"The White Man does not understand the Indian for the reason that
he does not understand America. He is too far removed from its
formative process. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet
grasped rock and soil." The words of Lakota writer Luther Standing
Bear foretold the current debate on the value of Native American
studies in higher education. Studying Native America addresses for
the first time in a comprehensive way the place of this critical
discipline in the university curriculum. Leading scholars in
anthropology, demography, English and literature, history, law,
social work, linguistics, public health, psychology, and sociology
have come together to explore what Native American studies has
been, what it is, and what it may be in the future. The book's
thirteen contributors and editor Russell Thornton, stress the
frequent incompatibility of traditional academic teaching methods
with the social and cultural concerns that gave rise to the field
of Native American studies. Beginning with the intellectual and
institutional history of Native American studies, the book examines
its literature, language, historical narratives, and anthropology.
The volume discusses the effects on Native American studies of law
and constitutionalism; cosmology, epistemology, and religion;
identity; demography; colonialism and post-colonialism; science and
technology; and repatriation of human remains and cultural objects.
Contributors to Studying Native America include Raymond J.
DeMallie, Bonnie Duran, Eduardo Duran, Raymond D. Fogelson, Clara
Sue Kidwell, Kerwin Lee Klein, Melissa L. Meyer, John H. Moore,
Peter Nabokov, Katheryn Shanley, C. Matthew Snipp, Rennard
Strickland, Russell Thornton, J. Randolph Valentine, Robert Allen
Warrior, Richard White, and Maria Yellowhorse-Braveheart. The book
is sponsored in part by the Social Science Research Council.
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