle Billy's was the last out of the village and, fearing ...
A Conversation with David Treuer
Jul 01, 2008; ... David Treuer is the author of three novels, Little, The Hiawatha, and most recently The Translation of Dr. Apelles. He has also authored a provocative book of critical essays entitled Native American Fiction: A User's Manual. Treuer won a Washington Post Critics Choice Award in 2006, and in ...