Sunday, December 30, 2012

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“ The growing and dying of the moon reminds us of our ignorance which comes and goes—but when the moon is full it is as if the Great Spirit were upon the whole world. ”
 


—Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

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“ The growing and dying of the moon reminds us of our ignorance which comes and goes—but when the moon is full it is as if the Great Spirit were upon the whole world. ”
 


—Black Elk, Oglala Sioux



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jack d. forbes Novel: red blood


Jack d. forbes, red blood

 jack d. forbes, university of california, davis, professor of native american studies.  I'm starting with one of his scholarly books, "The American Discovery of Europe" and also his only novel, "Red Blood."  I am really impressed by the novel.  It is written in the peripatetic motif popularized in the English tradition by Smolett, but found also in that sperm-seed of western literature, Don Quixote. So, nothing much happens, there is no suspensful 'plot,' but the protagonist, Jesse, travels around and meets different people of various native american backgrounds, reflects on what he sees, and gains insight into what it means to be native american, or part-native american, at this particular juncture in time. 

It seems to me he covers every possible permutation.

It's a great loss that Jack Forbes has recently died, in February 2011, because he was clearly a man of great insight with a basically gentle attitude toward differences, a lot of love, compassion and intelligence.  A jewel.  He was of Powhatan-Renape and Lenape background, which may mean he looked more brown or more white than the popular conception of what 'Native American' looks like.  He writes a LOT about all the various shades of color and subtleties of feature found in our population.  Young white readers, in particular, (from what I've seen in the comments on blogs that deal with these issues) often find this kind of writing 'racist,' but really, it's just revealing the racism that is already there in our society, but goes unacknowledged.  There's been a fairly large acknowledgement of the racism heir to the plantation-slavery of Africans prior to the Civil War, but there is less awareness of the widespread slavery prior to the rise of the South's cotton industry.  Slavery or indentured servitude were very common throughout the thirteen colonies and early states and involved white, black and red persons, who often united in bands of community and through marriage.  Their descendents, along with the descendants of many later immigrants, form the 'unentitled' masses of America. 

For people who fall into that latter category, 'Red Blood' is a helpful book.  For people like myself, with perhaps only a smidgen of native blood but a fairly wide streak of influence from the native forbears, it is comforting to see just where these influences come from, and that we have a sort of 'right' to our beliefs and our lifestyle.  We are not simply somehow defective white people or 'anti-social' or whatever label might have been applied to us in our difference.  We are not simply 'black' Americans, either, but that is someone else's story to tell, not mine.

For myself, to look at me, I understand why no one would credit that I am part-native american, or part African, even though my dna tests show that, and my family (barely) acknowledged it, regarding it as something too precious to share abroad, only eliciting criticism, ridicule or negativity.  Rather, our truth was like a precious pearl kept secret in a special container deep inside our home.  Anyway, I'm not going to try to convince anybody - about myself, I mean.  It will be a fairly private thing for me, and an online post doesn't really change that.

I look forward to reading more Jack Forbes and I encourage you to read him too.


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Native American Experience



Learn about the life, culture and history of the Native American people.


Nerburn, Kent
The Wolf at Twilight : an Indian Elder's Journey Through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows
The author finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. This touching, funny, and haunting journey goes deep into mysteries of reservation boarding-schools, sweat lodges, and the isolated homesteads of the Dakota hills.
2009
Adult Nonfiction Book

Northrup, Jim
Anishinaabe Syndicated : a View from the Rez
Northrup, an Anishinaabe writer, takes a humorous look at life on and off the Fond do Lac Reservation in northern Minnesota, including traditional ricing and fishing, pow wows and casinos, family relationships, politics, pets, boarding schools, and travel. 2012 Minnesota Book Award nominee.
2011
Adult Nonfiction Book

Peacock, Thomas D.
Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa = We Look in All Directions
Chronicles the history and culture of the Ojibwe people. Peacock, an Ojibwe himself, discusses the written language of the Ojibwe, their 500-mile migration to Northern Michigan from the St. Lawrence River valley, their struggles with the U.S. Government over sovereignty and land issues, and other historical issues.
2002
Adult Nonfiction Book

Peltier, Leonard
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
Incarcerated for the last twenty-four years, the Native American activist shares his life story, as well as philosophical views on prison and how it has affected him.
1999
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)

