Recently added articles from The American Indian Quarterly:
Fractured relations at home: the 1953 Termination Act's Effect on Tribal Relations throughout Southern California Indian Country.(Special Issue: Working from Home in American Indian History)
Sep 22, 2009; Daly, Heather Ponchetti ... Indians who oppose termination [should not] be terminated until problems of surveys, land divisions, water rights, mineral rights, and liens on Indian allotments and lands are solved. Max Mazzetti (Luiseno, Rincon), "Some Points to Look for in the 280 Report" Abolish ...
Ofelia Zepeda. Where Clouds Are Formed.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Fitzgerald, Stephanie ... Ofelia Zepeda. Where Clouds Are Formed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008.96 pp. Paper, $14.95. Stephanie Fitzgerald, University of Kansas Ofelia Zepeda's latest book of poetry explores what it means to be O'odham in a rapidly changing world while at the same time ...
Miriam Jorgensen, ed.: Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Pelletier, Julie ... Miriam Jorgensen, ed. Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. 384 pp. Paper, $20.00. The paucity of published research oil contemporary Indian development immediately earns this edited text attention from ...
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua, eds.: Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Bowannie, Mary K. ... Hulleah I. Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua, eds. Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2007. 71 pp. Paper, $27.95. In the preface to Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers, ...
Steven T. Newcomb. Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Tsinnajinnie, Leola ... Steven T. Newcomb. Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2008. 224 pp. Paper, $19.95. The title Steven T. Newcomb gives to his book brought to my mind playful memories of attending a Catholic Indian boarding ...
Luci Tapahonso. A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Vasquez, Lee Shenandoah ... Luci Tapahonso. A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. 128 pp. Paper, $17.95. In her sixth collection of poems and stories, 2006 Native Writers Circle Lifetime Achievement Award winner Luci Tapahonso creates a unique compilation filled ...
Rauna Kuokkanen. Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Episteme, and the Logic of the Gift.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Christensen, Rosemary Ackley ... Rauna Kuokkanen. Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Episteme, and the Logic of the Gift. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. 222 pp. Paper, $36.95. After a lengthy introduction that introduces and sets her metaphorical structure, featuring ...
Joyce M. Szabo. Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Lightfoot, Tulla ... Joyce M. Szabo. Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.197 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Eighteen days after the May 10, 1940, attack, neutral Belgium surrendered to the Nazis, beginning an occupation of that county until liberation by ...
Andrew J. Jolivette. Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity.(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; Cheek, Gary C., Jr. ... Andrew J. Jolivette. Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. 123 pp. Paper, $24.95. "Who is white?" Jolivette asks in the first chapter of his recent Louisiana Creoles, posing a controversial question that ...
Diana F. Pardue. Shared Images: The Innovative Jewelry of Yazzie Johnson & Gail Bird.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Gay, Richard ... Diana F. Pardue. Shared Images: The Innovative Jewelry of Yazzie Johnson & Gall Bird. Photographs by Craig Smith. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007. 187 pp., color and black-and-white illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. Among the most well known and innovative Native American ...
Walter Benn Michaels. The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; White, Frederick ... Walter Benn Michaels. The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006. 256 pp. Cloth, $23.00. The title of Michaels's new book is rather misleading. The cover promises to address diversity, and for the most ...
Jared Farmer. On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians and the American Landscape.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Bailey, Ruth Knight ... Jared Farmer. On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians and the American Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 472 pp. Cloth, $29.95. In his introduction to On Zion's Mount Jared Farmer claims that "geographic metaphor" best supports his twofold argument that (1) ...
Amy E. Den Ouden. Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Miller, Robert J. ... Amy E. Den Ouden. Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 304 pp. Paper, $19-95. History never embraces more than a small part of reality. Francois de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt ...
Recent dissertations.(books about Native Americans)(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 2009; Erlen, Jonathan ... APRIL 2008 Bates, Denise Eileen. "Up from obscurity: Indian rights activism and the development of tribal-state relations in the 1970s and the 1980s Deep South." PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2007. Bitsoi, LeManuel Lee. "Native leaders in the millennium: An ...