Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues

by Champagne, Duane

• ISBN13: 9780761990581
• ISBN10: 0761990585
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-20
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

While Native American communities remain culturally innovative and continue to struggle for survival, researchers, teachers, and students lack texts that both represent the breadth of contemporary experiences and look toward the future. Editor Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Section introductions provide background and analyses of the issues. Informative and critical studies offer experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native settings. This book and its companion volume, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, edited by Troy R. Johnson, are ideal teaching tools and resources for anyone working in or with Native communities.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(4)
Duane Champagne
PART I Native Identity	11	(58)
American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual Choices and Development	13	(26)
Devon A. Mihesuah
The Crucible of American Indian Identity: Native Tradition versus Colonial Imposition in Postconquest North America	39	(30)
Ward Churchill
PART II Gender	69	(58)
Aboriginal Women and Self-Government: Challenging Leviathan	71	(20)
Katherine Beaty Chiste
The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Women's Writing	91	(12)
Beth Brant
Contemporary Tribal Codes and Gender Issues	103	(24)
Bruce G. Miller
PART III Contemporary Powwow	127	(40)
The Powwow as a Public Arena for Negotiating Unity and Diversity in American Life	129	(16)
Mark Mattern
Southwestern Oklahoma, the Gourd Dance, and ``Charlie Brown''	145	(22)
Luke E. Lassiter
PART IV Film and Other Media	167	(58)
Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America	169	(24)
Laurie Anne Whitt
Native Media's Communities	193	(24)
Steven Leuthold
Shadow Catchers or Snatchers? Ethical Issues for Photographers of Native Americans	217	(8)
Lee Philip Brumbaugh
PART V Health	225	(50)
The Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse among Native Americans: The Mythical and Real Properties	227	(18)
Philip A. May
Tobacco, Culture, and Health among Native Americans: A Historical Review	245	(18)
Christina M. Pego
Robert F. Hill
Glenn W. Solomon
Robert M. Chisholm
Suzanne E. Ivey
Cancer Control Research among American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Paradigm for Research Needs in the Next Millennium	263	(12)
Martin C. Mahoney
Arthur M. Michalek
PART VI Environmental Issues	275	(42)
Friendly Fire: When Environmentalists Dehumanize American Indians	277	(16)
David Waller
Ecological Risk Assessment and Management: Their Failure to Value Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Protect Tribal Homelands	293	(14)
Jeanette Wolfley
Uranium Is in My Body	307	(10)
Rachel L. Spieldoch
Index	317	(9)
Acknowledgments	326	(2)
About the Editor	328