Razor, Peter
While the Locust Slept
This memoir, written when the author was 73 years old, won a Minnesota Book Award. Razor describes his experiences as an orphan growing up at the State Public School in Owatonna and the severe abuse he suffered. As an adult, he gained strength from researching his Native American heritage.
2001
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)

Swift, Tom
Chief Bender's Burden : the Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
The story of Bender's improbable journey--from his early years on the White Earth Reservation, to his development at the Carlisle Indian School, to his big break and eventual rise to the pinnacle of baseball.
2008
Adult Nonfiction Book

Treuer, Anton
The Assassination of Hole in the Day
Explores the murder of the controversial Ojibwe chief who led his people through the first difficult years of dispossession by white invaders—and created a new kind of leadership for the Ojibwe. A Minnesota Book Award nominee.
2011
Adult Nonfiction Book

Treuer, Anton.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
What have you always wanted to know about Indians? In matter of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and historical, Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist Anton Treuer gives a frank, funny, and sometimes personal tour of Native people and their culture.
2012
Adult Nonfiction Book

Treuer, David.
Rez Life : an Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Celebrated novelist David Treuer has brings a novelist’s storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present.
2012
Adult Nonfiction Book

Vizenor, Gerald Robert
The Everlasting Sky: Voices of the Anishinabe People
This classic collection of essays portrays the peoples and political times on northern reservations in the 1970s. Many of the writings are drawn from the author’s experiences growing up on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
2000
Adult Nonfiction Book

Warren, William W.
History of the Ojibway People
For the first time since its initial publication in 1885, this classic text is now available with new annotations. Warren collected firsthand descriptions and stories from relatives, tribal leaders, and acquaintances and transcribed this oral history of the Ojibwe.
2009
Adult Nonfiction Book

Weatherford, J. McIver
Indian Givers : How Native Americans Transformed the World
Chronicles 500 years of contributions from the Indians of the Americas by anthropologist Jack Weatherford, including our federal government, democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology.
2010
Adult Nonfiction Book

White, Bruce M.
We are at Home : Pictures of the Ojibwe People
A fascinating history of the Ojibwe people at home in the Minnesota landscape through 1950--as told through more than 200 vivid photographs.
2007
Adult Nonfiction Book

Wilson, Diane, 1954-
Beloved Child : a Dakota Way of Life
Through interviews with cultural activists and Dakota elders, Dianne Wilson, tells stories of restoration and reconciliation, and the efforts of modern Native American activists to empower their people in the wake of genocide and the forced enculturation of the boarding school system.
2011
Adult Nonfiction Book










Hennepin County Library - Find a Good Book - Native American Experience


Hennepin County Library - Find a Good Book - Native American Experience



Native American Experience

Learn about the life, culture and history of the Native American people.










Anderson, Gary Clayton

Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862

This volume documents the Minnesota Dakota War of 1862 as witnessed by Dakota Indians. Each powerful personal account is preceded by a biographical sketch; some photographs and sketches included.

1988

Adult Nonfiction Book




Black Elk

Black Elk Speaks : Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Lakota Holy Man Black Elk tells -- through poet John Niehardt -- the story of his own life and his people during the late 19th century. First published in 1932, this classic book documents Lakota life and passes along Black Elk's visions.

1988

Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)




Brave Bird, Mary

Lakota Woman

The deeply moving story of a woman's triumphant struggle to survive on the South Dakota Rosebud Reservation, to joining the revolution for Native American rights during the 1960s and 1970s.

1994

Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)




Brown, Dee Alexander

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

This classic "Indian history of the American West" documents the atrocities committed against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century. This book contains many primary sources, including photographs, testimonies and transcripts from Native American leaders.

1971

Adult Nonfiction Book




Christgau, John.

Birch Coulie : the Epic Battle of the Dakota War

The account of the war between white settlers and the Dakota Indians in Minnesota examines two communities torn by internal dissent and external threat. The book also delves into the aftermath, during which thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged without legal representation or the appearance of defense witnesses, the largest mass execution in American history. With its unusually nuanced perspective, Birch Coulie brings clarity and insight to a critical moment in the troubled history of the American West.

2012

Adult Nonfiction Book




Cohen, Ken

Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing

Written by a master of alternative healing practices, "Honoring the Medicine" gathers together an abundance of information about every aspect of Native American medicine and healing philosophy.

