{"title":"Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough (review)","authors":"Rose Stremlau","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82170314","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":"Conversations with LeAnne Howe ed. by Kirsten L. Squint (review)","authors":"J. Mackay","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81097406","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":"Transforming Diné Education: Innovations in Pedagogies and Practice ed. by Pedro Vallejo and Vincent Werito (review)","authors":"Vanessa Anthony‐Stevens","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904216","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79162293","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":"Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador by Teresa A. Velásquez (review)","authors":"Jaime Hoogesteger","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904208","url":null,"abstract":"POLITICS","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83181153","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":"Beyond Rights: The Nisga'a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships by Carole Blackburn (review)","authors":"R. Barsh","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85808917","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":"Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas by Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks (review)","authors":"Danielle D. Lucero","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88488914","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":"\"Anohebasisiro Nimanibota / We Want to Talk to the Honored One\": Timucua Language and its Uses, Silences, and Protests","authors":"Alejandra Dubcovsky, G. Broadwell","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904183","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1688, five Timucua Native chiefs wrote a brief letter welcoming the new Spanish governor to La Florida, or so the accompanying Spanish translation of the letter suggests. The original Timucua words tell another story. Combining two methodologies, linguistic anthropology and history, we seek to offer more than a new translation of a neglected seventeenth-century Native-language text. First, we examine the ways in which the Timucua letter-writers used their language. We show the select grammatical and rhetorical strategies Timucua writers used to make arguments, communicate displeasure, and express themselves by comparing the 1688 epistle with the only other surviving Timucua letter, written in 1651. Second, we ground the letter in its historical context. Placing the 1688 Timucua epistle alongside other letters and dispatches from the time, we explore the different ways Timucua people made sense of the violence and disruptions affecting their homelands. Centering Timucua words and experiences shows the limits of colonial control and, more importantly, the powerful possibilities afforded by working with Native language texts.","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87450010","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":"Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816–1916 by Christina Dickerson-Cousin (review)","authors":"R. Collins","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89375526","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":"A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (review)","authors":"H. Stark","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88895340","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}
L. Leddy, Brittany Luby, K. McLeod, E. Stelter, K. Anderson
{"title":"Refusing Confederation: Indigenous Feminist Performance as a Tool for Colonial Reckoning and Community (Re)Building","authors":"L. Leddy, Brittany Luby, K. McLeod, E. Stelter, K. Anderson","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.a904181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.a904181","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2017, the Kika'ige Historical Society, an Indigenous women's performance troupe based in Guelph, Canada, created Tabling 150 in response to celebrations of Canada's sesquicentennial. Tabling 150 presented an opportunity for Indigenous women to engage in truth-telling amid celebrations of settler-colonial nationalism. By taking on personas of the \"Grannies of Confederation,\" a play on the title of the well-known painting The Fathers of Confederation, the performers participated in Native feminist spatial practice, creating new orders through felt theory, presencing, and enacting refusals within their time and place in the academy. Drawing on interviews with the performers, we examine questions of the felt experience of doing Indigenous artivist resistance. Data from the participant performers was inductively coded, revealing four prominent themes: connecting with ancestors, taking space as resistance, community solidarity and empowerment, and Indigenous women's work in spatial practice while Indigenizing the academy. The analysis revealed that performance is an effective tool for calling out Canada's mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples at Confederation and the social inequities encoded into Canadian law during a period of settler-colonial celebration. The collective act of truth-telling by Indigenous performers strengthened a community through which it became safe to reflect upon and challenge colonial norms.","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76296860","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}