Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2017-10-25DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0080
N. Riseman
{"title":"Evolving Commemorations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service","authors":"N. Riseman","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116507521","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 : 2017-10-25DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0063
R. Sheffield
{"title":"Veterans’ Benefits and Indigenous Veterans of the Second World War in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States","authors":"R. Sheffield","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0063","url":null,"abstract":"s p r i n g 2 0 1 7 w i c a z o s a r e v i e w “one day a notice came out of the first sergeant’s office with my name on it. It was my pass to go back to the states! After thirtyfour months, five campaigns, and many battles, I was going home! I had made it, but my brother had not.” With these words, Hollis D. Stabler began his journey home and his transition from an Omaha soldier into a Native American veteran. It is difficult to imagine the immensity or complexity of the feelings that Second World War Indigenous service personnel experienced, after months or even years away in military services, in anticipating and living through their homecoming, “most filled with jubilant anticipation, some plagued by weariness, and a few haunted by the dark memories of battlefield carnage.” For many, the warmth of welcome, the kinship of family, and the familiarity of home deeply comforted them. “I didn’t believe that I was home until I got to see my folks,” one Canadian Cree veteran recalled. “I said to myself, ‘I’m on home ground now. I’m safe.’ ” Such commentaries highlight the shared humanity and commonalities in experiences between Indigenous service personnel and their nonIndigenous comrades in arms. At the most basic and personal level, the war’s end was about a young man or woman returning home to families and lives left behind, each story unique though replicated countless times across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Yet arriving home was only the beginning of a war veteran’s experience. Subsequently, the legislative and administrative architecture veterans’ Benefits and Indigenous veterans of the second World War in australia, Canada, new zealand, and the united states","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"252 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115618642","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 : 2017-10-25DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0005
N. Riseman
{"title":"Introduction: Brothers and Sisters in Arms","authors":"N. Riseman","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0005","url":null,"abstract":"s p r i n g 2 0 1 7 w i c a z o s a r e v i e w a round the world, the centenary of the First World War has accelerated what Jay Winter refers to as the memory boom of the twentieth century. Nations such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have invested significant taxpayer dollars into commemorations of the war, continuing processes of (falsely) positioning wartime service as central to each nation’s identity and development. In other nations, such as the United States, it is the Second World War that has led to similar mythologies about the goodness of the nation’s character and citizenry through ideas of “the Good War” and “the Greatest Generation.” Notwithstanding the criticisms of historians, war and conflict continue to form a central place within national collective memories. Being included within that memory is akin to being recognized as a member of the nationstate, with particular entitlements to be heard on matters of national or political importance. As military sociologists such as Morris Janowitz argue, minorities have often viewed military service as an opportunity to demonstrate acts of citizenship and, through such acts, to point to their military service in fights for civil and political rights. Scholars such as Warren Young and Ronald Krebs have debated the extent to which racial minorities may effectively leverage their position as service personnel or veterans to secure civil rights. Indeed, as both Young and Krebs argue, usually veteran or service member status alone is not enough to secure social change unless there are other catalysts within civil society that Introduction Brothers and Sisters in Arms","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124165535","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 : 2017-10-25DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0118
T. Holm
{"title":"Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls Revisited: The Research, the Findings, and Some Observations of Recent Native Veteran Readjustment","authors":"T. Holm","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0118","url":null,"abstract":"in early 1981 my longtime friend Harold “Hodge” Barse, a Sioux/ Wichita/Kiowa who was at the time a readjustment counselor with the Oklahoma City Veterans Administration Outreach program, called to ask me if I knew of any studies of Native American Vietnam veterans. I had to say that I did not know of any. With that telephone call we began an unfunded inquiry into the lives of American Indian Vietnam veterans. It was, in keeping with the foundations of American Indian studies, an activist, academic approach to what we perceived was a largely overlooked and misunderstood group of Indian people who not only deserved recognition for their military service but also merited attention to their specific needs in dealing with their return from a war zone. Both Hodge and I were veterans— he of the army, I of the Marine Corps— and very much aware of the various problems of our veterans and the social, political, and economic conditions they faced upon their homecoming. In particular, Hodge wanted to collect information on our veterans so that he, in turn, could make a case to the Readjustment Counseling Service of the then Veterans Administration to identify and deal with the specific needs of Native American veterans.","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122740474","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 : 2017-10-25DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0029
A. Grundlingh