2003

Adult Nonfiction Book




Deloria, Vine

Singing for a Spirit : a Portrait of the Dakota Sioux

Follows the story of the Deloria family, whose existence was engulfed and forever changed by the westward expansion of the United States.

1999

Adult Nonfiction Book




Erdrich, Heid. E. and Laura Tohe, eds.

Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community

In this energetic anthology of poetry, essays and fiction, Native American women examine their lives and their connection to community. Contributors include well-known and lesser-known contemporary Native American women writers from a variety of tribes.

2002

Adult Nonfiction Book




Erdrich, Louise

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

The critically acclaimed author describes her journey back to the islands of her ancestors in Ontario, offering a compelling portrait of Ojibwe language, culture, spirits, traditions, and art as she visits centuries-old rock paintings and recalls her own family and contemporary life.

2003

Adult Nonfiction Book




Graves, Kathy Davis

Indians in Minnesota

A historical and contemporary account of Ojibwe and Dakota Indians living in both reservation and urban settings is provided in this resource that examines the significant changes and continuing needs of Indians in the twenty-first century.

2006

Adult Nonfiction Book




Gwynne, S. C.

Empire of the Summer Moon : Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

A stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.

2010

Adult Nonfiction Book




Harjo, Joy

A Map to the Next World : Poetry and Tales

In Her Fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America's brutal history into a poetic whole.

2000

Adult Nonfiction Book




Hearth, Amy Hill

"Strong Medicine" Speaks : a Native American Elder Has her Say : an Oral History

Chronicles the life of Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould, a Lenni-Lenape, or Delaware, Indian, tracing her ancestry back to the 1520s and describing her experiences growing up and raising a family in New Jersey during the twentieth century.

2008

Adult Nonfiction Book




Heat Moon, William Least

Roads to Quoz : an American Mosey

Recounts the author's three-month 13,000-mile road trip on the back roads of small-town America, during which he uncovers a nation deep in character, story, and charm.

2008

Adult Nonfiction Book




Hogan, Linda

The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir

Hogan, a Chicksaw novelist and poet, chronicles her difficult upbringing, blending her personal story with a broader history of Native American experience. Although it describes many painful incidents, the narrative is beautiful and hopeful.

2001

Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)




Jones, Lisa

Broken : a Love Story : Horses Humans and Redemption On the Wind River Indian Reservation

A journalist describes how she overcame personal challenges through a relationship with a famous Arapahoe quadriplegic horse trainer from whom the author learned spiritually transforming life lessons and came to deeply love Wyoming's Native American culture.

2009

Adult Nonfiction Book




LaDuke, Winona

Recovering the Sacred : the Power of Naming and Claiming

Well-known Native activist scholar/two-time Green Party vice-presidential candidate examines how her White Earth tribe is reclaiming their spiritual heritage from cultural imperialism. Reviving the traditional diet and seeking out earth-friendly energy sources are key elements of this healing process.

2005

Adult Nonfiction Book




Lancaster, Daniel

John Beargrease : Legend of Minnesota's North Shore

This biographical account follows legendary Beargrease through the settlement and development of the North Shore on his difficult traverse from traditional Anishinabe life to the modern world.

2009

Adult Nonfiction Book




Mann, Charles C.

1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

A groundbreaking analysis of America prior to 1492 describes how the research of archaeologists and anthropologists has transformed myths about the Americas. Not only was the population greater than Europe, but the cultures were also far older and more advanced than previously known.

2005

Adult Nonfiction Book




McNab, Chris

Warriors of the World : the Native American Warrior 1500-1890 CE

Surveys the training, tools and strategies of Native American fighters from large and remote tribes, examining in lavishly illustrated detail their equipment, disparate combat techniques and influence on European and American technology.

2010

Adult Nonfiction Book





 





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AUTHORS





Ai, , 1947-2010

Choctaw-Chickasaw-Cheyenne-Comanche




Allen, Paula Gunn

Laguna-Sioux-Lebanese




Amiotte, Arthur

Oglala Lakota




Apess, William, b. 1798

Pequot




Baca, Jimmy Santiago

Apache-Chicano




Banks, Dennis

Leech Lake Ojibwe




Barreiro, Jose

Taino-Cuban




Begay, Shonto

Navajo




Birchfield, D. L.

Chickasaw-Choctaw




Blackhawk, Ned

Te-Moak Shoshone




Blaeser, Kimberly M.

