Native American Voices: A Reader

by Lobo, Susan; Talbot, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780130307323
• ISBN10: 0130307327
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

For courses in Introduction to American Indians in departments of Native American Studies/American Indian Studies, Anthropology, American Studies, Sociology, History, Women's Studies. This unique reader presents a broad approach to the study of American Indians through the voices and viewpoints of the Native Peoples themselves. Multi-disciplinary and hemispheric in approach, it draws on ethnography, biography, journalism, art, and poetry to familiarize students with the historical and present day experiences of native peoples and nations throughout North and South Americaall with a focus on themes and issues that are crucial within Indian Country today.

Table of Contents

Foreword	viii
Jose Barreiro
Preface	xi
About The Editors	xiv
About The Artists	xv
PART I: Peoples and Nations: Following in the Footsteps of the Ancestors	1	(68)
Definitions and Diversity	13	(18)
Phillip Wearne
The Canadian Natives	29	(2)
Anthony Long
Katherine Beaty Chiste
The Crucible Of American Indian Identity: Native Tradition Versus Colonial Imposition In Postconquest North America	31	(17)
Ward Churchill
To The U.S. Census Bureau, Native Americans Are Practically Invisible	48	(8)
John Anner
Native American Statistics---United States, 1990	53	(3)
Is Urban A Person Or A Place? Characteristics Of Urban Indian Country	56	(13)
Susan Lobo
Part Review	66	(3)
PART II: The Hidden Heritage	69	(343)
Black Bears	74	(1)
William Oandasan
Mis Misa: The Power Within Akoo-Yet That Protects The World	75	(9)
Darryl Babe Wilson
Creation Story: The Gathering Of The Clans	83	(1)
Nancy J. Parezo
Perceptions Of America's Native Democracies: The Societies Colonial Americans Observed	84	(285)
Donald A. Grinde Jr.
Bruce E. Johansen
Origins Of Iroquois Political Thought	95	(274)
John Mohawk
Native American Labor And Public Policy In The United States	369	(8)
Alice Littlefield
The Dealer's Edge: Gaming In The Path Of Native America	377	(11)
Tim Johnson
NARF Legal Review, All We Ever Wanted Was to Catch Fish	388	(5)
Peace, Not Oil: The U'Wa And International Petroleum	392	(1)
Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism And the Prostitution Of Hawaiian Culture	393	(8)
Haunani-Kay Trask
The Struggle Over Land On Central America's Last Frontier	401	(11)
Mac Chapin
Part Review	410	(2)
PART VIII: Community Well-Being: Health, Welfare, Justice	412	(54)
Yes Is Better Than No	420	(8)
Byrd Baylor
Gathering	428	(8)
Gary Paul Nabhan
Florence Connolly Shipek, Delfina Cuero: Her Autobiography	434	(2)
The Epidemiology Of Alcohol Abuse Among American Indians: The Mythical And Real Properties	436	(11)
Philip A. May
Indian Forever	447	(8)
Joan Smith
Tobacco Use Amongst The Indians Of Southern California	454	(1)
Tharon P. Weighill Sr.
Punishing Institutions: The Story Of Catherine (Cedar Woman)	455	(11)
Luana Ross
Part Review	464	(2)
PART IX: Native American Rights, Struggle, and Revitalization	466	(88)
(Joagquisho, Onondaga Nation), Voices Of Indigenous Peoples: Epilogue	477	(10)
Oren Lyons
North America	480	(4)
Ingrid Washinawatok
Central And South America	484	(2)
Jose Barreiro
Ingrid Washinawatok	486	(1)
Ethnic Reorganization: American Indian Social, Economic, Political, And Cultural Strategies For Survival	487	(20)
Joane Nagel
C. Matthew Snipp
Aboriginal Peoples And Quebec: Competing For Legitimacy As Emergent Nations	503	(4)
Russel Lawrence Barsh
Reflections Of Alcatraz	507	(13)
Lanada Boyer
Roots Of Contemporary Native American Activism	518	(1)
Troy R. Johnson
Rigoberta Menchu Tum	519	(1)
Hawaiian Language Schools	520	(13)
Leanne Hinton
Maya Indian Rebellion: Chronology Of Important Events	532	(1)
A ``New Partnership'' For Indigenous Peoples: Can The United Nations Make a Difference?	533	(11)
Russel Lawrence Barsh
Indigenous People's Seattle Declaration On The Occasion Of The Third Ministerial Meeting Of The World Trade Organization, November 30-December 3, 1999	544	(10)
Closing Address	548	(1)
Phillip Deere
Message For The Work Ahead	549	(5)
John Mohawk
Part Review	551	(3)
Appendix A: Native Media	554	(2)
Appendix B: Indigenous Peoples' Organizations	556	(2)
Appendix C: Native American Studies Programs In The United States And Canada	558	(1)
Appendix D: American Indian Higher Education Consortium	559	(2)
Credits	561	(2)
Index	563

Excerpts

PREFACEWe are pleased by the very positive response to the first edition of this reader by students, colleagues, and the Native American community. The changes and additions to the new edition, we believe, will generate an even greater appreciation for the uniquely Indian-based perspective and hemispheric approach that characterize this volume and that clearly differentiate it from the standard, introductory works on Native Americans in the disciplines of anthropology and history.The idea for this work grew out of the editors teaching an introductory level college course, The Indian Experience, for several years at the University of California at Davis in the late 1980s to the 1990s. This course and Introduction to Native American Studies were originally developed along with a dozen or so others in the late 1960s by Jack D. Forbes for the then new Native American Studies program at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of California at Davis. Steve Talbot, a co-editor of this reader, was a member of the faculty in the new Native American studies program at the University of California-Berkeley from 1971 to 1974 and consequently helped to develop these introductory courses. The Indian Experience became one of the core courses for the programs at these two institutions.Other developing Native American Studies (or American Indian Studies) programs in colleges and universities during the 1970s created similar introductory courses. These included the University of Minnesota, Washington State University, Humboldt State University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the University of Arizona.The 1960s was the time of the "new Indian" movement and renewed activism signaled by the formation of the National Indian Youth Council, the American Indian Movement, and other Indian protest organizations, as well as by continued actions by the Iroquois and other traditional Indian peoples, the occupation of Alcatraz, the Trail of Broken Treaties to Washington, D.C., and Wounded Knee II and its aftermath of government repression. This was a time when urban-based Indians and their reservation counterparts joined forces under the guidance of traditional elders and religious leaders to press for treaty rights, sovereignty, and self-determination. It was also a time when hundreds of Indian young people were able to enter college under special admissions programs (affirmative action), receive financial aid, and bring the issues and demands of the larger Native American struggle to the university campus. The idea behind these introductory Native American studies classes was to bring the "Indian experience" into the classroom and thereby make the college curriculum relevant to the lives of the new population of Indian students on campus; they were also intended to correct misconceptions and stereotypes about Indian history, religion, and culture for the general student population and the larger society.The Indian Experience course substituted for the more mainstream Introduction to North American Indians course traditionally taught in anthropology. The paradigms for the two courses differ substantially; indeed, there are profound differences in the respective paradigms of Native American studies and anthropology. Yet, although there are many introductory North American Indian books in anthropology and history, there are very few in Native American studies and virtually none, especially a reader, that are suitable as an introduction to Native American studies for the college student and the general public with an interest in American Indians. There are, of course, some excellent atlases, almanacs, and edited works, including various compilations of Indian literature and poetry, but, again, nothing that approximates a Native American studies reader such as we have compiled here. (S