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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTheodore Binnema is criticized for adhering too strictly to and failing to go beyond archival data. Ethnohistory requires that historical documents on primitive peoples be interpreted as influenced by the culture and...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 94, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI first collaborated with poet Natalie Diaz in 2017, when she wrote the introductory essay for a catalog I edited for Visualizing Language. This Pacific Standard Time-sponsored exhibition brought Oaxacan artist...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOnly a few chapters into S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891), believed to be the first novel by a Native American woman, (1) Wynema Harjo, the young daughter of the chief of the Muscogee (Creek)...
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From:Wicazo Sa Review (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVine Deloria Jr., a Standing Rock Sioux citizen, widely considered the leading indigenous intellectual of the past century, walked on in November 2005. Deloria spent most of his adult life in an unrelenting, prodigious,...
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From:Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAIS) (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe early twentieth-century writings and community organizing of Gertrude and Raymond Bonnin (Yankton Sioux) reveal how their cocommitment to Dakota nationhood and to all Indigenous nations informs current discussions...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMost of us recognize, intuitively if by no other means, that much of the nature poetry being written today is different from that produced by traditional nature poets such as Wordsworth or Whitman. When we read Gary...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs an American Indian writer, the writing experience can be a strange one. I guess that although Indians have been "out of sight" of the general American social scene for so long, we are not "out of mind," as the saying...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn early 1900, Richard Henry Pratt, superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, invited Zitkala-Sa to travel as a violin soloist with the Carlisle Indian School Band on their tour of the...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhat identifies a Creek work, in my mind, in addition to its authorship by a Creek person, is the depiction of geographically specific landscape and the language and stories that are born out of that landscape....
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From:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThough Pequot author William Apess has recently begun to receive heightened critical attention, critics have been slow to examine his longest work, Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA people is not defeated until the hearts of its women Are on the ground. Traditional Cheyenne saying In novels such as Winter in the Blood, The Indian Lawyer, and The Death of Jim Loney, James Welch has painted...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn his autobiographical book, The Middle Five, Omaha informant and ethnographer Francis LaFlesche relates a simple scene redolent with meaning. The book focuses on LaFlesche's experiences at the mission school he...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRunning on the Edge of the Rainbow: Laguna Stories and Poems, a video film issued in 1978 by the University of Arizona as part of the series Native Literature from the American Southwest, features a combination of...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 77, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Jake imagined the still shadow of the trout, like a dark flame, finning down there in the current and then the shy, circling rise of the fish. A communication between worlds, a seduction of life from one realm into...
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From:Wicazo Sa Review (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION The postindian simulations are the core of survivance, the new stories of tribal courage. --Gerald Vizenor, Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance Against a cold February wind I walked...
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From:Wicazo Sa Review (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDuring one of the telephone conversations we used to have, Uncle Vine admonished me to tackle federal Indian law from my perspective, so I did. In "Making Sense of Federal Indian Law" (Wicazo Sa Review 20, no. 1 [Spring...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 26, Issue 4)Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, grew up on a reservation surrounded by poverty, alcoholism, and disease, and, against the odds, emerged to become a scintillating, multifaceted author, voted by both The...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWynema: A Child of the Forest (1891), a recently rediscovered and republished novel by the Muscogee writer S. Alice Callahan, has been attracting scholarly attention for a number of reasons.(1) It may be the first novel...
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From:Iris: A Journal About WomenPeer-ReviewedBorn under the stars of Tennessee, poet, essayist, and activist Awiakra (as she prefers to be called) had a childhood suffused in the glow and shadow of the nearby Oak Ridge atomic research facility. Her writing traces...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 91, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn Spring 1992 World Literature Today published a special issue entitled "From this World: Contemporary American Indian Literature." The issue released just before Returning the Gift, a historic Native writers'...