Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 5-41
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Discusses the conflict between anthropologists & archaeologists and Indigenous peoples on the rule for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains in the possession or control of museums or Federal agencies.
Website contains links, some with access to the full text of presentations, from a conference which explores intellectual thought and cultural development of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Many of the presenters were Canadian.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 147, The Activist Classroom: Performance and Pedagogy, Summer, 2011, pp. 49-54
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Discusses using Marie Clements' play to teach a course on political theatre and social justice to stop conventional, linear forms of historical memory.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
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Book reviews of:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie.
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 183-246
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Book reviews of:
An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M. Turner ; edited by Raymond L. Hudson.
The Arapaho Language by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr.
Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and Plains Cree, 1868–1885 by Jill St. Germain.
Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows.
Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson edited by David H. Dye.
Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 75-103
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Describes the concept of rhetorical sovereignty, and looks at the workings and complications of enacting rhetorical sovereignty using the three inaugural exhibits of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).
South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 110, no. 2, Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, 2011, pp. 465-486
Description
Discusses expressions of sovereignty through the artwork of four contemporary Iroquois artists; G. Peter Jemison, Alan Michelson, Samuel Thomas, and Marie Watt.