White Earth Ojibwe




Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

Cherokee




Boyden, Linda

Cherokee




Brave Bird, Mary

Brule Lakota




Broker, Ignatia

Ojibwe




Bruchac, James

Abenaki




Bruchac, Joseph, 1942

Abenaki




Campbell, Maria, 1940-

Metis




Child, Brenda J.




Chrystos,

Menominee




Coke, Allison Hedge

Huron-Cherokee-Creek




Copway, George, 1818-1863?

Mississauga Ojibwa




Cornplanter, Jesse J.

Seneca




Deloria, Ella Cara

Yankton Dakota




Deloria, Vine

Yankton Dakota




Eastman, Charles Alexander

Dakota




Erdrich, Louise

Turtle Mountain Ojibwe




Forbes, Jack D.

Powhatan-Renape-Lenape




Gonzalez, Gaspar Pedro

poetry; Q'anjob'al Maya




Green, Rayna

Cherokee




Harjo, Joy

poetry; Muscogee Creek-Cherokee




Heat Moon, William Least

Osage-Irish




Henry, Jeannette

Cahuilla-Cherokee




Hogan, Linda

Chickasaw




Johnson, E. Pauline

Mohawk




Johnston, Basil

Anishinaabe




Kegg, Maude

Ojibwe




La Flesche , Francis

Omaha




LaDuke, Winona

White Earth Ojibwe




Mankiller, Wilma Pearl

Cherokee




Marshall, Joseph, 1945-

Lakota




Mathews, John Joseph

Osage




McMaster, Gerald

Siksika-Red Pheasant




McNickle, D'Arcy

Salish Kootenai




Menchu, Rigoberta

K'iche Maya




Mihesuah, Devon A.

Choctaw




Mistral, Gabriela

Mapuche, Chile




Momaday, N. Scott

poetry; Kiowa-Cherokee




Montejo, Victor

Jakaltek Maya




Moore, Marijo

Cherokee




Mourning Dove,

Colville-Okanagan




Northrup, Jim

Anishnaabe




Ortiz, Simon J.

Acoma Pueblo




Red Shirt, Delphine

Oglala Lakota




Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

Cherokee




Rose, Wendy

poetry; Hopi-Miwok




Silko, Leslie, 1948-

Laguna Pueblo




Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk

Brule Lakota




Standing Bear, Luther

Oglala Lakota




Strickland, Rennard

Osage-Cherokee




Sweet, Denise

poetry; Anishinaabe




Tapahonso, Luci

Dine




Taylor, Drew Hayden

Ojibwe




Tinker, George E.

Osage




Trask, Haunani-Kay

Native Hawaiian




Tremblay, Gail

Mi'kmaq-Onondaga




Trudell, John

Santee Sioux




Vizenor, Gerald Robert

White Earth Ojibwe




Warrior, Robert Allen

Osage




Welch, James, 1940-2003

Blackfeet-Gros Ventre




Whiteman, Roberta Hill

poetry; Oneida




Wilson, Angela Cavender

Wahpetunwan Dakota




Young Bear, Ray A.

poetry; Meskwaki




Zitkala-Sa,


•Yankton Dakota



















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Vegan

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Victoria's Secret apologizes for use of headdress - World - CBC News

 Model Karlie Kloss wears an Indian headdress during the 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in New York.



Victoria's Secret has apologized for putting a native-style headdress on a model for its annual fashion show, after the outfit was criticized as a display of ignorance toward tribal culture and history.
The company responded to the complaints over the weekend by saying it was sorry to have upset anyone and that it wouldn't include the outfit in the show's television broadcast next month, or in any marketing materials.
"We sincerely apologize as we absolutely had no intention to offend anyone," the company said.


Victoria's Secret apologizes for use of headdress - World - CBC News

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/13/victoria-secret-headdress-apology.html

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Charles Eastman - Native American physician,




Charles Eastman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)


Charles Eastman
Born February 19, 1858
Near Redwood Falls, Minnesota
Died January 8, 1939 (aged 80)
Detroit, Michigan
Education Dartmouth College, Boston University
Spouse Elaine Goodale Eastman


Charles Alexander Eastman (born Hakadah and later named Ohíye S’a; February 19, 1858 – January 8, 1939) was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer.

Eastman was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded thirty-two Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He also helped found the Boy Scouts of America. He is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the Native point of view.



