Natives and Academics Researching and Writing about American Indians

Name: Natives and Academics Researching and Writing about American Indians
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ISBN: 9780803282438

ISBN-10: 0803282435

ISBN-13: 9780803282438

Edition: 1998

Authors: Devon A. Mihesuah, Devon Mishesuah

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Ten leading Native scholars examine the state of scholarly research and writing on Native Americans. Their distinctive perspectives and telling arguments lend clarity to the heated debate about the purpose and direction of Native American scholarship. All too frequently, Native Americans have little control over how they and their ancestors are researched and depicted in scholarly writings. The relationship between Native peoples and the academic community has become especially rocky in recent years. Both groups are grappling with troubling questions about research ethics, methodology, and theory in the field and in the classroom. In this timely and illuminating anthology, ten leading…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 213
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



American Indian History or Non-Indian Perceptions of American Indian History?



Grandmother to Granddaughter: Generations of Oral History in a Dakota Family



Commonalty of Difference: American Indian Women and History



Special Problems in Teaching Leslle Marmon Silko's Ceremony



Comfortable Fictions and the Struggle for Turf: An Essay Review of The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies



Ethics and Responsibilities in Writing American Indian History



Licensed Trafficking and Ethnogenetic Engineering



American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story



Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America



On Revision and Revisionism: American Indian Representations in New Mexico



American Indian Studies is for Everyone



Why Indian People Should Be the Ones to Write about Indian Education



The Contributors


Index