Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-23
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Discusses the Pequot activist and writer's attempts to subvert the myth of the "Vanishing American", and his unique position as an Indian intellectual in the early 1800s.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 221-228
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An analysis of prophets as an extension of traditional Indigenous shamans and how their similarities allowed prophets to achieve legitimacy within Indigenous communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 275-296
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Examines the strategies used by Harry C. Hale to communicate with and gain the trust of Hunkpapa peoples following the death of Sitting Bull in December of 1890.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 127-150
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Looks into the lives of the Berdache or gender-mixed Indigenous leaders We'wha and Klah and how their gender status provided them with a variety of unique skills, insights, and interaction with the rest of American society.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 141-177
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Article examines the ways that the Yamacraw Leader Tomochichi has been represented and misrepresented in historical texts and narratives surrounding the settlement of the Georgia; works to reconstruct a more accurate biography.