Early Life and Education


Eastman was named Hakadah at his birth, meaning "pitiful last" in the Dakota. Eastman was so named because his mother died following his birth. He was the last of five children of Wakantakawin, a mixed-race woman also known as Mary Nancy Eastman.[1] Eastman's father, a Santee Sioux named Wak-anhdi Ota (Many Lightnings), lived on a Dakota (Santee Sioux) reservation near Redwood Falls, Minnesota.


Eastman's mother was the daughter of U.S. Army officer and illustrator Seth Eastman, and Wakháŋ Inážiŋ Wiŋ (Stands Sacred), who married in 1830.[1] Eastman was posted to Fort Snelling, near what is now Minneapolis, and married the fifteen-year-old daughter of Cloud Man, a Dakotah (Santee Sioux) chief. Seth Eastman was reassigned from Fort Snelling in 1832, soon after the birth of Winona (meaning First-born daughter). He declared his marriage ended when he left, as was typical of many European-American men. Winona was later called Wakantakawin.

In the Sioux tradition of naming to mark life passages, her last son Hakadah was later named Ohíye S’a (Dakota: "wins often") had three older brothers (John, David, and James) and an older sister Mary. During the Dakota War of 1862, Ohíye S’a was separated from his father Wak-anhdi Ota and siblings, and they were thought to have died. His maternal grandmother Stands Sacred (Wakháŋ Inážiŋ Wiŋ) and her family took the boy with them as they fled from the warfare into North Dakota and Manitoba, Canada.[2] Fifteen years later Ohíyesa was reunited with his father and oldest brother John in South Dakota. The father had converted to Christianity, after which he took the surname Eastman and called himself Jacob. John also converted and took the surname Eastman. The Eastman family established a homestead in Dakota Territory. When Ohiyesa accepted Christianity, he took the name Charles Alexander Eastman.

His father strongly supported his sons' getting an education in European-American style schools. Eastman and his older brother John attended mission and preparatory schools, and college. Eastman first attended Beloit College and Knox colleges; he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. He went on to medical school at Boston University, where he graduated in 1889 and became the first Native American to be certified as a European-style doctor.

His older brother became a minister. Rev. John (Maȟpiyawaku Kida) Eastman was a Presbyterian missionary at the Santee Sioux settlement of Flandreau, South Dakota.









Works

  • Memories of an Indian Boyhood, autobiography; McClure, Philips, 1902.
  • Indian Boyhood, New York; McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. Online at Webroots.
  • Red Hunters and Animal People, legends; Harper and Brothers, 1904.
  • The Madness of Bald Eagle, legend; 1905.
  • Old Indian Days, legends; McClure, 1907.
  • Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold (co-author with his wife Ellen Goodale Eastman), legends; Little, Brown, 1909.
  • Smoky Day's Wigwam Evenings (co-written with Ellen Goodale Eastman), 1910
  • The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation, Houghton, 1911.
  • Indian Child Life, nonfiction, Little, Brown, 1913.
  • Indian Scout Talks: A Guide for Scouts and Campfire Girls, nonfiction, Little, Brown, 1914. (retitled Indian Scout Craft and Lore, Dover Publications). A 1914 reviewer writes, "If one should follow this guide, one would soon begin to doubt he is a white man".[8]
  • The Indian Today: The Past and Future of the Red American, Doubleday-Page, 1915.
  • From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian, autobiography; Little, Brown, 1916.
  • Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, Little, Brown, 1918. Also Online at Webroots.

See also

External links





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Native American studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Nez Perce or Nez Percé (pronounced /nɛz pɝs/, or /ne pɛr'se/ as in French) are a tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the Pacific Northwest region of the United States at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Nez Perce's name for themselves is Ni-Mii-Puu (pronounced nee-mee-poo), which means simply "the People."



Nez Perce warrior on horse
                                                                     

Native American Studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America[1], or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. Increasingly, debate has focused on the differences rather than the similarities between other Ethnic studies disciplines such as African American studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino/a Studies.

In particular, the political sovereignty of many indigenous nations marks substantive differences in historical experience from that of other racial and ethnic groups in the United States and Canada.

