{"title":"Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816–1916 by Christina Dickerson-Cousin (review)","authors":"Nakia D. Parker","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"81 1","pages":"268 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83408387","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":"\"Verbs that will story our bodies into something more than missing\": Poetry, Presencing, and #MMIWG2S","authors":"M. Carden","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on the work of Gerald Vizenor and Leanne Simpson, this article examines poetry that addresses the contemporary crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people. I argue that #MMIWG2S poetry serves as a mode of \"survivance\"—a term Vizenor coined to indicate Native strategies of cultural expression that \"create an active presence\" in the face of colonial denial and erasure—and as a means of \"presencing\"—a term Simpson uses to indicate methods of \"center[ing] and living Indigeneity\" through \"strategic, thoughtful processes\" that produce an Indigenous \"present … that is fundamentally different than the one settler colonialism creates.\" Making Indigenous women visible on their own terms, #MMIWG2S poetry works to extract them from the dehumanizing narratives of settler states. Because #MMIWG2S is in large part an online movement, this article considers uses of social media to disseminate poetry that claims and mourns the missing and murdered, attributes responsibility for their loss to the systemic racism underpinning occupying states, and proposes transformational modes of healing and resistance based in Indigenous knowledge and cultural practice. Analyzing poems by established writers including Marilyn Dumont, Karenne Wood, and Gregory Scofield as well as work by emerging artists such as Tanaya Winder, Helen Knott, and Sākihitowin Awāsis, I find that #MMIWG2S poetry interrogates colonial and contemporary treatment of Native women as violable and disposable in ways that support and supplement parallel grassroots efforts while also offering possibilities for creating empowered Indigenous presents and resurgent futures.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"146 1","pages":"155 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77726107","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 Return of the Numu Pukutsi: Reclaiming a Comanche Warrior Tradition","authors":"William C. Meadows","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Numu Pukutsinuu, or Pukutsi, were nineteenth-century Comanche (Numunuu) warriors who followed ritual contrary roles in combat and everyday life. Following the end of traditional Plains Indian warfare and their cessation, Comanches soon began regaining veteran status through service in the US Armed Forces. While several Southern Plains tribes later revived traditional men's warrior societies and created veteran's organizations, none have formally associated a contrary status with newer forms of military service. In 2010 members of the Comanche Indian Veterans Association decided to reclaim this ancestral warrior status, bestowing it upon select contemporary veterans. In doing so, the Comanche continue a tradition of reviving important martial cultural symbols, blending them with US Armed Forces service, insignia, and rituals, and demonstrating how the importance of Comanche military service and recognizing veterans continues in modern contexts and on their own terms.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"19 1","pages":"189 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80988656","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":"Fish of the Future: Genetically Engineered Salmon and Settler Colonial Science","authors":"Lindsey Schneider","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article takes up the recent controversy over genetically engineered (GE) salmon and the FDA's approval of these fast-growing \"frankenfish\" for human consumption. While many believe that GE aquaculture plays a necessary role in the future of food security (especially in a world threatened by increasing climate instability), Indigenous communities throughout the world have raised concerns about the impacts of GE technology. At the heart of the issue is a clash between settler scientific values (including risk-based assessment, colonial right of discovery, and intellectual property) and Indigenous epistemologies, which take a more comprehensive approach to the complex relationships between the environment and those inhabiting it. Weaving together issues of ecology, climate change, and tribal sovereignty, this paper historicizes the GE salmon struggle within global processes of colonialism and resource extraction, and troubles the arguments GE fish are \"unnatural.\" Such designations rely on particular ideas about nature, property, and technology that reinforce settler scientific values. I argue that rejections of AquAdvantage salmon rooted in Indigenous epistemologies enable a more sophisticated critique of settler science, and are thus able to open new lines of inquiry into what our relationship with nature can and should look like in a settler colonial context.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"96 1","pages":"225 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79238783","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":"Knowing Native Arts by Nancy Marie Mithlo (review)","authors":"Benjamin P. Davis","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Laguna land, Archuleta employs race and space to conjecture Silko’s sense of land as multispaced and transnational— a fact due partially to the unlandedness of Native peoples in the Americas. In her essay “‘The Web of Stories’: Reading and Change in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller,” Linda Krumholtz considers Silko’s text in conversation with poststructuralism. Intriguingly, Krumholtz points out the congruences between the Derridean notion that language is world and Silko’s assertion that narrative and stories make up reality. David Stirrup’s “‘This Story Is Found’: Silko’s Storyteller and the Roots of Native American Literature” takes a materialist perspective. From the peritext of Storyteller’s original jacket copy that likened it to Alex Haley’s Roots, Stirrup embarks on a nuanced and useful analysis of Storyteller’s context in publishing and literary culture, noting the universalizing dangers of multicultural rhetoric. Finally, Ami Regier’s “Storyteller in an Undergraduate Theory Course” is a pedagogical essay recounting Regier’s experience teaching four critical methodologies through Silko’s text— undoubtedly beneficial for instructors interested in bringing Silko into the classroom. Rainwater has edited a wideranging collection. The application of new critical paradigms to an underconsidered Silko text not only offers persuasive new readings but also gestures toward directions for further scholarship.