American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 481-494
Description
Literary criticism article which examines Black Hawk: An Autobiography and argues that in addition to its value as a historical text, it should also be considered as an act of literary resistance against the narratives imposed on Indigenous peoples by mainstream society.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 168-203
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Critical essay in which the author argues that Coups’s autobiography, originally published in 1930 as American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty- coups, Chief of the Crows is best read as multivocal text that presents both human and more-than-human voices and perspectives.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer, 1990, pp. 259-276
Description
Author describes the life of his grandmother, articulating the ways that the United States has changed and developed since her birth in 1890, discusses the effects of these changes and and developments on the Choctaw Nation.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, no. 132, 1998, pp. 61-78
Description
Presents an account of what most elderly speakers of Oklahoma Native American languages feel about their languages and the issues and problems of designing programs for language revitalization.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 168-204
Description
Authors document the life the Californian Indigenous man purported to be 121 years old and "last of his race" in 1873 and contemplate what can be learned from investigating the true stories of Indigenous centenarians; discusses the discourse of extinction surrounding centenarians, and the role it plays in the imagination of settler culture.
American Literary History, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter, 2007, pp. 771-799
Description
Discusses the events of the Black Hawk War of 1832 which resulted in the creation of "Peace and Friendship" medals, an outcome of U.S. practices in Treaty negotiations.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 91-103
Description
The author uses published documents, archival sources, and family interviews to construct a biography of the Diné medicine man, Pete Price (also called Chief Silagotio in some media accounts).
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, January 10, 2019, pp. 1-10
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Article examines the eyewitness accounts of profound aurora borealis displays on the night of Black Elk’s death (August 19, 1950) in the context of scientific and astronomical reports. Considers the narrative in within the framework of ethnoastronomy which combines scientific accounts with eyewitness reports and interpreting the meaning of an event through a cultural lens.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 171-193
Description
Literary criticism article that explores the underlying themes at work in the Autobiography of Delfina Cuero. Discusses bi-culturalism, borderlands theory, ethnocriticism, and transculturation.