Wicazo Sa ReviewPub Date : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0047
W. Kincaid
{"title":"Russell Means Interview: November 30, 2011, Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona","authors":"W. Kincaid","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"means: It started out with, as I mentioned in my talk, the five acts of genocide as defined by the international community.1 The United States literally and figuratively holds us as prisoners. What no one realizes is that federally recognized reservations are considered prisoner of war camps, and that is a fact. In order for the trust status2 to continue, the United States has to legally take the position that a condition of war exists with Indians. The only time when the war ceases is when we leave the confines of the prisoner of war camp. That’s why the Constitution of the United States of America does not apply to Indian people on a federally recognized reservation or on federal trust land. We have no protections, zero protections, and tribal governments are the wardens and gatekeepers. These governments are not charged by the U.S. Constitution to rule, but by a congressional mandate, guided by Supreme Court decisions, to do so. On reservations, we have no protections against illegal search and seizure or any U.S. constitutional rights whatsoever. We have tribal constitutions that mean nothing in law. You cannot take that tribal constitution to a federal court and have it ruled on whether it has been delegated to the tribal government by the U.S. government. I found out through my own cases that federal courts have two avenues of law. One is that Indians are a political entity Russell Means Interview November 30, 2011, Mesa Community College, Mesa, arizona","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114991463","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 : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0029
W. Kincaid
{"title":"Remembering a Lakotah Warrior: Russell Means","authors":"W. Kincaid","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0029","url":null,"abstract":"S P R I N G 2 0 1 4 W I C A Z O S A R E V I E W I met Russell Means for the first time in the spring of 2012 when he spoke to a large audience at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Although weakened from illness, he aroused an audience consisting of past and present American Indian Movement members, students, community members, faculty, and staff with a passionate oration about such issues as Indian struggles against colonialism for sovereignty, genocide, human rights, economic independence, religious freedom, and cultural survival. He expressed a theme noting that Indian peoples and nations were at war for their social, political, and economic survival. On several occasions during the next, final months of his life, I had the good fortune to learn more about his philosophies, beliefs, and life’s work. I never expected to meet Russell Means so the opportunity to do so was humbling. What I knew about him was mainly focused on his involvement with grassroots movements such as the American Indian Movement and more recently, the “Republic of Lakotah” movement in his homeland. In the latter movement, Russell was attempting to regain/retain tribal inherent rights by approaching the United Nations for support. I expected to meet a man who could mentor me in developing ideas to promote nation building in Indigenous communities dealing with colonial genocide. He gave me much more than that. During our the first meeting in Mesa, aware that I was a law student, he declared, “I hate lawyers.” I responded by saying “Me, too.” Obviously, I did not actually hate lawyers and neither did Russell. However, Remembering a Lakotah Warrior russell Means","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122424650","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 : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5749/wicazosareview.29.1.0034
Bayard Johnson
{"title":"Russell Means: Why He Matters to You","authors":"Bayard Johnson","doi":"10.5749/wicazosareview.29.1.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/wicazosareview.29.1.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Wake up, there’s a war goin’ on.” This was Russell Means’s way of waking you up when he called at zerodarkthirty in the morning, starting his day. Russell always got up with the Morning Star. But on this Monday morning, October 22, Russell Means’s wife, Pearl, was on the phone. She was calling to tell us that Russell had joined the ancestors earlier that morning. He walked on with the Morning Star. A little over a year before, Russell and Pearl stopped by for dinner. His neck was swollen and puffy, swallowing and talking were painful. He’d just come from a doctor’s appointment. “On Monday,” he said as he sat down at the table, “they’re going to give me my ETA to the Spirit World.” When the doctor told Russell he had terminal cancer, Russell turned to look at Pearl to see how she was taking the news. They told him his best option was a radical tracheotomy. He would be confined to a wheelchair, unable to walk, talk, eat, or swallow. Life expectancy was two months to two years. “Sure, they’d like to cut out my tongue,” said Russell. “Forget it.”","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116183128","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 : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0014
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
{"title":"Twentieth-Century American Indian Political Dissent and Russell Means","authors":"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123454141","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 : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0008
Pearl Denetclaw Daniel-Means
{"title":"Almost Too Much for the Average Indian","authors":"Pearl Denetclaw Daniel-Means","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.29.1.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114201076","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 : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5749/wicazosareview.29.1.0019
Manuel F. Pino
{"title":"The Life and Legacy of an Oglala Lakotah Patriot: Russell Charles Means","authors":"Manuel F. Pino","doi":"10.5749/wicazosareview.29.1.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/wicazosareview.29.1.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114175041","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 : 2013-10-12DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0087
K. J. White
{"title":"Rousing a Curiosity in Hewitt’s Iroquois Cosmologies","authors":"K. J. White","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0087","url":null,"abstract":"F A L L 2 0 1 3 W I C A Z O S A R E V I E W Through my research on the work of John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, I found myself in a unique position to challenge current thinking in the field, champion J. N. B. Hewitt, and rethink the cosmologies of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). For too long creation has been reduced to a narrative of Skywoman’s descent into a watercovered world, where she and the twins of creation would come to rest and reside on the Turtle’s back. This narrative has many variations throughout the northeastern woodland indigenous peoples. In this essay, I intend to challenge accepted thinking that reduced this narrative to nine plot points, as William Fenton did in his research. Further, I intend to demonstrate why we must now scour the Hewitt texts in order to excite a discourse about where and how these narratives differ and thus demonstrate distinctive cultural interpretations illustrating the uniqueness of each individual Haudenosaunee nation. By revisiting Hewitt’s works on the cosmologies, new theories and interpretations can be developed and discussed. Hewitt was of Tuscarora descent, and a lifelong scholar of the Haudenosaunee. Today, Haudenosaunee scholars are scouring understudied texts and archives and recovering new information for the purpose of stimulating dialogues in our own communities and with one another. Hewitt published his work on the cosmologies in two parts— one in 1903, and the second in 1928. Although Hewitt is acknowledged as an authority, he remains largely absent from contemporary conversations Rousing a Curiosity in hewitt’s iroquois Cosmologies","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114425076","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 : 2013-10-12DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0060
Mandy Suhr-Sytsma
{"title":"In the Light of Reverence and the Rhetoric of American Indian Religious Freedom: Negotiating Rights and Responsibilities in the Struggle to Protect Sacred Lands","authors":"Mandy Suhr-Sytsma","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132471606","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 : 2013-10-12DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0005
David Martínez
{"title":"Remembering the Thirty-Eight: Abraham Lincoln, the Dakota, and the U.S. War on Barbarism","authors":"David Martínez","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124770469","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 : 2013-10-12DOI: 10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0030
Joy H. Greenberg, Gregory Greenberg
{"title":"Native American Narratives as Ecoethical Discourse in Land-Use Consultations","authors":"Joy H. Greenberg, Gregory Greenberg","doi":"10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/WICAZOSAREVIEW.28.2.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132456967","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}