“They won't do it the way I can”: Haudenosaunee relationality and goodness in Native American postsecondary student support.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Waterman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Postsecondary Student ◽  
The Way

Queering America: Joy Harjo’s Vision of Radical Contingency

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Burbick
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Way

Joan Burbick reads Jay Harjo from a queering as well as post-colonial perspective, analyzing the way in which normative discourses of social cohesion are questioned and re-formulated from the vantage point of Native American categories such as the berdache. Harjo's vision promotes radical contingency and a seemingly spiritual notion of transference.

Sovereignty, networks, and norms

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-567
Author(s):  
Stephen Deets
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Ethnic Mobilization ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
The Way

Despite considerable scholarly work on ethnic mobilization, less attention has been paid to explicitly examining how differing notions of the state undergird our analysis and normative approaches. As the title of Ted Gurr's Peoples versus States reminds us, the state is central to these processes. Similarly, there seems to be widespread, yet little discussed, disagreement on the proper role of politics in ethno-politics. In other words, at what point do we shrug our shoulders and say, “minority X lost this political fight and that's the way democratic politics functions”? The three books here focus on vastly different topics (international minority rights norms, Native American struggles, and the Holy Roman Empire's decline), but in reading them together it is striking how their notions of the state and politics lead us to varying conclusions about the possibilities for minorities.

scholarly journals Politico-cultural appropriation of Native American in American Indian poetry and drama: Unflinchingly documents the halfway existence

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Shaista Malik ◽  
Samar Zakki ◽  
Dur-e-Afsha ◽  
Wajid Riaz
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
American Indians ◽  
First Century ◽  
Native American Literature ◽  
American People ◽  
Tribal Identity ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Indian Values ◽  
The Way

During the Twentieth century Native American literature evolved from anonymity into prominence by assuming a commitment to reflect the particular challenges that faced Native American people during last two centuries. Native American Literature illuminates about Native American lives, culture and how Indian values have changed from traditional tribal to mainstream ones that threatened tribal existence. The paper seeks to substantiate that this literature documents the horrible impact of brutal federal government on Indian’s lives through policies and programs designed to subject them to degrading and confining existence both on physical and mental levels. The paper also seeks to prove that the Indians in order to adapt themselves to the mainstream Euro-American ways lost their old ones along the way but could not adopt mainstream American lifestyle. At the turn of the Twenty First century, because of the coercive strategies for assimilation, American Indians residing on reservations could not become a part of mainstream America but the way back to traditionalism was also farther away and irreversible. The paper also strives to substantiate that Native American literature documents and provokes Indians to assert their tribal identity by retaining many of the tribal ways and values.

scholarly journals The Charity Hall Mission: An 1820s Boarding School for Native American Children in the Chickasaw Nation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew P Rooney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Choctaw Nation ◽  
States Government ◽  
Chickasaw Nation ◽  
American Children ◽  
The Way

This study focuses primarily on the historical and archaeological investigations of Charity Hall, a Christian mission school that operated within the Chickasaw Nation in northeastern Mississippi between 1820 and 1830. This school and others during this time were funded by the United States government through the 1819 Civilization Fund Act, so I argue that these stations served as outposts for American colonialism before the federal government shifted its Indian policy to one of removal. Additionally, I argue that it is impossible to adequately understand the operation of individual mission schools apart from their networks, which I theorize here as “missionscapes.” The historic component also, therefore, focuses on a broader missionscape that encompassed both the Chickasaw Nation and the neighboring Choctaw Nation during the 1820s and 1830s. More precisely, the historical and archaeological data marshalled here are presented to answer my primary research question: what material tools and practices did missionaries use to “civilize” Native American children and their families prior to Indian removal? One of the chief ways that Chickasaw and Choctaw children were being “civilized” by the missionaries at Charity Hall was through the use of material culture. Their lives were regimented around an alien work schedule, they were clothed in materials procured by charitable societies, and they sat around a dinner table with ceramic and metal implements produced in faraway places, some coming all the way from east Asia. The pastors used practical mastery of both educational and mechanical “arts” to civilize the children in accordance with the wishes of the United States government. Here processes of practice and materiality took on a colonial character due to their being encouraged and enforced in a context where the balance of power was shifting from the Indians to the Americans. The American elites found the Christian missionaries to be ready-made agents to “civilize” Indians and spread political influence internally within both the Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation. The mission experience, however, ultimately proved to be too costly and slow and therefore paved the way for the removal policies of the 1830s and the abandonment of the “civilization” project altogether.