Drawing from numerous disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, history, literature, political science, and gender studies, Native American Studies scholars consider a variety of perspectives and employ diverse analytical and methodological tools in their work.[1]

Two key concepts shape Native American studies, according to Sioux scholar Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, indigenousness (as defined in culture, geography, and philosophy) and sovereignty (as legally and historically defined).[2]


Practitioners advocate for decolonization of indigenous peoples, political autonomy, and the establishment of a discipline dedicated to alleviating contemporary problems facing indigenous peoples.[1]

 


Chief Quanah Parker

Quanah Parker (c. late 1840s - February 23, 1911) was a Native American leader, the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and "Anglo-Texan" Cynthia Ann Parker, and the last chief of the Quahadi Comanche Indians.




 Bibliography


Academic Journals
American Indian Quarterly
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Canadian Journal of Native Studies
Native Studies Review
European Review of Native American Studies
Wíčazo Ša Review



Notable Native American studies scholars

Taiaiake Alfred (Kanien’kehaka/Kahnawake Mohawk)
Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo-Sioux)
Greg Cajete (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Dean Chavers (Lumbee)
Allison Hedge Coke (Huron-Muscogee Creek-Cherokee)
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow Creek Sioux)
Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux)
Philip Deloria (Standing Rock Sioux)
Raymond DeMallie
Jack D. Forbes (Powhatan-Renape-Lenape)
Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation)
Trudie Lamb-Richmond (Schaghticoke)
Stacy Leeds (Cherokee Nation)
Devon A. Mihesuah (Choctaw)
Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo)
Luana Ross (Flathead Nation)
Greg Sarris (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria)
James Thomas Stevens (Mohawk)
Charlene Teters (Spokane Tribe)
Gerald Vizenor (White Earth Anishinaabe)
Robert A. Williams, Jr. (Lumbee)
Craig Womack (Muskogee Nation)
Alfred Young Man (Cree)



See also

Indigenous peoples of North America portal

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America/Selected_picture 


Indigenous peoples of the Americas portal

 Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas





Cultural studies
Navajo Community College Press
Native American sovereignty
Postcolonialism
Center for World Indigenous Studies


Publications
Journal of Indigenous Studies
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
American Indian Quarterly
Indigenous Law Centre
Journal of Aboriginal Health


Notes

^ a b c d e Sara C. Heitshu, Thomas H. Marshall: Native American Studies: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources (Social Sciences), Libraries Unlimited, U.S., 2 Rev Ed 2009, ISBN 1-56308-971-8
^ a b c Cook-Lynn 11
^ Cook-Lynn 9
^ Cook-Lynn 10

References

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. Who Stole Native American Studies?" Wíčazo Ša Review. Vol. 12, No. 1. Spring 1997. Pp. 9–28.
Brooks, Lisa, Michael Elliott, Arnold Krupat, Elvira Pulitano, Craig Womack. "Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion." Southern Spaces, 21 June 2011.
Clara Sue Kidwell; Alan R. Velie (1 October 2005). Native American studies. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-7829-5.

See also

Crosby, Heather, 2011. "Explaining Achievement: Factors affecting Native American College Student Success". Applied Research Projects, Texas State University-San Marcos. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/349.



External links 

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Guide to Native American Studies Programs in the United States and Canada
Native Studies Review





Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_studies

 
Source:  Native American studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Jack D. Forbes on Native American Authors

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This website provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. Currently the website primarily contains information on contemporary Native American authors, although some historical authors are represented. The website will continue to expand, adding additional authors, books and web resources.

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Jack D. Forbes , 1934-2011

Powhatan
Delaware

Jack Forbes was born in 1934 in Long Beach, California. He started writing in high school, writing articles for a school paper and later became sports editor. In 1979 he felt he needed a stimulation of a new environment, and went to England for year and then to Holland and Mexico. He said he is deeply interested in human rights and in the common problems experienced by all people. He studied at the University of Southern California earning his Bachelors in 1953, Masters in 1955 and PhD. in 1959.

He was a professor emeritus of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis and was the founder of Degoniwida-Quetzalcoatl University in Davis. He died February 23, 2011.