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"19 1","pages":"141 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73087004","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":"“Everything Is in Us”: Collaboration, Introspection, and Continuity as Healing in #NotYourPrincess","authors":"Rick Ginsberg, Wendy J. Glenn","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Grounded in the belief that storytelling can act as an embodied form of resilience and can bring together voices in collective healing, this study uses general inductive analysis and Baez’s Sweetgrass Method to focus on how the Indigenous women contributors of #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women use writing, artwork, and media as a form of healing. Analysis focused on how the contributors described or depicted their strength and opportunities for healing through story (in many creative forms) in this edited collection marketed for young people. Findings reveal that the contributors demonstrate collaboration, introspection, and continuity as forms of healing in their connectedness with others, culture, history, spirituality, and land. The women describe how they confront fear with strength and reposition trauma and adversity using collaboration and introspection to retell histories, challenge dominant narratives, own and signal their pride, and rewrite their stories as activists and as their own heroes. The words and images demonstrate a commitment to themselves and others to share stories of community, culture, and land that show intergenerational and collective approaches to healing within and across tribal nations. This study demonstrates that writing can serve as a form of decolonial resistance and a source of deep understanding, connectivity, and activism in the way that it is strength-centered, power-centered, and healing-centered. The works in the collection speak to each other and together and demonstrate the power of storytelling as testament.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":"25 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88447861","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":"Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller: New Perspectives ed. by Catherine Rainwater (review)","authors":"Ryan Lackey","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":" 17","pages":"139 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91413528","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}
A. Klein, Rick Ginsberg, Wendy J. Glenn, Brian Klopotek, Adam Lauder, L. Lee, Ryan Lackey, Benjamin P. Davis, A. Anson, B. Hughes, Kai Pyle
{"title":"Cover Artist","authors":"A. Klein, Rick Ginsberg, Wendy J. Glenn, Brian Klopotek, Adam Lauder, L. Lee, Ryan Lackey, Benjamin P. Davis, A. Anson, B. Hughes, Kai Pyle","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Lakota Nation Invitational (LNI) is the premier basketball tournament in the State of South Dakota and for the Lakota. Over the forty-four years it has been played, the tournament has evolved to create a major cultural festival/competition as well. The combination of sport and cultural festival has resulted in the Lakota Nation Invitational being a site of cultural production. Hobsbawm’s use of “invented tradition” is useful in examining the way that Lakota culture is reproduced and altered in this setting, but it requires alterations when used in an indigenous context. For Hobsbawm and other proponents of invented tradition, the newly minted rituals are privileged over tradition, but indigenous societies make the two co-equals. The LNI is unique in the way it promotes sport, indigenous perspective, and cultural production.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"7 3 1","pages":"1 - 122 - 123 - 138 - 139 - 141 - 141 - 145 - 145 - 148 - 148 - 150 - 151 - 153 - 24 - 25 - 63 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78488663","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 Great Gathering: Lakota Basketball as a Site of Cultural Production","authors":"A. Klein","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Lakota Nation Invitational (LNI) is the premier basketball tournament in the State of South Dakota and for the Lakota. Over the forty-four years it has been played, the tournament has evolved to create a major cultural festival/competition as well. The combination of sport and cultural festival has resulted in the Lakota Nation Invitational being a site of cultural production. Hobsbawm’s use of “invented tradition” is useful in examining the way that Lakota culture is reproduced and altered in this setting, but it requires alterations when used in an indigenous context. For Hobsbawm and other proponents of invented tradition, the newly minted rituals are privileged over tradition, but indigenous societies make the two co-equals. The LNI is unique in the way it promotes sport, indigenous perspective, and cultural production.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"30 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81035244","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":"Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities by Lisa Tatonetti (review)","authors":"Kai Pyle","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"44 1","pages":"151 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80190223","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}