Native Voices : American Indian Identity and Resistance

by Grounds, Richard A.; Tinker, George E.; Wilkins, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780700612581
• ISBN10: 0700612580
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

Native peoples of North America still face an uncertain future due to their unstable political, legal, and economic positions. Views of their predicament, however, continue to be dominated by non-Indian writers. In response, a dozen Native American writers here reclaim their rightful role as influential "voices" in the debates about Native communities at the dawn of a new millennium. These scholars examine crucial issues of politics, law, and religion in the context of ongoing Native American resistance to the dominant culture. They particularly show how the writings of Vine Deloria, Jr., have shaped and challenged American Indian scholarship in these areas since the 1960s. They provide key insights into Deloria's thought, while introducing some of the critical issues still confronting Native nations today. Collectively, these essays take up four important themes: indigenous societies as the embodiment of cultures of resistance, legal resistance to western oppression against indigenous nations, contemporary Native religious practices, and Native intellectual ch

Author Biography

S. James Anaya (Purepecha/Apache) Ward Churchill (Keetowah Band of Cherokee) Cecil Corbett (Nez Perce) Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) Richard A. Grounds (Yuchi/Seminole) Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) Ines Hernandez-Avila (Nez Perce/Chicana) M. A. Jaimes-Guerrero (Juaneno/Yaqui) Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw/Ojibwe) Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne) John Mohawk (Seneca) Glenn T. Morris (Shawnee) Michelene E. Pesantubbee (Choctaw) Ines Talamantez (Apache/Chicana) George E. Tinker (Osage/Cherokee) David E. Wilkins (Lumbee)

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Cultures of Resistance
Introduction: The Psychology of Earth and Sky	p. 3
Ethnoastronomy as the Key to Human Intellectual Development and Social Organization	p. 5
The Power of Seneca Women and the Legacy of Handsome Lake	p. 20
The Power of Native Languages and the Performance of Indigenous Autonomy: The Case of Mexico	p. 35
Resistance, Politics, Colonization, and the Law
Introduction: The Metaphysics of Federal Indian Law and U.S. Colonialism of American Indians	p. 77
From Time Immemorial: The Origin and Import of the Reserved Rights Doctrine	p. 81
Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Development of a Decolonizing Critique of Indigenous Peoples and International Relations	p. 97
International Law and U.S. Trust Responsibility toward Native Americans	p. 155
Native American Religious Traditions and Resistance
Introduction: When God Became Red	p. 189
Earth Mother and Prayerful Children: Sacred Sites and Religious Freedom	p. 194
Religious Studies on the Margins: Decolonizing Our Minds	p. 209
American Indian Religious Traditions, Colonialism, Resistance, and Liberation	p. 223
Indian Intellectual Culture and Resistance
Introduction: There Is No Such Thing as a One-Way Land Bridge	p. 243
Contours of Enlightenment: Reflections on Science, Theology, Law, and the Alternative Vision of Vine Deloria, Jr.	p. 245
Transforming American Conceptions about Native America: Vine Deloria, Jr., Critic and Coyote	p. 273
Yuchi Travels: Up and Down the Academic "Road to Disappearance"	p. 290
The Passage of Generations	p. 318
United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (26 August 1994)	p. 325
List of Contributors	p. 335
Index	p. 339
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