{"title":"Craig Carpenter and the Neo-Indians of LONAI","authors":"B. Haley","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.2.0215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.2.0215","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A neo-Indian phenomenon, in which persons or groups who lack the conventionally expected ancestry or past affiliation begin to assert an Indian identity, is beginning to be recognized as having greater scale and scope than previously imagined. I explore one of the roots of the modern phenomenon in the person and early career of Craig Carpenter, in particular his relationship with the Hopi Traditionalist movement and League of North American Indians. Carpenter and key league officers were neo-Indians who helped foster a new “traditional” Indian identity and spirituality infused with Western romanticism and metaphysics mixed with Hopi prophecy. Past observers and activists have overlooked this neo-Indian presence, describing these arenas solely as Indian and traditional. I conclude with the paradox that many modern Indians, neo-Indians, and New Agers draw their beliefs, practices, and identities from a common source due to the effective proselytizing by these actors.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"71 6 1","pages":"215 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84721321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inspiration from Museum Collections: An Exhibit as a Case Study in Building Relationships between Museums and Indigenous Artists","authors":"G. Saul, R. Jolie","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.2.0246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.2.0246","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Elements of the Earth is an exhibit featured in the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies exhibition gallery at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Guest-curated by Ohkay Owingeh ceramicist Clarence Cruz, the exhibit features narrative written by Cruz and examples of his ceramic artwork inspired by pre-Hispanic and historic Ohkay Owingeh ceramics from the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology collections. The exhibit evolved as a collaboration between Cruz and the Maxwell Museum as part of Cruz’s master’s thesis in studio art and was sponsored by the Ortiz Center. As museums strive to establish and build relationships with Indigenous communities, groups, and individuals, the work of the Alfonso Ortiz Center in supporting projects and exhibits such as Elements of the Earth provides an opportunity to reflect on the process of building reciprocal working relationships. Most importantly, in this case study, having an institution distinct from the museum has produced an exhibition that is aimed to support the intentions of Indigenous communities and artists. For Cruz, the support of the Ortiz Center and the Maxwell Museum made possible an opportunity to introduce Ohkay Owingeh and other Pueblo youth to the cultural importance and historical practices of harvesting clay and making ceramics within Puebloan communities.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"5 1","pages":"246 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81491735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All My Relations: An Inquiry into a Spirit of a Native American Philosophy of Business","authors":"J. S. Gladstone","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.2.0191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.2.0191","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is about the philosophical foundations for contemporary business practice performed by individual Native American people rather than by collectively owned tribal enterprises. It specifically introduces and proposes a Native American trading spirit. This trading spirit is explored through Native American philosophy as described by Native American philosophers and is connected to philosophy by qualitative interviews with modern-day Native American business practitioners. This study contributes to understanding the links between American Indian worldviews and modern-day business practices performed by Native people. It is a useful baseline for designing and developing business education appropriate for Native communities.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":"191 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85058287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Guardians of the Indian Image”: Controlling Representations of Indigenous Cultures in Television","authors":"M. Butler","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study enhances existing scholarship on Indigenous media and activism by documenting the strategies Native organizations have historically used to challenge misrepresentation in television. Focusing specifically on the efforts of the National Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Youth Council, and the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium, this article demonstrates that control of televisual images is a political struggle in which Indigenous activists have repeatedly asserted self-determination through confrontation and collaboration with governing institutions. Historical news sources, organizational reports, legal proceedings, and interviews reveal the motivations for and consistency with which Indigenous activists have attempted to seize control of mediated images. Since the 1960s, Native advocacy groups have initiated petitions, boycotts, and lawsuits to hold lawmakers and federal agencies accountable for misrepresentation. In doing so, these organizations have relied on Indigenous peoples and resources outside of the media industry, including intertribal and interethnic coalitions that supported the broader Red Power movement. Ultimately, these activists have created opportunities for Native peoples to re-present meaningful images of themselves in television. This history of organized resistance to racism in television offers important lessons to activists engaged in the ongoing battle against popular stereotypes and cultural imperialism.