Awards and Honors

Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1997
Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year (Prose - Non-Fiction) award, 1999

Online resources by or about Jack D. Forbes:

A Brief Biography of Jack D. Forbes
Author: Martin F. Dunn
Type: authorbio
Description: An short bio of Forbes from the "Metis in the U.S.A." web site.
URL: http://www.othermetis.net/USmetis/ForbesBio.html

Canada: Switzerland of the North or a Double Colony by Jack Forbes
Author: Artic Circle
Type: etext
Description: Full text from the Arctic Circle website of a commentary by Jack Forbes originally published in his column, Native Intelligence.
URL: http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/CulturalViability/Cree/forbes.html

Jack Forbes: We Can Have New Visions
Author: Lois Crozier-Hogle
Type: authorbio
Description: This page from the Winter 1999 issue of Talking Leaves includes several excerpts from the book Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices, including an interview with Jack Forbes.
URL: http://www.talkingleaves.org/w99native.htm

Jack Forbes' Webpage
Author: Jack Forbes
Type: authorbio
Description: Forbes' home page on the University of California, Davis Native American Studies Department web site. Includes a brief biographical statement, photos, an extensive publications list, and a link to his personal homepage.
URL: http://nas.ucdavis.edu/nasforbes.htm

Windspeaker Guest Columns (1999)
Author: Taiaiake Alfred, Jack Forbes, et al.
Type: etext
Description: Text of several guest columns written by Alfred from 9/99 - 12/99, and a column by Forbes from 6/99.
URL: http://www.ammsa.com/windspeaker/windguest99.html

Books by Jack D. Forbes:

Forbes, Jack D.. Africans and Native Americans : the language of race and the evolution of Red-Black peoples
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0252020146 (hc) / 025206321x (pbk)

Forbes, Jack D.. Afro-Americans in the Far West : a handbook for educators
Berkeley, CA : Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, 1968.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. American words : an introduction to those native words used in English in the United States and Canada
Davis, CA : University of California, Davis, 1979.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: All Ages

Forbes, Jack D.. Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: All Ages
ISBN: 0806126868

Forbes, Jack D.. Atlas of native history
Davis, CA : D-Q University Press, 1981 .
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Aztecas del norte ; the Chicanos of Aztlan
Greenwich, CT : Fawcett Publications, 1973.
Genre: Fiction
Audience: All Ages

Forbes, Jack D.. Columbus and other cannibals
Autonomedia, 1992.
ISBN: 0-936-756-70-5

Forbes, Jack D.. The constitutional and legal background for a non-racial human skeletal remains policy for the University of California and other California agencies
California : J.D. Forbes, 1990.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. The education of the culturally different : a multi-cultural approach
Berkeley, CA : Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, 1969.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. The establishment of D-Q University : an example of successful Indian-Chicano community development
Davis, Calif. : D-Q University, 1972.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. The Indian in America's past
Englewood Cliffs, N.Y. : Prentice Hall, 1964.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Mexican-Americans : a handbook for educators
Berkeley, CA : Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, 1967.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. A model of "grass-roots" community development : the D-Q University native american language education project
Davis, CA : University of California, Davis, 1976.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Native American languages : preservation and self-development
Davis, CA : University of California, Davis, 1979.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Native Americans and Nixon : presidential politics and minority self-determination, 1969-1972
Los Angeles : American Indian Studies Center, UCLA, 1981.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0935626069 (pbk)

Forbes, Jack D.. Native Americans of California and Nevada
Happy Camp, Calif. : Naturegraph Publishers, 1982.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0879611189

Forbes, Jack D.. Nevada Indians speak
Reno : University of Nevada press, 1967.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Only approved Indians
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
Genre: Short Stories
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 080612699x

Forbes, Jack D.. The Papago-Apache Treaty of 1853 : property rights and religious liberties of the 'O'odham, Maricopa, and other native peoples
Davis, CA : University of California, Davis, 1979.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. The potential role of libraries and information services in supporting Native American cultures and the quality of life of Native people : a paper
Washington, D.C. : Office of Library and Information Services, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1978.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Racism, scholarship, and cultural pluralism in higher education
Davis, CA : University of California, Davis, 1977.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Red blood
Penticton, B.C. : Theytus Books, 1997.
ISBN: 0919441653

Forbes, Jack D.. Religious freedom and the protection of Native American places of worship and cemeteries
Davis, CA : University of California, Davis, 1977.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Tribes and masses : explorations in red, white, and black
Davis, Calif. : D-Q University Press, 1978.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult

Forbes, Jack D.. Wapanakamikok language relationships : an introductory study of mutual intelligibility among the Powhatan, Lanape, Natick, Nanticoke, and Otchipwe languages
Davis, Calif. : University of California, Davis, 1972.
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Adult



Jack D. Forbes on Native American Authors

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