Disrupting a Story of Loss: Charles Eastman and Nicholas Black Elk Narrate Survivance

Lisa Tatonetti

doi:10.1353/wal.2004.0011

Disrupting a Story of Loss: Charles Eastman and Nicholas Black Elk Narrate Survivance

Western American Literature ◽

10.1353/wal.2004.0011 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 279-312 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Lisa Tatonetti

Keyword(s):

Black Elk ◽

Charles Eastman

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THE INDIGENOUS REDEMPTION OF LIBERAL UNIVERSALISM

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s1479244314000766 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 579-603 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

TIM ROWSE

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of History ◽

Global History ◽

Charles Eastman ◽

Intellectual Heritage ◽

Cultural Determinants ◽

History Of ◽

Human Capacity ◽

Liberal Imperialism

Accounts of liberalism as an ideology of European imperialism have argued that when liberals discovered that colonized people were, in various ways, intractable, they questioned and then abandoned the postulated universal human capacity for improvement; the racial and cultural determinants of native “backwardness” seemed stronger than any universal susceptibility to the civilizing projects of liberal imperialism. While the intellectual trajectory of some canonical liberals illustrates this decline in liberal universalism, some colonized intellectuals—while acknowledging distinctions of race and people-hood—adhered to the universalist optimism of liberalism. In pursuit of a global history of liberalism, this essay examines writings by Peter Jones, Charles Eastman, Zitkala-Sa, Apirana Ngata and William Cooper to illustrate a robust indigenous universalism. Drawing on the intellectual heritage of Christianity and universal (or “stadial”) philosophy of history, these intellectuals affirmed emphatically that their people were demonstrating the capacities to be subjects of liberal civilization.

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Black Elk

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-24348-7_75 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 229-232

Author(s):

Richard W. Voss ◽

George A. Looks Twice ◽

Georgine Leona Looks Twice ◽

Alex Lunderman ◽

Vern Ziebart

Keyword(s):

Black Elk

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Black Elk

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion ◽

10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2_75 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 181-184

Author(s):

Richard W. Voss ◽

George A. Looks Twice ◽

Georgine Leona Looks Twice ◽

Alex Lunderman ◽

Vern Ziebart

Keyword(s):

Black Elk

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Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux

Journal of American History ◽

10.2307/1899796 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 904

Author(s):

Frederick E. Hoxie ◽

Raymond Wilson

Keyword(s):

Charles Eastman

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The Case of Nicholas Black Elk

The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism ◽

10.1057/9781137436405_4 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 97-123

Author(s):

Marcel de Lima

Keyword(s):

Black Elk

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An Indigenous Jesus: Methodological and Theoretical Intersections in the Comparative Study of Religion

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ◽

10.1163/15700682-12341516 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-29

Author(s):

Simon J. Joseph

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Rhetorical Strategies ◽

Religious Identities ◽

Native Studies ◽

Black Elk ◽

Counter Narratives ◽

Historical Figure ◽

Indigenous Theory ◽

The Comparative Study

Abstract Indigeneity is a relational category that is predominantly, albeit not exclusively, applicable to Indigenous peoples. As a central theoretical site of discourse in Native Studies, indigeneity tends to be characterized by politicized relationships and provides powerful rhetorical strategies and counter-narratives. Facilitating decolonization as well as illuminating the structural and systemic relationships between the indigenous and the colonial, Indigenous theory recognizes the often complex inter-relationships attending the delineation of ethnic, social, and religious identity. The historical Black Elk, for example, illustrates how Lakota and Catholic religious identities co-exist in an ongoing site of discursive tension. This article argues that the historical figure of Jesus can be re-cognized as an indigenous Judean, complicating contemporary efforts in which the quest for the historical Jesus occurs in a predominantly Christian discursive context.

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