{"title":"Pleading Patriots and Malleable Memories: The South African Cape Corps during the First World War (1914–1918) and Its Twentieth-Century Legacy","authors":"A. Grundlingh","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0029","url":null,"abstract":"s p r i n g 2 0 1 7 w i c a z o s a r e v i e w news of the outbreak of war in Europe prompted a surge of pro empire sentiments and effusive declarations of loyalty to Britain among many colored (mixedrace) people in the Union of South Africa. Orchestrating and encouraging these avowals was the African Political Organisation (APO) of Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman. The APO was the main political vehicle for colored people, and its newspaper, also by the same name, played an influential role in disseminating political ideas. The First World War initially dominated the entire content of the newspaper. Mass meetings were further occasions to provide voluble support. One such meeting in the landmark Cape Town City Hall was described as “of an enthusiastic character with the audience, which embraced practically all sections of the coloured community, almost filling the floor of the spacious hall.” A motion of loyalty to the British Crown was accepted with wild applause. Support for the British war effort went beyond the Cape Town epicenter, and thirty towns in the Cape countryside, as well as meetings in Johannesburg and Pretoria, weighed in with similar declarations of loyalty. To add substance to these patriotic sentiments, some colored notables established a special fund to help contribute to warrelated initiatives. Although the vociferous support might at face value be considered as blind, unthinking loyalty and difficult to comprehend, given the prevailing levels of discrimination against colored people in the Pleading Patriots and Malleable Memories the South African Cape Corps during the First World War (1914–1918) and its twentiethCentury Legacy","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131994894","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 : 2017-10-25DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0102
Maria Bargh, Quentin Whanau
{"title":"Māori as “Warriors” and “Locals” in the Private Military Industry","authors":"Maria Bargh, Quentin Whanau","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.32.1.0102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125412349","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":"Capturing Education: Envisioning and Building the First Tribal Colleges by Paul Boyer (review)","authors":"J. Tippeconnic, Pam Yabeny","doi":"10.5860/choice.196182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.196182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125910426","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 : 2017-07-05DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0005
L. Lee
{"title":"17th Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference Presidential Address: American Indian Studies/Native American Studies in a Twenty-First Century World: Practices and Opportunities","authors":"L. Lee","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121782692","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 : 2017-07-05DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0013
Todd C. Luce, C. Trafzer
{"title":"The Invisible Epidemic: Suicide and Accidental Death among the Yakama Indian People, 1911–1964","authors":"Todd C. Luce, C. Trafzer","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In December of 1992, federal authorities in eastern Oregon arrested Nathan Jim Jr. for killing two bald and two golden eagles. As a member of the federally recognized Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and a practitioner of the Waashat and Feather religions, Jim argued that he planned to use the feathers, at the behest of his religious elders, for traditional burial ceremonies. After his arrest, he spent fourteen months in a federal jail while awaiting trial. After his day in court, the presiding judge sentenced him to probation. Jim’s lawyer appealed his probation under the Religious Freedom Act, which, in theory, guarantees Native Americans the right to use eagle feathers in religious ceremonies. The court denied the appeal. Caught between the desire to fulfill his religious obligations that included obtaining eagle feathers for traditional rites, and the fear that the federal authorities would arrest him again and sentence him to an extended period of incarceration, Jim committed suicide. Jim’s tragic death underscores the tension between state power and Native American tradition, culture, and religion. Given the seemingly impossible choice between the hardships of a long prison sentence, and the psychically crushing possibility that he could not exercise the freedom to “live in the right way,” Jim chose death. His decision to take his own life out of feelings of frustration, fear, and anxiety were, the Invisible epidemic Suicide and Accidental Death among the yakama Indian People, 1911–1964","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122050317","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 : 2017-07-05DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0069
Majel Boxer
{"title":"John Joseph Mathews, the Osage Tribal Museum, and the emergence of an Indigenous Museum Model","authors":"Majel Boxer","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.31.2.0069","url":null,"abstract":"f a l l 2 0 1 6 w i c a z o s a r e v i e w one of the many ongoing exhibits featured in the Osage Tribal Museum is titled “2,229,” so named after the number of original Osage allottees recorded onto the membership rolls following the allotment of the reservation in 1906. To date, the exhibit features photographs of approximately 1,500 of the original 2,229 allotted members. Those who visit the Osage Tribal Museum are guided through several exhibits featuring the early history of the Osage people prior to their removal to Indian Territory, along with exhibits on the 1906 Osage Allotment Act and the subsequent allotment roll that was compiled before the rolls closed in 1907. For Osage members, the exhibit offers a people’s history of the nation— presented in a visually stunning manner— but also a genealogical history, as presentday tribal members can trace their lineages back to the 2,229 original allottees. Kathryn Redcorn, director and curator of the Osage Tribal Museum, is responsible for envisioning the exhibit and also for creating an abridged version that traveled in 2006 to St. Louis, Missouri, the traditional homelands of the Osage people. This essay thus traces the history of the Osage Tribal Museum, from the time it opened its doors in 1938 to its role in precipitating the emergence of a new tribal museum model. Born on November 16, 1894, Osage historian, writer, tribal councilman, and author John Joseph Mathews would write late in his life about his personal and professional interest in preserving the cultural knowledge of his Osage community: “2,229” John Joseph Mathews, the Osage Tribal Museum, and the emergence of an Indigenous Museum Model","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133889306","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}