{"title":"Native American Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations by Mary Stoecklein (review)","authors":"Tom Peotto","doi":"10.1353/AIQ.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AIQ.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"65 1","pages":"196 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84349753","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":"Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement by David Martinez (review)","authors":"J. Cable","doi":"10.1353/AIQ.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AIQ.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"52 1","pages":"204 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76105652","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":"Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty by Courtney Lewis (review)","authors":"Samuel W. Rose","doi":"10.1353/AIQ.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AIQ.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":"201 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72972935","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":"Improving on Nature: The Legend Lake Development, Menominee Resistance, and the Ecological Dynamics of Settler Colonialism","authors":"M. Dockry, K. Whyte","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1968 a large-scale recreational vacation property development, Legend Lake, was carved out of the recently terminated Menominee reservation to create a tax base for Wisconsin’s newly formed Menominee County. Menominee peoples’ resistance to the Legend Lake project and land sales expressed multiple concerns about settler colonialism and the process of terraforming and ecological change, land dispossession, cultural erasure, and implications for the future. The Menominee people came together to respond to this twentieth-century manifestation of the ecological dynamics of settler colonialism by asserting their tribal identity, culture, and relationships to their land. In this paper, we argue that the ecological changes created by the Legend Lake project was one of the major catalysts for Menominee resistance to settler colonialism that ultimately led to the restoration of the Menominee tribe.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"17 1","pages":"120 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81839055","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":"Termination by Decentralization? Native American Responses to Federal Regional Councils, 1969–1983","authors":"Thomas A. Britten","doi":"10.1353/aiq.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An interesting yet often overlooked facet of Richard M. Nixon’s consequential presidency was his administration’s ambitious efforts to improve the responsiveness and efficiency of federal grants in aid programs. In order to encourage federal agencies to cooperate with each other, to coordinate their efforts, and to make them more accessible to the people, Nixon created ten Federal Regional Councils (FRCs) and directed major grant making agencies to establish field offices in each of them. In keeping with the administration’s emphasis on decentralization (or New Federalism), the FRCs sought to reverse the concentration of power in Washington, DC, by moving decision making closer to the point of delivery of services and to empower state and local governments to administer federally assisted programs. In theory at least, state and local governments would embrace a more prominent role in identifying and prioritizing their needs and in managing the expenditure of federal funds. They would likewise support the streamlined and simplified application procedures that regionalization promised. At first glance, Native Americans appeared to be potential beneficiaries of these reforms since regionalization promised tribal governments improved access to federal assistance and because it appeared to be consistent with their aspirations for tribal self-determination. That said, most tribal governments as well as national Indian reform organizations such as the National Congress of American Indians and the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association opposed regionalization and worked strenuously to alter its application to tribes. This study seeks to explain Indian opposition to regionalization along with subsequent efforts to modify regionalization to reflect tribal aspirations. In the end, they were largely successful in resisting, ignoring, and/or adapting to the demands of regionalization until the entire effort was abandoned.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"8 1","pages":"121 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81887138","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":"Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NODAPL Movement ed. by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon (review)","authors":"Nicholas A. Timmerman","doi":"10.1353/AIQ.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AIQ.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"17 1","pages":"199 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81311090","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":"Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Resistance in the Age of Big Oil: Corwin Clairmont’s Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project","authors":"Kate A. Kane","doi":"10.1353/AIQ.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AIQ.