scholarly journals Stolen Spirits

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kallie Nicole Hunchman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Average Consumer ◽  
American Mythology ◽  
The Way

The windigo is a Native American spirit belonging to the Algonquian tribes of North America and Canada. Although well-documented in Western literature, the windigo spirit of stories like Pet Sematary by Stephen King and “The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood are stripped of their original context and are mere stereotypes of the cultures they originate from. By looking at the depictions of windigo in these specific Western stories and in Native American beliefs, it is possible to see how stripping spirits of their original contexts is harmful to Native communities. Western appropriation has long-lasting effects on the perceptions of Native American cultures by the average consumer and even scientific communities. In this paper, I document the depictions of windigo in Native American mythology, those of Western literature, and the effects of appropriation and misrepresentation on Native communities. I analyze the way the windigo are represented in Western literature and argue that Native American spirits should belong to the cultures they originate from.

Repatriation and Erasing the Past

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Weiss ◽  
James W. Springer
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Impact Research ◽  
Indian Law ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
The Way

Engaging a longstanding controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, Repatriation and Erasing the Past takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer offer scientific and legal perspectives on the way repatriation laws impact research. Weiss discusses how anthropologists draw conclusions about past peoples through their study of skeletons and mummies and argues that continued curation of human remains is important. Springer reviews American Indian law and how it helped to shape laws such as NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). He provides detailed analyses of cases including the Kennewick Man and the Havasupai genetics lawsuits. Together, Weiss and Springer critique repatriation laws and support the view that anthropologists should prioritize scientific research over other perspectives.

Indigenous Understandings: Fusing Landscape and Skyscape

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roslyn M Frank
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Night Sky ◽  
The Way

The talk examines the relational ontology of the Native American Lenape Delaware people who form part of the larger Algonquian-speaking group of North America. It is sometimes said that in the past as people contemplated the night sky, they ended up telling stories that were meant to explain what they saw in the sky above. Certainly, there is ample proof for the existence such astral tales when viewed cross-culturally. What I discuss, however, is the way in which what the Lenape people saw and experienced on earth was projected onto the stars above along with the associated cosmovision and belief system they embraced. Instead of passive sky-watching, they were fusing together landscape and skyscape. In the case of the Lenape cosmovision discussed here I will show that it is intimately linked to the tenets of bear ceremonialism. It was a remarkable belief system that managed to weave together landscape and skyscape: what was happening on earth and experienced on a daily basis was exteriorized, given expression and importance by projecting aspects of this rich earthly belief system onto the massive sky screen above.

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Lucy
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Linguistic Relativity ◽  
Native American Languages ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way ◽  
Edward Sapir

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is a widely used label for the linguistic relativity hypothesis, that is, the proposal that the particular language we speak shapes the way we think about the world. The label derives from the names of American anthropological linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, who persuasively argued for this idea during the 1930s and 1940s – although they never actually characterized their ideas as an ’hypothesis’. In contrast to earlier European scholarship concerned with linguistic relativity, their approach was distinguished by first-hand experience with native American languages and rejection of claims for the superiority of European languages.

From performance to print, and back: Ethnopoetics as social practice in Alice Florendo's corrections to “Raccoon and his Grandmother”

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Ethnography Of Communication ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
History And Criticism ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Fundamental Tension ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn considering Dell Hymes's pioneering work on Native American texts—itself grounded in fieldwork with speakers of Kiksht (Wasco-Wishram dialect of Upper Chinookan) in the 1950s—the article documents an encounter with a Kiksht language teacher, activist, and entrepreneur, an occasion of oral literary history and criticism whose ostensible purpose is to introduce a correction into the printed record. The discourse that results—ranging across specific observations of the text at hand to more general observations about Kiksht storytelling practices and about collaborative work in “salvage” linguistics—incorporates bits and pieces of the story along the way, providing a rich opportunity to revisit a fundamental tension in the ethnopoetic work of Hymes and others: between a view grounded in folkloristic study that sees language forms-in-text as important genre characteristics, and a view (seen also in “the ethnography of communication”) that concentrates on the event-bound functionalities of discursive (and transcribable) linguistic features.

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