Explores how differing genres of Native storytelling process the contemporary literatures of removal within the Trail of Tears, a forced relocation, following passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 155-172
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Commentary on the assertions that the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other Native American confederacies helped shape ideas of democracy the early U.S. and Europe.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 29-53
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Presents Indian “intellectual” as a writer possessing political awareness who represents tribal community while being on the margins of traditional academia.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 1-31
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Discussion about nations being imagined, traditions invented and claims to the contrary being dismissed. The article argues that to denial authenticity to cultural claims, beyond localized constructions, is a denial of the past.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 4, Series 2; European Writings on Native American Literatures, Winter, 1996, pp. [47]-60
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Describes the content of the Hopi film and analyzes it in terms of five elements: time, textual inserts, visual track, soundtrack, and film techniques.
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Journal of Religion & Film, vol. 18, no. 1, 2014, p. Article 40
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Film reviews of:
40 Years Celebrating Wounded Knee directed by Christopher Marshall.
The Medicine Game directed by Lukas Korver.
Shouting Secrets directed by Korinna Sehringer.
Spirit in Glass: Plateau Native Beadwork.
Winter in the Blood directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith.
Yellow Fever: The Navajo Uranium Legacy directed by Sophie Rousmaniere.