Native voices
Subtitle: American Indian identity and resistance
By: edited by Richard A. Grounds, George E. Tinker, and David E. Wilkins.
Contributors: Grounds, Richard A.; Tinker, George E.; Wilkins, David E. 1954-
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780700612581; 9780700612598
Subjects: Deloria, Vine; Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity; Indians of North America -- Politics and government; Indians of North America -- Social conditions; Self-determination, National -- United States
Description: Native peoples of North America still face an uncertain future due to their unstable political, legal, and economic positions. Views of their predicament continue to be dominated by non-Indian writers. In response, a dozen Native American writers here reclaim their rightful role as influential "voices" in debates about Native communities. 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 1960s. They provide key insights into Deloria's thought, while introducing some critical issues confronting Native nations. 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 challenges to academia. Essays address indigenous perspectives on topics usually treated by non-Indians, such as role of women in Indian society, the importance of sacred sites to American Indian religious identity, and relationship of native language to indigenous autonomy. A closing essay by Deloria, in vintage form, reminds Native Americans of their responsibilities and obligations to one another and to past and future generations. This book argues for renewed cultivation of a Native American Studies that is more Indian-centered.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The psychology of Earth and sky / Joy Harjo (Mvskoke); title: Ethnoastronomy as the key to human intellectual development and social organization / Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw/Ojibwe); title: The power of Seneca women and the legacy of Handsome lake / John Mohawk (Seneca); title: The power of native languages and the performance of indigenous autonomy: the case of Mexico / Ine's Hernańdez-Ávila (Nez Percé/Chicana); title: The metaphysics of federal Indian law and U.S. colonialism of American Indians / M.A. Jaimes-Guerrero (Juaneño/Yaqui); title: From time immemorial: the origin and import of the reserved rights doctrine / David E. Wilkins (Lumbee); title: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the development of a decolonizing critique of indigenous peoples and international relations / Glenn T. Morris (Shawnee); title: International law and U.S. trust responsibility toward Native Americans / S. James Anaya (Purepecha/Apache); title: When God became red / Cecil Corbett (Nez Percé); title: Earth mother and prayerful children: sacred sites and religious freedom / Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne); title: Religious studies on the margins: decolonizing our minds / Michelene E. Pesantubbee (Choctaw); title: American Indian religious traditions, colonialism, resistance, and liberation / George E. Tinker (Osage/Cherokee); title: There is no such thing as a one-way land bridge / Joy Harjo (Mvskoke); title: Contours of enlightenment: reflections on science, theology, law, and the alternative vision of Vine Deloria, Jr. / Ward Churchill (Keetowah band of Cherokee); title: Transforming American conceptions about Native America: Vine Deloria, Jr., critic and coyote / Inés Talamantez (Apache/Chicana); title: Yuchi travels: up and down the academic "road to disappearance" / Richard A. Grounds (Yuchi/Seminole); title: The passage of generations / Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux); title: Appendix: United Nations draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (26 August 1994).