{"title":"“Where You Have to Bypass”: History, Memory, and Multiple Temporalities of Innu Cultural Landscapes","authors":"J. Gagnon, C. Desbiens, Éric Kanapé","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Since the 1970s, many Indigenous Peoples in Canada have undertaken land claims negotiations under the Comprehensive Land Claims Policy. These negotiations have highlighted the restrictive and colonial legal framework within which Indigenous rights and titles have to be expressed in order to be validated by the Canadian state. Notions of occupation and continuity, more particularly, have been largely defined according to a unilinear vision of time and space, making cultural landscapes that gradually merged into colonial ones harder to claim as still occupied and holding meaning for the present generation. As a way to overcome these contradictions, and following its withdrawal from the land claims process in 2005, the Innu community of Pessamit has opted, among other avenues, to engage in a heritage project on an ancestral route that was significantly altered by hydro-development. Highlighting the way in which the meaning and value of the Uamashtakan portage trail was maintained and handed down through cultural memory and oral history, this article aims to develop a critical perspective on Quebec historiography, as expressed within the political and legal arenas of Canada’s land claims policy.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"361 - 399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89949764","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":"Relations Across the Lands: Ojibwe and Dakota Interactions in the Indigenous Borderlands of the Western Great Lakes","authors":"Jacob C. Jurss","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Borderlands studies have expanded how scholars understand interactions between Euro-Americans and Indigenous nations. However, borderlands did not only exist where Euro-Americans were present. “Relations Across the Lands” argues that Indigenous borderlands existed between tribes and that these Indigenous borderlands functioned differently from borderlands between empires and Native nations. Relationships rested at the center of boundaries, identity, and who could access vital environmental gifts. This article demonstrates the presence of these Indigenous borderlands by examining a case study of the westward movement of the Ojibwe during the eighteenth century and their resulting interactions with the Dakota. The framework of Indigenous borderlands can help decolonize historical narratives and illuminate understudied aspects of Indigenous lifeways further centering Indigenous narratives.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"29 1","pages":"307 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78839629","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":"Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960 by Liza Black (review)","authors":"Andre Seewood","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"45 1","pages":"405 - 407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86962191","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":"When Black Lives Matter Meets Indian Country: Using the Cherokee and Chickasaw Nations as Case Studies for Understanding the Evolution of Public History and Interracial Coalition","authors":"Alaina E. Roberts","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2020 a social revolution to incite change around police violence against Black women and men became so much more. Spurred by the May 25, 2020, brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, monuments to enslavers and colonizers across the United States were toppled. Movements to remove statues commemorating the Confederacy and other symbols related to hatred and genocide have existed for more than one hundred years. But there was one place the movements revolving around Confederate commemoration had largely not touched: Indian Country. That changed when the Cherokee Nation removed Confederate monuments—installed by Cherokee members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy—from the nation's capitol square in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. In this article, the author examines the evolutions of anti-Blackness and anti-racism in Indian Country through case studies of the Cherokee and Chickasaw Nations' twentieth and twenty-first-century Confederate memorialization and 2020 statements on the Black Lives Matter movements. These two nations, as former slaveholding states, are important representations of the possibilities and limits of interracial coalition. The author argues that to fully understand the breadth of the struggle against the effects of settler colonialism in the United States, which include both anti-Blackness and anti-Native sentiment, we must interrogate the anti-Blackness of the Native past and present.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"250 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79703561","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":"Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health ed. by Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover (review)","authors":"Kathie L. Beebe","doi":"10.1002/9780470776506.ch7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470776506.ch7","url":null,"abstract":"The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, dating to 1959, is considered a masterpiece of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (Fig. 1). However, when it was first completed, it was not the recognized icon of Modernism that it is today. Instead, because of its prominent location across from Central Park on Fifth Avenue between East 88 and 89 Streets, it was considered an aberration by the Upper East Side’s wealthy class. It did not fit in with their taste for classicism, or into Manhattan’s relentless street grid. However, over the years, the building was accepted not only as an attraction to the neighborhood, but also as the largest artifact in the museum’s collection. It has become the second most visited site in New York City after the Statue of Liberty. It is now celebrated as a National Historic Landmark, and in 1979, it became the youngest building to be designated as an individual landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"15 1","pages":"297 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73422822","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":"Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place ed. by Nathalie Kermoal and Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez (review)","authors":"C. Meyer","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"54 1","pages":"294 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85090245","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":"Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century by Brianna Theobold (review)","authors":"Abigail M. Markwyn","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"302 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87448220","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":"Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy ed. by Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee (review)","authors":"S. Sexton","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"300 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79589510","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 Treaty Imaginary and Tribal Sovereignty in South Dakota","authors":"T. Biolsi","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the history of the South Dakota \"Mitigation Act\" (as it is commonly know by Lakota people) in the 1990s and early 2000s. The Mitigation Act, enacted in 1998 and implemented over a period of nine years, was meant to create a negotiated agreement between tribal governments and the state for jurisdiction over the regulation of hunting and fishing on the Missouri River that would avoid a long history of bitter litigation over jurisdictional contests. The act was also meant to return lands held by the US Army Corps of Engineers, originally acquired for the purpose of constructing three main-stem dams on the Missouri, to the tribes that had originally held the land, and to the State of South Dakota. Both the goal of negotiating state and tribal jurisdiction, and returning lands to the state and the tribes, led to heightened intensity of the very tribal-state conflicts that the act was meant avoid. Based primarily on the senatorial records of Senator Thomas Daschle (D-SD) and the gubernatorial papers of William Janklow (R), the article examines the logic of the \"treaty imaginary\" among Lakota tribal governments and their constituencies, and the liberal democratic principle of negotiation by \"all interested parties\" at the center of development of the Mitigation Act. The article ties the conflict over the act to its fundamental misrecognition of the continuing validity of treaties for Lakota people, and the family resemblance the act had to the illegal taking of the Black Hills for many Lakota and other Great Sioux Nation tribes.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"38 1","pages":"209 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75516949","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":"Provinces of Meaning: Determining Cultural Affiliation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act","authors":"Jerry L. Williams","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay utilizes Alfred Schutz's finite provinces of meaning to understand problems associated with the determination of cultural affiliation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using their own ten-year experience with the NAGRPA consultation process, the author contends that by using multiple provinces of meaning to determine cultural affiliation, NAGPRA failed to adequately consider that by their distinctness, disputes between the oral tradition and science could not be easily resolved within the confines of either. Instead, a resolution would require a resort to yet a third province of meaning, that of the law, which by nature is more closely aligned with science than the oral tradition. As a result, NAGPRA claims made by native people based on the oral tradition found themselves at a distinct disadvantage.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"71 1","pages":"272 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81685146","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}