NWSA Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 123-134
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Book reviews of:
Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Gretchen M. Bataille and Laurie Lisa,
Sifters: Native American Women's Lives edited by Theda Perdue,
Te Ata: Chickasaw Storyteller, American Treasure by Richard Green,
Esther Ross: Stillaguamish Champion by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown,
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, Loose Cannons by Paula Gunn Allen,
Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
Health Care For Women International, vol. 24, no. 4, April 2003, pp. 340-354
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Presents unstructured interviews of the lives, backgrounds, and traditional healing practices of six Ojibwa and Cree women healers from Canada and the United States.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 13-24
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Uses artist Jimmie Durham and the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World to illustrate the issues connected with Indigenous identity. Jimmie Durham is a self-proclaimed Cherokee artist, whose ethnicity has been challenged by the Cherokee Nation.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 33-60
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Tells part of the story of the landmark Supreme Court case United States, as Guardian of the Hualapai Indians of Arizona v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co. (1941) and looks closely at a brief period in Mahone’s life, one in which he went from student to soldier to activist.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 58-83
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Author discusses the 1846 translation and annotation of Black Hawk’s autobiography by the Dutch pastor Rinse Posthumus; offers critical commentary on Posthumus’ station and politics as an influencing factor in his additions to and translation of the text.
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.
Features the Canadian architect, Douglas Cardinal, who designed the Canadian Museum of Civilization, First Nations University of Canada and the National Museum of the American Indian. Includes links to biography, project list, organic design, and interpretations.
Brief biography of author and physician, whose writings focused on Native American spirituality, morality and mythology. Best-known for the autobiographical works Indian Boyhood and From the Deep Woods to Civilization.
Includes links to biography of the Dakota physician and writer, comments on his life and work, bibliography and excerpts from his writings, photos and slideshows.
Pimatziwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 1-16
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Responses from three people on the theme of community health: Rose Martial, a community representative, Ann C. Macaulay, a family physician researching diabetes in Kahawake Territory and William Freeman, a professor at North West Indian College and former director of Research for the Indian Health Service (USA).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 25-28
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Discussion of the controversy surrounding the identity of artist Jimmie Durham and the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World. Durham's claims to having Cherokee ancestry are denied by the Cherokee Nation. Author argues that by displaying Durham's works the art establishment may be seen to be substantiating his claims and invalidating tribes' sovereignty over citizenship.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [i]-iii
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Introduces the thematic issue devoted to the "renowned American Indian poet, essayist, emailer, and smooth talker".
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Mosaic (Winnipeg), vol. 36, no. 1, March 2003, pp. 121-134
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Commonalities in Native American and Mexican American healing practices as evidenced in the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolpho Anaya and Ana Castillo.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 1-38
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Examines how the author's knowledge of the Navajo culture and the concept hozho allow her to transform a character who could be viewed as victim into a powerful individual.
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Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education , vol. 30, no. 4, Tribal College Women, Summer, May 5, 2019, p. [?]
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Article profiles two women who were instrumental in the creation of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs): Ruth Roessel founder and president of Navajo Community College (now Diné College), and Carol Davis, a founding member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC).
Biography of an artist whose exhibition was mounted at the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center from November 8, 2003-February 1, 2004.
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 99-102
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Book review of: Telling a Good One by Theodore Rios and Kathleen Mullen Sands.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer-Fall, 2003, pp. 667-696
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Biographical sketch of the author of Waterlily, which was not published until 1988, forty years after it was completed and seventeen years after her death.