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes an art installation performed and exhibited in 2018 by the Séliš u Ksanka/Salish and Kootenai artist Corwin Clairmont: Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project. Clairmont is a printmaker and creator of inventive and playful installations that follow conceptualist principles, which designate ideas and action as inherently aesthetic, but he is also and primarily a traditionally oriented Séliš u Ksanka artist. Concerned with petromodernity in the North American Rocky Mountain West and Great Plains, Clairmont’s installation charts the material and ideological routes of the oil flow between the Flathead Indian Reservation (and Missoula, Montana) and the Fort McMurray tar sands site located adjacent to Abathasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations land in Alberta. The history of energy extraction in Indian Country is largely occluded in the newly emergent interdisciplinary field of “energy humanities” and similarly rendered opaque in most official and unofficial discourses of the “West.” Clairmont’s installation responds to this social silence around indigeneity and petroleum production in this “sacrifice zone” via a collage of artworks that includes, among other things, gummy bears (a key oil commodity), lava lamps, prints, and photographs. The installation creates new historical and affective insights in the unsettling juxtapositions of its materials. Plastic functions in place of hides in Clairmont’s new “winter counts” and the focus on gummy bears allows for the unveiling of the longstanding kinship between the animals and Indigenous people. The installation participates in a powerful and historically long-standing tradition of Indigenous resistance, by challenging state forms of extractive settler colonialism.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"16 1","pages":"152 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75196101","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":"War, Wampum, and Recognition: Algonquin Transborder Political Activism during the Early Twentieth Century, 1919–1931","authors":"D. Fisher","doi":"10.5250/amerindiquar.45.1.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/amerindiquar.45.1.0056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that modern Native political organizing in Eastern Canada began shortly after the Great War. The Algonquin at Kitigan Zibi coconstructed and participated in transborder political networks designed to bring attention to their cause and claims. They employed their treaties and wampum belts including the Royal Proclamation of 1763 to argue for the recognition of their treaty rights and traditional lands. By 1931, the Department of Indian Affairs was successful in temporarily shutting down Algonquin political organizing. However, throughout the remainder of the twentieth century, the Algonquin continued their transborder political associations and continued to press for recognition of their treaty rights and traditional lands.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"6 1","pages":"56 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88100020","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":"In and Against the Image of Our Ancestors: Language, Leadership, and Sovereignty in the 2014 Navajo Nation Presidential Election Controversy","authors":"J. J. Clark","doi":"10.5250/amerindiquar.45.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/amerindiquar.45.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2014, Joe Shirley, Jr. and Christopher L. Clark Deschene secured the first and second place positions, respectively, in the Navajo Nation presidential elections by defeating fifteen other candidates. Ten days into the general election race, Deschene's campaign was thwarted when two former candidates, Hank Whitethorne and Dale E. Tsosie, filed grievances with the Navajo Nation Office of Hearings and Appeals claiming that Deschene did not meet the language fluency requirement outlined in the election code. A critical moment in the controversy was the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation's October 9 ruling that language fluency was a reasonable regulation of the candidate's right to political liberty. Months later, Deschene was eventually removed from the ballot. This article examines the critical discourse within and around the October 9, 2014 Supreme Court ruling to illustrate the ways language, identity, and leadership are discursively and legally constituted among Diné people. This study shows how the debates about leadership, language, and identity factor into Dinéness and the shared concern with enactments of sovereignty to secure a Diné future. This article demonstrates how tribal sovereignty is closely tied to the colonial mandate of eliminating Indigenous peoples, especially in the Supreme Court's deployment of tradition to create and enforce boundaries of inclusion and exclusion.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"109 1","pages":"1 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89713017","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":"Replaying Colonialism: Indigenous National Sovereignty and Its Limits in Strategic Videogames","authors":"M. Carpenter","doi":"10.5250/amerindiquar.45.1.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/amerindiquar.45.1.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the pitfalls and potentialities of the recent inclusion of indigenous nations in the strategic videogame series Europa Universalis and Civilization. By making protagonists of dynamic indigenous nations—and putting them on the same plane as the nations of Europe and Asia—newer entries in these series encourage players to think of indigenous polities as sovereign, active, and independent. This is a seeming break from earlier iterations that portrayed them as alien Others. However, both series remain reliant on settler colonial mechanics of play, portraying Native nations as dynamic, future-oriented, and modern only via universalized, Eurocentric metrics of achievement, and participation in the conquest of an \"empty\" world. The newer versions of Europa Universalis and Civilization encourage players to consider aspects of indigenous sovereignty, but remain freighted with a colonizing vision that \"sees\" only national and imperial power as legitimate. These games allow for indigenous sovereignty only within that lens. While there is potential within the genre to communicate messages of indigenous sovereignty and dynamism in ways unusual in popular media, these game series (and the genre of which they are a part) remain mired in settler colonial assumptions.","PeriodicalId":22216,"journal":{"name":"The American Indian Quarterly","volume":"13 1","pages":"33 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83293620","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}