Discussion by Elders who express regrets at loss of traditional customs and values and desire a return of schools on reserves ; a need to preserve Indian ceremonies and Indian medicines ; concerns about problems with alcohol recur throughout.
Elders discuss contemporary problems. Recurring themes are: problems with alcohol; education by whites from an early age; need to return to traditional teaching by elders in combination with white education.
Elders discuss concerns regarding: loss of Indian culture and traditions; failure to educate young Indians in traditionalways; young well-educated chiefs who will not take advice from elders.
Discussion of the educational system: relative merits of day schools, residential schools, integrated schools, etc.; need for inclusion of Indian culture into the curriculum at all levels ; the role of the elder as teacher.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 47-64
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Discusses the novel's theme of a political revolution which will ultimately result in the disintegration of European power over Aboriginal peoples.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 63-82
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Article explores the perspective of and possible motivations for the internalized racism present in Emmy Valandry’s interviews about the Lakota people and the Hunka ceremony.
Discussion on problems of the younger generation, including alcoholism. Also discussed ways in which parents and elders can help by instructing children and young people and by maintaining the Indian religion.
Mrs. Adams is a retired white schoolteacher and was 69 years old at the time of the interview. She tells of her induction as an honorary chief of the Blackfoot reserve and shares her experiences among the Blackfoot.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 65-83
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Explores how the writer replaces the European linear thinking about time and replaces it with the indigenous viewpoint of circularity.
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Interviews Navajos who were involved in a voluntary foster-care program sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah which placed Native American Mormon children into white Mormon homes for the school year.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative
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Anthony K. Webster
Kimberli Lee
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Sam Kenoi’s “Coyote and the Whitemen”: Contact in and out of a Chiricahua Narrative by Anthony K. Webster examines specific narration by placing it within the context of received standards for a Coyote narrative.
Language in Mari Sandoz’s Crazy Horse: Strange Man of the Oglalas by Kimberli Lee discusses the Indian perspectives used in Mari Sandoz’s work.
Ephanie’s Vision Quest: Blending Native American and Feminist Elements
Life Stories by a Cherokee Dreamer: John Oskison’s Historical Writings
Native American Symposium ; 2nd, 1997
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Author/Creator
Barbara Jean Cook
Melissa Hearn
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Ephanie’s Vision Quest: Blending Native American and Feminist Elements by Barbara Jean Cook examines the differences between Indian feminism and "mainstream theoretical feminism" for Indian women.
Life Stories by a Cherokee Dreamer: John Oskison’s Historical Writings by Melissa Hearn discusses the cultural complexity of the Cherokee Nation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 386-392
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Author describes the process of gaining and using ritual knowledge in a Hopi context; examines some of the misunderstandings created by anthropologists about those who hold ritual knowledge.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 415-431
Description
Study defines the cultural values and symbols of the Snoqualmie people and then uses the maintenance of these cultural pieces to evaluate the resistance of the Snoqualmie to assimilation.
Author uses various anthropological and historical sources to throw some light on the way in which the Indians of the Treaty 6 and 7 regions might have interpreted the treaty promises.
This paper, based on his many field interviews, represents Mr. Rain's views on why the Indians in the Treaty 6 area wereanxious to sign treaty, the problems of language, and therefore of their understanding of the terms.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 433-456
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Article explores the phenomena of cultural resilience and resistance to assimilation on the Grand Ronde reservation, additionally considers those settler practices that were adopted and the cultural hybridity that came of that space.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 79-93
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Discussion of the novel's theme tracing the environmental and spiritual devastation caused by the concepts of manifest destiny and nation building as used by EuroAmericans.
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