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"109 1","pages":"1 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79597214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monique Verdin’s Louisiana Love: An Interview","authors":"Kirstin L. Squint","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.1.0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.1.0117","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:“Monique Verdin’s Louisiana Love: An Interview” provides insights into the aesthetic choices and activism of Houma photographer and documentarian Monique Michelle Verdin. The interview begins with a discussion of Houma kinship relations with both land and water, considering the ecological devastation that corporate colonialism and climate change have wreaked on south Louisiana. This line of questioning leads to a discussion of her 2012 documentary, My Louisiana Love, of which she is both a producer and the central figure. She explains that she was trying to tell the story of her tribe, which inevitably led to documentation of how the gas and oil industry has ravaged south Louisiana’s wetlands through both pollution and pipeline construction. We also discuss how the personal losses in the film, resulting from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005) and BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, make her own pain a focus that ultimately demonstrates intergenerational trauma. The interview then moves on to the ways in which her artistic work led to her activism, particularly by recording the damage sustained by the Gulf of Mexico and the coast due to the BP oil spill. The conversation describes how she has since created alliances with diverse Native peoples as the Gulf Coast representative for the Indigenous Environmental Network and through national and international activism, including at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP 21). The interview concludes with Verdin’s thoughts on environmental issues concerning south Louisiana today, including the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline and the impending resettlement of the Isle de Jean Charles tribe of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw due to rising sea levels.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"33 1","pages":"117 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81904875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kootenai War of ’74","authors":"I. Chambers","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.1.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.1.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A mouse roared on September 20, 1974, when the sixty-seven-member Kootenai Nation of northern Idaho declared war on the United States. As the war developed, the familiar tools of traditional Native American/US negotiations unfolded. A jaundiced state governor, an aggressive leader of local law enforcement, an excessive show of police force, the involvement of “friends of the Indian,” and passionate media all concluded with government-to-government negotiations. At the end of the negotiations, the Kootenai Nation had secured a reservation and funding to save the nation from extinction.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"34 1","pages":"43 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79764063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Native Nation Building: The Long Emergence of the Oneida Nation Judiciary","authors":"Larry Nesper","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.1.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.42.1.0087","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article documents the emergence of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s judiciary over the course of the past thirty years. It argues that judicial systems have become necessary tribal institutions in the federal Indian policy era of self-determination, but assimilating them to tribal societies that are characteristically organized by kinship presents serious challenges of legitimacy. The Oneida Nation needed a formal dispute resolution forum in order to qualify for certain federal programs under the policy regime. It created the Appeals Commission, which aspired to be a tribal court and separate branch of government integrating fundamental Oneida values and practices. As the commission expanded the scope of its jurisdiction and became more engaged with other tribal courts in the state, sectors within the Oneida community contested its legitimacy. Because of developments in the relationship between the state courts and tribal courts in Wisconsin, the commission began to take cases dealing with marriage, divorce, and children in the last several years. The contradictions between the community as society organized by kinship and a community organized as a tribal state precipitated a crisis that eventuated in the creation of a new institution.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"16 1","pages":"116 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88541184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America by Michael A. McDonnell (review)","authors":"Patrick Lozar","doi":"10.1353/mhr.2016.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mhr.2016.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"6 1","pages":"398 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78871418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power Suits: Sartorial Politics in Portraits of Black Hawk, 1833–1837","authors":"Jane E. Simonsen","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.41.4.0336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.41.4.0336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"20 1","pages":"336 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81240615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I Am Not a Women's Libber Although Sometimes I Sound Like One\": Indigenous Feminism and Politicized Motherhood","authors":"S. Nickel","doi":"10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.41.4.0299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/AMERINDIQUAR.41.4.0299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"47 11 1","pages":"299 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80611916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}