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The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at
issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no
single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this
fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law,
archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics, geography, sciences,
and gender studies, among others, in order to make sense of the
Indigenous experience. Covering both Canada's First Nations and the
Native American tribes of the United States, and alluding to the
work being done in indigenous studies through the rest of the
world, the volume reflects the critical mass of scholarship that
has developed in Indigenous Studies over the past decade, and
highlights the best new work that is emerging in the field. The
World of Indigenous North America is a book for every scholar in
the field to own and refer to often. Contributors: Chris Andersen,
Joanne Barker, Duane Champagne, Matt Cohen, Charlotte Cote, Maria
Cotera, Vincente M. Diaz, Elena Maria Garcia, Hanay Geiogamah,
Carole Goldberg, Brendan Hokowhitu, Sharon Holland, LeAnne Howe,
Shari Huhndorf, Jennie Joe, Ted Jojola, Daniel Justice, K. Tsianina
Lomawaima, Jose Antonio Lucero, Tiya Miles, Felipe Molina, Victor
Montejo, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Val Napoleon, Melissa Nelson,
Jean M. O'Brien, Amy E. Den Ouden, Gus Palmer, Michelle Raheja,
David Shorter, Noenoe K. Silva, Shannon Speed, Christopher B.
Teuton, Sean Teuton, Joe Watkins, James Wilson, Brian Wright-McLeod
The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at
issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no
single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this
fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law,
archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics, geography, sciences,
and gender studies, among others, in order to make sense of the
Indigenous experience. Covering both Canada's First Nations and the
Native American tribes of the United States, and alluding to the
work being done in indigenous studies through the rest of the
world, the volume reflects the critical mass of scholarship that
has developed in Indigenous Studies over the past decade, and
highlights the best new work that is emerging in the field. The
World of Indigenous North America is a book for every scholar in
the field to own and refer to often. Contributors: Chris Andersen,
Joanne Barker, Duane Champagne, Matt Cohen, Charlotte Cote, Maria
Cotera, Vincente M. Diaz, Elena Maria Garcia, Hanay Geiogamah,
Carole Goldberg, Brendan Hokowhitu, Sharon Holland, LeAnne Howe,
Shari Huhndorf, Jennie Joe, Ted Jojola, Daniel Justice, K. Tsianina
Lomawaima, Jose Antonio Lucero, Tiya Miles, Felipe Molina, Victor
Montejo, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Val Napoleon, Melissa Nelson,
Jean M. O'Brien, Amy E. Den Ouden, Gus Palmer, Michelle Raheja,
David Shorter, Noenoe K. Silva, Shannon Speed, Christopher B.
Teuton, Sean Teuton, Joe Watkins, James Wilson, Brian Wright-McLeod
"A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that
every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory" -Robert
Warrior, from the Foreword Many people learn about Indigenous
politics only through the most controversial and confrontational
news: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's efforts to block the Dakota
Access Pipeline, for instance, or the battle to protect Bears Ears
National Monument in Utah, a site sacred to Native peoples. But
most Indigenous activism remains unseen in the mainstream-and so,
of course, does its significance. J. Kehaulani Kauanui set out to
change that with her radio program Indigenous Politics. Issue by
issue, she interviewed people who talked candidly and in an
engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing
Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist.
Collected here, these conversations speak with clear and compelling
voices about a range of Indigenous politics that shape everyday
life. Land desecration, treaty rights, political status, cultural
revitalization: these are among the themes taken up by a broad
cross-section of interviewees from across the United States and
from Canada, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Australia, and New
Zealand. Some speak from the thick of political action, some from a
historical perspective, others from the reaches of Indigenous
culture near and far. Writers, like Comanche Paul Chaat Smith,
author of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, expand on
their work-about gaming and sovereignty, for example, or protecting
Native graves, the reclamation of land, or the erasure of Indian
identity. These conversations both inform and engage at a moment
when their messages could not be more urgent. Contributors: Jessie
Little Doe Baird (Mashpee Wampanoag), Omar Barghouti, Lisa Brooks
(Abenaki), Kathleen A. Brown-Perez (Brothertown Indian Nation),
Margaret "Marge" Bruchac (Abenaki), Jessica Cattelino, David
Cornsilk (Cherokee Nation), Sarah Deer (Muskogee Creek Nation),
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota), Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga
Nation), Hone Harawira (Ngapuhi Nui Tonu), Suzan Shown Harjo
(Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), Rashid Khalidi, Winona LaDuke
(White Earth Ojibwe), Maria LaHood, James Luna (Luiseno), Aileen
Moreton-Robinson (Quandamooka), Chief Mutawi Mutahash (Many Hearts)
Marilynn "Lynn" Malerba (Mohegan), Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape),
Jean M. O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole
Osorio (Kanaka Maoli), Steven Salaita, Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche),
Circe Sturm (Mississippi Choctaw descendant), Margo Tamez (Lipan
Apache), Chief Richard Velky (Schaghticoke), Patrick Wolfe.
