The Mississippi Quarterly articles from December 22 2006

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from December 22 2006

South to a Red Place: Contemporary American Indian Writing and the Problem of Native/southern Studies
December 22, 2006... THIS WATERSHED SPECIAL ISSUE OF MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY GOES TO PRESS about forty years after what Jace Weaver (Cherokee) calls "the signal event in Native literature" (121): the 1968 publication of the novel House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday...

"Weaving an Epic Story": Ella Cara Deloria's Pageant for the Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, 1940-1941
December 22, 2006... I think pageantry is great. You can show so much that you would not dare to talk about. --Ella Deloria, letter to Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson, 16 Dec. 1927 (1) ELLA DELORIA (1889-1971) WAS AN OUTSTANDING YANKTON SIOUX SCHOLAR and cultural...

The Legend of Henry Berry Lowry: Strike at the Wind and the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina
December 22, 2006... ON THE MUGGY EVENING OF JULY 1, 1976, MORE THAN 850 PEOPLE FILED into Lakeside Amphitheater in Robeson County, North Carolina, to see the world premier of Strike at the Wind, a historical drama based on the life of the nineteenth-century Indian...

A Conversation with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
December 22, 2006... ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE, OF EASTERN TSA LA GI (CHEROKEE), HURON, Creek, French-Canadian, Portuguese, English, Scot, and Irish descent, grew up in Texas, North Carolina, and Canada, left home at thirteen and married at fifteen. By her...

Indian Givers: Reterritorializing the South in Contemporary Native American Literature
December 22, 2006... I know that we invent what we need to be true, imagining and re-writing until there is some kind of a text that gives us back a self. --Louis Owens, "Finding Gene" THE PHRASE "INDIAN GIVER" HAS LONG BEEN A PART OF OUR AMERICAN English...

The Strange Case of Sequoyah Redivivus: Achievement, Personage, and Perplexity
December 22, 2006... IT TAKES ONLY ONE BOOK TO MAKE A LEGEND. GEORGE WASHINGTON NEVER would have chopped down that cherry tree without Mason Locke Weems's "biographies," A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits, of General George Washington (1800) and...

Scary Stories: An Interview with Traditional Keetoowah/Cherokee Storyteller, Novelist, and Filmmaker Mr. Sequoyah Guess
December 22, 2006... AS A SCHOLAR OF AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE AND AS A CITIZEN OF THE Cherokee Nation, it is an honor to introduce readers of the Mississippi Quarterly to the writer, filmmaker, storyteller, and all-around artist Mr. Sequoyah Guess. Sequoyah Guess...

Before the South Became the South: Pre-Colonial and Colonial Geographies of Contact in Robert J. Conley's Cherokee Historical Novels
December 22, 2006... ROBERT J. CONLEY'S CHEROKEE HISTORICAL NOVELS INTERROGATE THE VERY notion of the South from the vantage point of the American Indian peoples living and traveling in that region prior to and since the European colonization of the Americas....

"The Twenty-First-Century Southern Rift and Shout": A Community of Black Poets
December 22, 2006... The Ringing Ear." Black Poets Lean South, edited by Nikky Finney. A Cave Canem Anthology. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2007. xxiv, 405 pp. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. NATASHA TRETHEWEY DESCRIBES A SOUTHERN POET'S NIGHTMARE IN "Pastoral," in her...

Undermining Him with Guesses
December 22, 2006... Ralph Ellison: A Biography, by Arnold Rampersad. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 657 pp. $35.00. LAWRENCE JACKSON'S RALPH ELLISON: EMERGENCE OF GENIUS (2002) appeared a full five years ago, but for whatever reason (contractual deadlines or...

Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World
December 22, 2006... Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, by Robbie Ethridge. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiii, 369 pp. $59.95 cloth. $22.50 paper. Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales by Earnest Gouge, edited and...

The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina
December 22, 2006... The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina, by Milton Ready. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. xv, 404 pp. $39.95 cloth. THE HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND ITS PEOPLE, JUST LIKE ITS GEOGRAPHY, defies easy categorization....

This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain
December 22, 2006... This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain, by Mikko Saikku. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. 373 pp., figures, tables, index. $54.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY HAS HAD A HARD...