Journal of the Southwest articles from March 2005

Journal of the Southwest archives from March 2005

Foreword.
March 22, 2005... It was inevitable. An oral history endeavor has become the stuff of reflective history. Some four decades aster the Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program was begun at the University of Arizona, former partic-ipants and others...

Forty years on.
March 22, 2005... In the 1960s, the social climate of the United States shifted toward an unprecedented awareness of minority populations. It was against this backdrop that the Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program was initiated for the purpose of...

The Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program: gathering the "raw material of history".
March 22, 2005... The Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program was initiated in late 1966 in several state universities: the University of Arizona, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of New...

Oral histories with the Acjachemem of San Juan Capistrano.
March 22, 2005... During the summers of 1970 and 1971 we (Frank and Susan) were both graduate students in anthropology at the University of Arizona when funding was made available for graduate students to carry out fieldwork. We successfully applied for a grant...

Continuing Maricopa identities: Gila River Reservation, Arizona.
March 22, 2005... A grant from the Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program presented me with the opportunity to meet a challenge. The question of whether or not subordinate tribal ethnic identities are maintained in spite of inclusion in a federal...

White Mountain Apache reflections.
March 22, 2005... Two time-honored techniques used by anthropologists to gain information about a people are participant observation and ethnographic interview. To a great extent, the many months I spent crisscrossing the Fort Apache Indian Reservation,...

Architectural design: drawing on nonverbal traditions as oral history.
March 22, 2005... Early in my graduate career in anthropology at the University of Arizona, I enrolled in a course, "The History of North American Indians," taught by Dr. Bernard "Bunny" Fontana. The course was an eye-opener, but above all, it impressed me with...

Mohave remembered.(Native American languages preservation)
March 22, 2005... "Hayko ya amoomk," he said, and I tensed. Without looking up, I asked, "Robert, I know hayko means 'white person,' but what is ya amoomk?" He quietly replied, "It means 'crazy'--you are a crazy white girl!" For this crazy white girl, the...

Chemehuevi phonology.
March 22, 2005... REFLECTIONS ON THE SUMMER OF 1969 This paper is based on the fieldwork I did on the Chemehuevi language during the summer of 1969 on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation near Parker, Arizona. To the best of my knowledge, prior to...

"I was the one to make the peace": Roberto Thomson and the Seri Indians.
March 22, 2005... Back in the late 1960s, Susan Penfield and I were friends in graduate school at the University of Arizona. As often happens with friendships, we lost track of each other for about twenty years after she moved back to California to begin a...

The Doris Duke program in scope and sequence.
March 22, 2005... The purpose of this paper is to report on oral history collections throughout the country resulting from the distribution of Doris Duke grants. The first institutions to receive these grants were the University of Arizona; the University of...