Biography, vol. 31, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 397-428
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Looks at the journal by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed recounting colonial contact between whites and Indigenous people in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908–09.
American Literature, vol. 80, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 611-613
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Book reviews of: Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer by Michael A. Elliot; Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature by Kenneth Lincoln.
American Literature, vol. 80, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 416-419
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Book reviews of 4 books:
Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos by Mary Lawlor.
Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction by Annette Trefzer.
Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief by David Murray.
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, 2008, pp. 145-200
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Book reviews of 20 books:
Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton.
The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas.
Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris.
Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden.
First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland.
Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 177-231
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Book reviews of 18 books:
Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie.
Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler.
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg.
How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield.
I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John.
Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 85-89
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Book review of: Border Crossings by Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton and Jennifer Andrews.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 31-42
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Examines to what extent Native writers, critics, and researchers, as well as non-Native people who work in Native Studies, are led or constrained by beliefs about what is traditional, spiritually appropriate, politically effective and beneficial to Native communities.
Finding Common Ground: Re-Examining the Theme of Renewal in James Welch's The Death of Jim Loney
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Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 249, 2008, pp. 342-343
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Argues that Jim Loney's life symbolizes a regeneration of Aboriginal American culture. This article was originally published as "Finding Common Ground: Re-Examining the Theme of Renewal in James Welch's The Death of Jim Loney" in South Dakota Review vol. 40, no. 4, (winter 2002) at pages 67-87.
For article enter title above (Finding Common Ground) in Gale's "Basic Search."
Focuses on the methodological challenges and accomplishments associated with project entitled Visualizing Breast Cancer.
Chapter 13 in the book Doing Cross-Cultural Research: Ethical and Methodological Perspectives edited by Pranee Liamputtong.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 324-351
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Author believes televison shows dehumanize Native Americans and takes a critical look at how audiences' percieve representations, what frame of reference the audience uses to evaluate what they view, and argues that there is a need to view representations without accepting the status quo provided in encoded form.
American Literature, vol. 80, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 677-705
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Discusses how Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk contextualizes the Battle of Bad Axe within previous conflicts between the U.S. government and Indigenous peoples of the Great Lake region over conceptions of landholding, diplomacy and trade.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, 2008, pp. 311-317
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Author shares a mnemoic pictograph, symbolic of a dream, with the audience at an American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting held in Chicago in May 2007.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. ix-xxxii
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Author discusses the way that the ethnographic approach to captivity narratives such as Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, etc., in the Captivity of John Gyles and A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson promotes several assumptions about Indigenous culture and portrays them as foreign.