The American Indian Quarterly

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The American Indian Quarterly is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of anthropology, history, literature, religion, and arts of Native Americans. The American Indian Quarterly provides the latest developments in method and theory in Native American scholarship.

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The "lie" of the land: Native sovereignty, Indian Literary Nationalism, and early Indigenism in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.(Critical essay)

Jun 22, 2008; Holm, Sharon ... If there is anything that radically distinguishes the imagination of anti-imperialism, it is the primacy of the geographical element. Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism In Leslie Marmon Silko's 1977 novel Ceremony the "primacy of the geographical" has often been ...

Trust and survival: AWOL Hunkpapa Indian family prisoners of war at Fort Sully, 1890-1891.(Essay)

Jun 22, 2008; Wojcik, Eva ... <Pre>Camp at Fort Sully, S.D.January 27, 1891The U.S. Indian AgentStanding Rock Indian AgencyNorth Dakota Sir: The bearer, "Leaf," comes to me this morning from Spotted Eagle'scamp on the Moreau River, with request that I advise him what to...

Indigenous ownership and the emergence of U.S. liberal imperialism.(Essay)

Jun 22, 2008; Konkle, Maureen ... "Westward the Star of Empire takes its way," and whenever that Empire is held by the white man, nothing is safe or unmolested or enduring against his avidity for gain. Maris Bryant Pierce, Address on the Present Conditions and Prospects of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of North ...

Custer's last sitcom: decolonized viewing of the sitcom's "Indian".(George Armstrong Custer)(Critical essay)

Jun 22, 2008; Tahmahkera, Dustin ... We are smart enough to know books and cameras are real, television sets are real, but what they conjure up about Native people isn't very real. Darrell Kipp (Blackfeet), "Images of Native People as Seen by the Eye of the Blackbird" I'm a sit-com kid. All in the ...

Bill Anthes. Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960.(Book review)

Jun 22, 2008; Hopper, Janette K. ... Bill Anthes. Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 235 pp. Paper, $23.95. Read this book partly because it is an insightful study of modern American Indian painting but also because it illuminates our understanding of all ...

Dayna Bowker Lee and Hiram F. Gregory, eds.: The Work of Tribal Hands: Southeastern Split Cane Basketry.(Book review)

Jun 22, 2008; Bradley, Matthew T. ... Dayna Bowker Lee and Hiram F. Gregory, eds. The Work of Tribal Hands: Southeastern Split Cane Basketry. Natchitoches, LA: Northwestern State University Press, 2006. 229 pp. Paper, $30.00. This volume is the result of the Southeastern Indian Basketry Gathering held at ...

Daniel Heath Justice. Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History.(The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative)(Book review)

Jun 22, 2008; Lopenzina, Drew ... Daniel Heath Justice. Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 296 pp. Paper, $20.00. Thomas King. The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 184 pp. Cloth, ...

M. Elise Marubbio. Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film.(Book review)

Jun 22, 2008; Curtis, Judith G. ... M. Elise Marubbio. Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.312 pp. Cloth, $50.00. M. Elise Marubbio's text Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film closely examines the portrayal ...

Susan Oakdale. I Foresee My Life: The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community.(Book review)

Jun 22, 2008; Bartelt, Guillermo ... Susan Oakdale. I Foresee My Life: The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.206 pp. Paper, $24.95. The canon of a culture provides the desired concepts and categories into which individuals are socialized and ...

MariJo Moore, ed.: Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust.(Book review)

Jun 22, 2008; Christensen, Rosemary Ackley ... MariJo Moore, ed. Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. 406 pp. Paper, $16.95. This is a grueling book to read for any Native person of Turtle Island who knows something about how it went with Native ...

Marjorie Weinberg. The Real Rosebud: The Triumph of a Lakota Woman.(Book review)

Jun 22, 2008; Gardner, Susan ... Marjorie Weinberg. The Real Rosebud: The Triumph of a Lakota Woman. Foreword by Luke Yellow Robe. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 101 pp. Cloth, $19.95. Some years ago, following the paper trail of Ella Deloria's correspondence in collections scattered over the ...

Recent dissertations.(Bibliography)

Jun 22, 2008; Erlen, Jonathan ... FEBRUARY 2005 Brown, Francis Lee. "Making the Classroom a Healthy Place: The Development of Affective Competency in Aboriginal Pedagogy." PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2004. Cosgrove, Sondra Kae. "Biology, Culture, and Environment: The Struggle for ...