Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/wic.2021.a903668
S. Mcmanus
{"title":"Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (review)","authors":"S. Mcmanus","doi":"10.1353/wic.2021.a903668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2021.a903668","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116021073","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}
Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/wic.2021.a903665
Ryan Crosschild, Gina Starblanket, Daniel Voth, T. Hubbard, Leroy Litle Bear
{"title":"Awakening Buffalo Consciousness: Lessons, Theory, and Practice from the Buffalo Treaty","authors":"Ryan Crosschild, Gina Starblanket, Daniel Voth, T. Hubbard, Leroy Litle Bear","doi":"10.1353/wic.2021.a903665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2021.a903665","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study examines the development and implications of the international Buffalo Treaty, the first inter-Indigenous treaty of its kind in over 200 years. The research brings together scholars from different plains Indigenous peoples to learn from and share with renowned Blackfoot scholar and Buffalo Treaty Emissary Dr. Leroy Little Bear. The research details the movement to bring Indigenous nations on either side of the 49th parallel together in common cause to return buffalo to Indigenous landscapes and territories, a task necessitated by the buffalo genocide in the 19th century. In addition, we argue that the Buffalo Treaty is part of a much larger effort to reinvigorate Indigenous modes of relating between people, non-human animals, and lands and waters. We draw from Dr. Little Bear to enunciate meaning of buffalo consciousness, and show how the Buffalo Treaty movement was transformed from an originally Blackfoot-driven initiative into an Indigenous international treaty between multiple peoples and the buffalo. By learning from the buffalo in their role as a keystone species, we are able develop new orientations to improving relationships among Indigenous peoples and non-human relations. The work concludes with new interventions on using treaty making to decolonize Indigenous peoples' modes of governance in service of facilitating the resurgence of relational forms of politics.","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131519173","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}
Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/wic.2021.a903664
W. S. Greyeyes
{"title":"Presidential Address at the AISA 24th Annual Conference, Arizona State University, February 2, 2023","authors":"W. S. Greyeyes","doi":"10.1353/wic.2021.a903664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2021.a903664","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"4614 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134313768","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}
Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/wic.2021.a903666
H. Kivalahula-Uddin
{"title":"Decolonization of Tribal Schools","authors":"H. Kivalahula-Uddin","doi":"10.1353/wic.2021.a903666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2021.a903666","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study utilized the culturally responsive qualitative methodology of phenomenology to provide an opportunity for eight Puyallup tribal elders to share their lived stories while providing insights into the impact of intergenerational historical trauma upon their lives. The elders provided suggestions about how to improve student achievement by facilitating a decolonization intervention program for tribal school employees derived from elder Indigenous knowledge. The goals of the program would be to provide information about tribal history, historical trauma, the Twulshootseed (txʷəlšucid) language, and our traditional ways along with professional learning communities, peer mentoring, and follow-up trainings. The study findings suggest a decolonization intervention program is the most important first step for P-12 tribal schools to improve academic achievement.","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121307955","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}
Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/wic.2021.a903670
Cornel D. Pewewardy
{"title":"A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation by Leo K. Killsback (review)","authors":"Cornel D. Pewewardy","doi":"10.1353/wic.2021.a903670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2021.a903670","url":null,"abstract":"S p r i n g 2 0 2 1 W i C A Z O S A r E V i E W American society, where science is the dominant means of explaining life and where Christian stories and ideologies abound. It seems there will always be a mismatch in beliefs, but this does not mean we cannot live together and work to build and rebuild spiritually healthy societies. As modern Cheyenne begin to spiritually reawaken and decolonize their views of traditional Cheyenne spiritual practices and oral traditions, I believe they will be more inclined to rely on the old spiritual ways. Nothing fits a Cheyenne like Cheyenne spirituality. Killsback intentionally omits a lot of information for protection and out of respect for Cheyenne traditional ways. Unfortunately, simply reading and studying the rituals and principles described in his book cannot lead a person to gain a complete understanding of the Cheyenne ceremonial realm and concept of spirituality. Nor can such study generate worthy spiritual leaders. Those who wish to decolonize need a good place to start, and what better place than the origins of a nation and its sovereignty.","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122688156","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}
Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/wic.2021.a903667
Emily Pollard
{"title":"Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha 'Āina, and Ea by Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (review)","authors":"Emily Pollard","doi":"10.1353/wic.2021.a903667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2021.a903667","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134641152","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}
Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/wic.2021.a903669
Cornel D. Pewewardy
{"title":"A Sovereign People: Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law, and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation by Leo K. Killsback (review)","authors":"Cornel D. Pewewardy","doi":"10.1353/wic.2021.a903669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2021.a903669","url":null,"abstract":"S p r i n g 2 0 2 1 W i C A Z O S A r E V i E W Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in 2019, it was but the latest chapter in the ongoing war against Indigenous peoples. The U.S. government destroyed O’odham burial sites, artifacts, petroglyphs, and ancient saguaro relatives on the grounds that it was “protecting the O’odham and their land from immigrants who supposedly threaten to turn the land ‘wild,’ or return it to a savage and lawless frontier” (p. 143). For the O’odham, however, land is only “wild” when it is uncared for, not when it is empty of all human presence. Unsettled Borders is a small monograph with enormous ambition and scope. By combining past, present, and future; migrant and Indigenous histories; critical theories from half a dozen disciplines; drones and the erotics of beekeeping, it will be of great interest to a wide range of border studies scholars. It is a timely reminder that understanding more about how border regimes come into being is key to dismantling them.","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133562678","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":"Using Stories to Teach","authors":"Aretha Matt","doi":"10.1353/wic.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"S P R I N G & F A L L 2 0 2 0 W I C A Z O S A R E V I E W I grew up on the Navajo reservation during the 1980s and 1990s. I attended a public school in a small rural community and graduated with about sixty other students. I left my home in Querino Canyon, Arizona, two weeks after graduation to attend a summer bridge program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. This program was designed to integrate students of color successfully into colleges and universities. Students selected for this program were also firstgeneration college students or students from lowincome backgrounds. This program helped me to integrate successfully because they were intrusive and continued their support into my second year of college. I credit this program for my success as an undergraduate student because they provided the resources and support that I needed to acculturate and operate in a new academic environment. I faced challenges and setbacks as a college student; but I did not allow these to deter my decision to complete degrees, including a doctoral degree in English. Along the way, I found that many educators and administrators at colleges and universities were available and supportive when it came to acculturating students to the academic environment; however, I also learned that many of them lacked understanding about Native Americans and our cultures. During my time as a graduate assistant instructor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, I was categorized by faculty and graduate students on separate occasions as “quiet,” “introverted,” or “silent.” They would also usually follow their remarks with a comment Using Stories to Teach","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115124076","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}