Western American Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 46-64
Description
Discusses play which compares quilting perspectives of quiltmaker Mona Gray, who sees quilts as a link to family and LuAnne Jorgensen, a customer who sees them as a commodity.
Describes the 8 week Arctic tour of Invitation: the Quilt of Belonging, which involved the transport of a16 person team and the120 feet long, 10 feet high quilt with 263 blocks, one for each nation of the world.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 85-143
Description
Book reviews of:
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage by Gerald Vizenor.
Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River edited by Alexander Moore.
The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna annotated and illustrated by Hilary Stewart.
A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson edited by W. David Baird.
Native American Baskertry: An Annotated Bibliography complied by Frank W.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, 2005, pp. 119-172
Description
Book reviews of:
The American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Beck.
The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad.
Assimilation’s Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System by Edwin L. Chalcraft.
Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan.
Every Day Is a Good Day by Wilma Mankiller.
Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania edited by William A.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, 1990, pp. 127-181
Description
Book reviews of:
Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast edited by Peter Wood.
Navajo Textiles: The William Randolph Hearst Collection by Nancy J. Blomberg.
Utmost Good Faith: Patterns of Apache-Mexican Hostilities in Northern Chihuahua Border Warfare, 1821-1848 by William B. Griffen.
The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 121-178
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indians in U.S. History by Roger L. Nichols.
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat.
Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney.
“The Cherokee Night” and Other Plays by Lynn Riggs.
Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World by Robbie Ethridge.
Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies edited by Bruce E. Johansen.
Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption by Enrique R.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 137-188
Description
Book reviews of:
America’s Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900 by Ruth Spack.
Anthropologists and Indians in the New South edited by Rachel A. Bonney and J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 1998, pp. 249-323
Description
Book review of:
Agayuliyararput: Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup’ik Masks and the Stories They Tell by Marie Meade.
American Indians in World War I, at War and at Home by Thomas A. Britten.
Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers edited and with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer.
The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901 by F. Todd Smith.
Dahcotah: Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling by Mary Henderson Eastman.
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 16, no. 4, Special issue: Materializing identities, December 2011, pp. 416-428
Description
Examines the conflicting ways in which artifacts and cultural heritage of First Nations are understood and how contradictory positions are to be reconciled.
Moccasin Corner: Southern Plains Men's Moccasins with Fringe: Part IV: Women's Leggings: The End of Series Test
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Kostelnik
Whispering Wind, vol. 44, no. 6, 2016, pp. 17-25
Description
Summary of attributes of moccasins originating with the Southern Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Comanche, and brief explanation of women's styles for each group.
Textile, vol. 14, no. 1, Crafting Community, 2016, pp. 84-97
Description
Discussion of the commemorative installation comprised of embellished moccasin vamps or tongues created in memory of missing and murdered women. Project was initiated by artist Christi Belcourt and currently consists of over 1700 pairs.
The Study of Material Culture: The Case of Southwest Textiles
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanna Baizerman
Museum Anthropology, vol. 13, no. 2, May 1989, pp. 14-18
Description
Looks at the ethnic boundary art world by using publications on Southwest textiles, especially those done by the Navajo. In this way material culture in general can be studied.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
1995 Margaret Laurence lecture at Trent University by the artist and quilt maker Alice Olsen Williams. The version given here has been adapted, revised and edited.
Discusses materials used to produce fibers for fabrics including hemp, dogbane, milkweed, moosewood, nettle and shredded cedar, basswood and mulberry barks.