Studies in the Humanities articles from December 2006

Studies in the Humanities archives from December 2006

Indian Curriculum.(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... (Indian Curriculum can be used to substitute for courses in mathematics, ancient history, mythology, and religious catechism.) Addition: Long time ago, before human beings were here on earth Grandmother Woodchuck instructed her...

Introduction.(portrayals of American Indians in the movies 'The New World' and 'Apocalypto')
December 1, 2006... When I was asked to guest edit a special edition of Studies in the Humanities centered on American Indian Studies, I knew immediately I wanted to focus specifically on the always problematic issue of representation of Indigenous peoples,...

Cultural mediation and the possibility of a native counter-cinema.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... I was recently planning a syllabus for a 100-level course on Native Literature at The Pennsylvania State University and, as my planning progressed, I ran into the age-old problem of what to leave in and what to leave out. Particularly difficult...

Ian Frazier's on the Rez: a source of indigenous truth or colonial consumerism?(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Speech, in traditional thought, has great potential for both healing healing and destruction. Speech can be medicine or witchery. Craig S. Womack (Red on Red 78) The Soul Never Thinks without a Mental Image. Aristotle (qtd. in Barry, 69)...

The storm that loved a bike.(Short story)
December 1, 2006... My grandmother, Molly McGivern, had a small walnut bed and side-table with one drawer in a back-room off the kitchen. I slept there as a child. It seems now I remember her baking biscuits in the mornings; the smell waking me. I had a...

Water Drum.(THREE POEMS)(Poem)
December 1, 2006... WATER DRUM To my knowledge he never beat the drum, nor sang in the Longhouse but he told stories over bowls of popcorn and sang in my mother's kitchen... "If I had the wings of a turtle...

"His name was Maurice".(THREE POEMS)(Poem)
December 1, 2006... "His name was Maurice" His name was Maurice pronounced Morris as though he were Sephardic, and he wore it- the bloodied bandage- as a warrior's shield as there were many battles behind the church,...

Grandma.(THREE POEMS)(Poem)
December 1, 2006... Grandma I do not know the stories her hands told a January night before the pot belly stove, the hound wiggling its sleepy nose as close to the fire as its hind-end dare; nor song she sung when winter ...

Lest we forget ... remembering through the song of the resilient spirit.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Everything, everybody holds within their hearts a song: songs of life, songs of timeless things and timeless places, songs of laughter, and finally, songs of death. Even when facing death and hardship, these are the songs of the resilient...

The curse.(Short story)
December 1, 2006... This is just an anecdote told around the reservation by my blood cousin Simon Red Hills. He swears to it. Seems that Simon is a fine hunter and guide to the woods. Fact is, he is known to be an able guide. Has a little local fame. Strange...

Self-representation, resistance, and postmodern native Americans: twentieth century native authors literature seminar 400.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... I have had the opportunity to teach LIT 400 senior seminars on Native American literature with some regularity at West Chester University, which is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Education, for the past eight years. LIT 400 seminars...

The "old ways" as new methods" decolonizing and native values in academia.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Academia's increasing number of ethnic studies programs and students of diverse backgrounds necessitates a shift from purely theoretical discussions of race, ethnicity, identity, and authenticity to new pedagogical considerations. Those of us...

Dwelling on place: a semester-long assignment for an American Indian literature course.
December 1, 2006... "Why all this landscape description?," my students ask in reading the novels in my NA Lit course. "Let's get on with it--the plot, conflict, the important stuff." But landscape is a person, a character in Native American lit, not the...

After white raven.
December 1, 2006... "White raven soared above golden spruce for too short a time" Vancouver Province Headline "A long, long time ago, Raven was white." That was simply an old story warning children about being compelled by desire. "Driven by his appetite,...

"Unconscionable violence": the federal role in American Indian education, 1890-1915.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... "It is in full accord with the desire of the nation to do away with the Indian problem by assimilating the Indians in the body politic of the United States." W.N. Haihnann, Superintendent of Indian Schools, 1894 (OIA,SIS, 4) ...

Diane Glancy, The Dance Partner.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Diane Glancy, The Dance Partner (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2000), xii + 115 pp. After reading Diane Glancy's book, I predict that the editors of several standard reference books on American fiction, the Ghost...

Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Joanne Barker. U of Nebraska Press, 2005. ISBN 0803262515 234 pages. $29.95 This collection, whose scholarship comes from a wide...