This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native
critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes
contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual
literary representation.Janice Acoose infuses a Cree reading of
Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language;
Lisa Brooks looks at eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century
Native writers and discovers little-known networks among them; Tol
Foster argues for a regional approach to Native studies that can
include unlikely subjects such as Will Rogers; LeAnne Howe creates
a fictional character, Embarrassed Grief, whose problematic
authenticity opens up literary debates; Daniel Heath Justice takes
on two prominent critics who see mixed-blood identities differently
than he does in relation to kinship; Phillip Carroll Morgan
uncovers written Choctaw literary criticism from the 1830s on the
subject of oral performance; Kimberly Roppolo advocates an
intertribal rhetoric that can form a linguistic foundation for
criticism. Cheryl Suzack situates feminist theories within Native
culture with an eye to applying them to subjugated groups across
Indian Country; Christopher B. Teuton organizes Native literary
criticism into three modes based on community awareness; Sean
Teuton opens up new sites for literary performance inside prisons
with Native inmates; Robert Warrior wants literary analysis to
consider the challenges of eroticism; Craig S. Womack introduces
the book by historicizing book-length Native-authored criticism
published between 1986 and 1997, and he concludes the volume with
an essay on theorizing experience. Reasoning Together proposes
nothing less than a paradigm shift in American Indian literary
criticism, closing the gap between theory and activism by situating
Native literature in real-life experiences and tribal histories. It
is an accessible collection that will suit a wide range of courses
- and will educate and energize anyone engaged in criticism of
Native literature.
"A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that
every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory" -Robert
Warrior, from the Foreword Many people learn about Indigenous
politics only through the most controversial and confrontational
news: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's efforts to block the Dakota
Access Pipeline, for instance, or the battle to protect Bears Ears
National Monument in Utah, a site sacred to Native peoples. But
most Indigenous activism remains unseen in the mainstream-and so,
of course, does its significance. J. Kehaulani Kauanui set out to
change that with her radio program Indigenous Politics. Issue by
issue, she interviewed people who talked candidly and in an
engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing
Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist.
Collected here, these conversations speak with clear and compelling
voices about a range of Indigenous politics that shape everyday
life. Land desecration, treaty rights, political status, cultural
revitalization: these are among the themes taken up by a broad
cross-section of interviewees from across the United States and
from Canada, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Australia, and New
Zealand. Some speak from the thick of political action, some from a
historical perspective, others from the reaches of Indigenous
culture near and far. Writers, like Comanche Paul Chaat Smith,
author of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, expand on
their work-about gaming and sovereignty, for example, or protecting
Native graves, the reclamation of land, or the erasure of Indian
identity. These conversations both inform and engage at a moment
when their messages could not be more urgent. Contributors: Jessie
Little Doe Baird (Mashpee Wampanoag), Omar Barghouti, Lisa Brooks
(Abenaki), Kathleen A. Brown-Perez (Brothertown Indian Nation),
Margaret "Marge" Bruchac (Abenaki), Jessica Cattelino, David
Cornsilk (Cherokee Nation), Sarah Deer (Muskogee Creek Nation),
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota), Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga
Nation), Hone Harawira (Ngapuhi Nui Tonu), Suzan Shown Harjo
(Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), Rashid Khalidi, Winona LaDuke
(White Earth Ojibwe), Maria LaHood, James Luna (Luiseno), Aileen
Moreton-Robinson (Quandamooka), Chief Mutawi Mutahash (Many Hearts)
Marilynn "Lynn" Malerba (Mohegan), Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape),
Jean M. O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole
Osorio (Kanaka Maoli), Steven Salaita, Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche),
Circe Sturm (Mississippi Choctaw descendant), Margo Tamez (Lipan
Apache), Chief Richard Velky (Schaghticoke), Patrick Wolfe.
This volume brings together for the first time the known writings
of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader,
intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The
largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles
Eastman (Santee Sioux; 1858-1939), Occom's writings offer
unparalleled views into a Native American intellectual and cultural
universe in the era of colonialization and the early United States.
His letters, sermons, journals, prose, petitions, and hymns--many
of them never before published--document the emergence of pantribal
political consciousness among the Native peoples of New England as
well as Native efforts to adapt Christianity as a tool of
decolonialization. Presenting previously unpublished and newly
recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available
Native American writing from before 1800.
In a contentious field characterized by divergence of opinion,
"American Indian Literary Nationalism" intervenes in recent
controversial debates on the role of hybridity, suggesting common
sense strategies rooted in the material realities of various
communities. These essays deal with issues the authors have been
wrestling with throughout their careers.
Jace Weaver, Craig Womack, and Robert Warrior, assert being a
"nationalist" is a legitimate perspective from which to approach
Native American literature and criticism. They consider such a
methodology not only defensible but also crucial to supporting
Native national sovereignty and self-determination, an important
goal of Native American studies, generally.
However, the authors do not believe the nationalism suggested in
"American Indian Literary Nationalism" is the only possible
approach to Native literature. Each invites Natives and non-Native
allies who support tribal national sovereignty and nationalist
readings of Native literature to join the discussion.
With this writing, each author acknowledges and honors the
foundational contribution of Simon Ortiz in his 1981 "MELUS" essay,
"Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in
Nationalism." It has been over thirty-five years since academe has
accepted the legitimacy of American Indian literature. Weaver,
Warrior, and Womack now call for more Native voices to articulate
literary criticism and for clearer thinking about what links the
literature to Native communities.
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