Recently added articles from The American Indian Quarterly:
"Lost and lonesome": literary reflections on museums and the roles of relics.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In Gerald Vizenor's screenplay and in the film Harold of Orange (1984) Harold, the trickster word-warrior, stands on a glass display case in the anthropology department museum (presumably at the University of Minnesota) and from his perch berates anthropologists as he likens the effect of ...
Memories of the Alabama Creek War, 1813-1814: U.S. governmental and native identities at the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In the past decade critical studies scholars have concentrated much of their research about memory on the examination of cultural sites, including memorials, monuments, museums, and performative historical events and festivals. (1) These discursive spaces comprise what Tamar Katriel calls ...
Cultures in collision: cosmology, jurisprudence, and religion in Tlingit territory.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The term first contact usually conjures up an image of a group of European soldiers landing on a beach in the New World, their ship anchored just offshore, while a large group of Natives approaches the soldiers. On both sides there is caution but also curiosity. Beyond the physical ...
Indian gaming in South Dakota: conflict in public policy.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Legal gaming on Indian reservations has increased dramatically since the 1987 landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court in California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians. (1) In this case the Supreme Court upheld by a 6-3 vote the right under federal law for Indians to run ...
Lois Beardslee. The Women's Warrior Society.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lois Beardslee. The Women's Warrior Society. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. 160 pp. Cloth $29.95, paper $16.95. Lois Beardslee has a thing for the formally educated, libraries, Chevy cars, and a whole litany of observable truths about being on the "Other" side of ...
Clarissa W. Confer. Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Clarissa W. Confer. Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. 240 pp. Cloth $49.95, eBook $54.95. Clarissa Confer provides a well-written overview of the culture history and material culture of the American Indian groups who ...
Andrea Smith. Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Andrea Smith. Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 292 pp. Paper, $23.95. Andrea Smith's (Cherokee) latest book may be seen as a sequel to her much-lauded 2005 work, Conquest: Sexual Violence ...
Joanne McCloskey. Living through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's Lives.(Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Joanne McCloskey. Living through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's Lives. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. 240 pp. Paper, $24.95. Louise Lamphere. Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico ...
From the editor.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009 ... We begin volume 33 with some changes to our editorial team, which I will take a moment to outline. First, I would like to thank our outgoing book review editor, Jay Vest, for his years of service to American Indian Quarterly. Jay has devoted many hours to AIQ, and we appreciate his ...
American Indian studies: intellectual navel gazing or academic discipline?(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The academic field of Native American/American Indian studies (NAS/AIS) has been and largely remains a product of political forces at the national level and now at the tribal level. As Gerald Vizenor once said, being an American Indian today is a political act in and of itself. The very ...
Contemporary American Indian studies.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In his keynote address to the Fifth Annual American Indian Studies Consortium in 2005 David Wilkins began by commenting on earlier attempts to formally organize such a gathering in ways that might help establish and accredit Indian studies programs. He said he had the sense that the thrust ...
From berries to orchards: tracing the history of berrying and economic transformation among Lake Superior Ojibwe.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In 1938 Florina Denomie, an Ojibwe woman from Bad River Reservation, wrote an essay for the Works Progress Administration's Chippewa Indian Historical Project. She stated: <Pre>One of the leading industries of the Chippewas of Lake Superior isblueberry picking. This, of ...
Will Rogers's radio: race and technology in the Cherokee Nation.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In March 1935, a few months before his death in an airplane crash, Will Rogers (1879-1935) wrote to his first cousin Lizzie Tripplett. At the time Lizzie was a patient at the Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma, the first Indian hospital in the country. In fact, the building of the ...
"An equal interest in the soil": creek small-scale farming and the work of nationhood, 1866-1889.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... One day in 1866 the McIntosh family learned that they were free. Prior to that day Jackson and Hagar McIntosh and their eight children had labored for their owner, Roley McIntosh. He was the micco (generally translated as "king") of the town of Coweta in the Creek Nation in present-day ...
Culturalism and its discontents: David Treuer's Native American fiction: a user's manual.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I We usually date the beginnings of Native American fiction from John Rollin Ridge's rather odd novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit, published in 1854; the first Native American novel by a woman is S. Alice Callahan's Wynema, a ...
Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora, eds. Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora, eds. Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. 216 pp. Paper, $23.95. Although one does not usually find ...
Carolyn O'Bagy Davis. Hopi Summer: Letters from Ethel to Maud.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Carolyn O'Bagy Davis. Hopi Summer: Letters from Ethel to Maud. Tucson, AZ: Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2007. 160 pp. Paper, $15.95. In January 1927 Carey E. Melville, a mathematics professor at Clark University in Worchester, Massachusetts, his wife, Maud, and their three children ...
Oaths of office in tribal constitutions: swearing allegiance, but to whom?(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Indigenous nations inhabiting the lands now known as North America were, by definition, the original sovereign political entities and have existed for untold millennia. Each Native nation, whether a small fishing village in the Northwest, an agricultural community in the Southwest, or a ...
The varieties of religious experience: baptized Indians at Mission San Francisco de Asis, 1776-1821.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... On March 2, 1811, seventeen Coast Miwok--speaking Indians from the Omiomi tribelet accepted baptism at Mission San Francisco de Asis, the Spanish Catholic mission located on the northern end of the San Francisco peninsula in Alta California. (1) Among the seventeen were Juniqueme and his ...
Native nationality and the contemporary queer: tradition, sexuality, and history in Drowning in Fire.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... On May 13, 2004, two Cherokee women, Kathy Reynolds and Dawn McKinley, sought and received a marriage license from the deputy court clerk of the Cherokee Nation. They were the first to take advantage of the fact that the Cherokee legal code defined marriage in gender-neutral terms. On May ...