{"title":"State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting","authors":"Darryl Leroux","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.2.leroux","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.2.leroux","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the claims to an Indigenous identity made by the four state-recognized Abenaki tribes in Vermont through an analysis of their petition for federal acknowledgement (1982–2005) and applications for state recognition (2010–2012). A detailed analysis of their claims demonstrates that the tribes are not Abenaki, but instead, represent the descendants of French Canadians who immigrated to the Champlain Valley of northwestern Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century. In this case study of what the anthropologist Circe Sturm has called “race shifting,” I demonstrate how the politics of recognition, which do not include the kin-making and relations of Indigenous nations, serve the interests of settler colonialism under the guise of decolonization. I attribute the emergence of race shifting along three vectors: the move away from white identity post-Civil Rights era; the lack of a tribal presence in Vermont; and the flaws in the state recognition process.","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49482318","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":"My Grandma Said, \"Bring Her to Me\"","authors":"E. Hicks, J. Liddell, J. Liddell","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.2.hicks_liddell","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.2.hicks_liddell","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the health-care access experiences of Indigenous members of a Gulf Coast, non-federally recognized tribe. Research exploring the experiences of non-federally recognized tribes is needed, as these tribes lack resources available to federally recognized tribes. Using a qualitative description research approach and through partnership with a community advisory board, thirty-one semi-structured life-course interviews were conducted with women tribal members. A qualitative descriptive analytic approach revealed the following key themes: First Health-Care Experiences; Going to Family Members for Health Care; Going to Indigenous Healers for Health Care and; Generational Changes in the Transmission of Traditional Knowledge. Our findings highlight the role that family members and Indigenous healers play in addressing health-care gaps and needs for tribal members. In addition, results suggest that Indigenous healers are respected, valued members of the community, and there is concern that healing knowledge is not being passed down to future generations. This research addresses a gap in the need for holistic understandings of Indigenous women’s reproductive and sexual health care, which is required for the development of interventions which not only address social justice issues and weaknesses in the health-care system, but that also promote the existing strengths and resources in Indigenous communities.","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42929787","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":"The Most Valuable Lands","authors":"Randy A. John, Alicia Puglionesi","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.2.john-puglionesi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.2.john-puglionesi","url":null,"abstract":"The oil-producing regions of western Pennsylvania and New York are legendary as the birthplace of the modern petroleum industry; as with any narrative of American origins, it is important to scrutinize the role of racism and colonialism in establishing narratives that render Indigenous people as ghosts, guides, or givers who facilitate white access to resources while fading into a mythical past. Such narratives certainly proliferated in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular press, where petroleum was initially known by its regional moniker, “Seneca Oil,” and dreams of “Indian spirits” were said to lead prospectors to successful holes. The reality was that the Seneca people waged active legal and political battles to secure their rights to land, resources, and sacred sites in Pennsylvania and New York throughout the height of the oil boom. Their historical relationship with oil as a healing natural substance led leaders to preserve the Oil Spring Territory between 1797 and 1801; a century later, Seneca leaders engaged in ever-more complex negotiations with white-owned oil companies, and wound up in an existential fight against the Americans attempting to liquidate their treaty-protected territories.","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46630568","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":"Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country. By Fay A. Yarbrough.","authors":"M. Sparacio","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.2.reviews.sparacio","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.2.reviews.sparacio","url":null,"abstract":"none","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45204429","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":"Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege. Edited by Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien.","authors":"J. Bowes","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.2.reviews.bowes","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.2.reviews.bowes","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48297010","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":"“Sometimes My People Get Mad When the Blackfeet Kill Us”: A Documentary History of the Salish and Pend d’Oreille Indians, 1845–1874. Edited by Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald.","authors":"David R. M. Beck","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.1.reviews.beck","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.1.reviews.beck","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41665034","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":"Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest. By Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita.","authors":"L. C. Peterson","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.1.reviews.peterson","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.1.reviews.peterson","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44465007","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}
Hine-iti-moana Greensill, Samantha Prendergast, Wanda Ieremia-Allan, Mere Taito
{"title":"He wahine māia, he wahine toa: A Gathering of Reflections on the Work of Haunani-Kay Trask","authors":"Hine-iti-moana Greensill, Samantha Prendergast, Wanda Ieremia-Allan, Mere Taito","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.1.greensill","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.1.greensill","url":null,"abstract":"In 1985, Haunani-Kay Trask visited Aotearoa contributing critical perspectives to a Pacific studies conference at the University of Auckland. Observing the disturbing absence of Indigenous women speakers at the conference, Dr. Trask finished her keynote early, giving her remaining time to two Māori women, Atareta Poananga and Titewhai Harawira. As a group of Indigenous Pacific women negotiating our own place in the academy, this conscious political act is one of many forms of Haunani-Kay Trask’s activism that has inspired us. From various parts of Te Moana Nui a Kiwa, we come together to weave stories of our engagements in the intellectual and activist work of Haunani-Kay Trask. In distinctive ways, we acknowledge Dr. Trask’s legacy and reflect on the inspiration and insight that her work has provided for us as Native daughters of the Pacific and as emerging scholars. Drawing on our own unique sea, land, and skyscapes, our histories of colonialism and resistance, and our creative and intellectual journeys, we share the multiplicity of ways in which Haunani-Kay Trask’s work speaks to our hearts and minds. Reflecting on her work as a scholar, poet, and activist, we weave together our words of respect, love, and admiration, and we consider the ways in which her scholarship continues to have ongoing relevance to us all.","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46607672","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":"From a Pacific Daughter: Haunani-Kay Trask’s Legacy for Indigenous Pacific Feminisms","authors":"Ha'åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.1.san-nicolas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.1.san-nicolas","url":null,"abstract":"Adding to her profound legacy of resistance to colonization and activism for Hawai‘i and Kānaka Maoli, this essay pays tribute to Haunani-Kay Trask and explores the ways in which her various creative and scholarly publications can be used as theories and methodologies in a growing area of study called Indigenous Pacific feminisms. This paper acknowledges that, though Trask disavowed herself from feminism toward the latter part of her life, it is critical to share the significance of her contributions to Indigenous Pacific feminisms as shaping “baskets of resilience” for students, organizers, and decolonial dreamers in the Pacific and diaspora.","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47716698","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":"The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World. By Anton Treuer.","authors":"B. Kracht","doi":"10.17953/aicrj.46.1.reviews.kracht","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.46.1.reviews.kracht","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80424,"journal":{"name":"American Indian culture and research journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44509080","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}