"This paper focuses on Native American agency and their desire to attain the political and legal rights that would give them power to enforce treaty provisions, placing Native Americans at the center of the decision-making".
Book review of three books: The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition edited by Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee and Elders Cultural Advisory Council, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Silko: Writing Storyteller and Medicine Woman by Brewster E. Fitz.
Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today by Lori Marie Carlson.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 4, 2009, pp. 139-149
Description
Comments on the imminence of the Lakota language being lost and the many decisions needed to be made in order to keep the language vibrant, including choosing which set of diacritics to use.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 24, no. 2, Native Feminism, Fall, 2009, pp. 131-148
Description
"... examines the conflation of American and Navajo nationalisms by scrutinizing the intersections of war, gender, and Diné tradition and the ways in which the Diné have drawn upon tradition to support U.S. militarism ...
Focuses on three of the "grandmothers" of Native theatre: Eizabeth Miguel (aka Lisa Mayo), Gloria Miguel and Muriel Miguel, who now face discrimination in the theatre world due to their advanced age.
Looks at how social enterprise applied to tourism can offer Indigenous peoples opportunities to develop their economic potential and to become self-sufficient communities.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 98-101
Description
Book review of: The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft edited by Robert Dale Parker.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 98.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chie "Siqiñiq" Sakakibara
Description
Contends that environmental changes are culturally processed through storytelling.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 7-23
Description
Argues that consultation processes, with the United States administration, need to continue and that reporting requirements and accountability need to be put in place in order to ensure that important issues are addressed.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 2, K-12 Education, Winter, 2009, p. 6
Description
Brief profile of five authors who contribute to the Tribal College Journal: Mary Henson, LaVinia Pauline Snowball, Patty Talahongva, Kurt Umbhau, David W. Bland.