By Adam Fortunate Eagle University of Oklahoma Press (2010) Review by Dr. Bradley Shreve Adam Fortunate Eagle (Ojibwe) has made something of a habit of upsetting people. His new memoir, Pipestone, will undoubtedly bother lots of folks who believe unwaveringly that boarding schools were all bad. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone in southwestern Minnesota from 1935 (more)
By Simon Pokagon Michigan State University Press (2011) Review by Ryan Winn One of only nine fiction books attributed to American Indian authors before 1969, Ogimawke Mitigwaki was originally written in Pokagon’s Native language, Potawatomi, and then transcribed to English for its 1899 publication. Now more than a century later, this multigenre work is back (more)
Edited by Denise K. Cummings Michigan State University Press (2011) Review by Ryan Winn The past decade witnessed the publication of numerous brilliant and thought-provoking texts concerning contemporary American Indian film and art. But none are as ambitious in scope and depth as Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art. The first part (more)
Edited by Margaret C. Nelson and Colleen Strawhacker University Press of Colorado (2011) Review by Michael W. Simpson Within Movement, Connectivity, and Landscape Change in the Ancient Southwest, the editors have collected 27 different chapters that represent papers presented at the 20th Anniversary Southwest Symposium. The introductory chapter shows how issues have been transformed over (more)
By Nathaniel Philbrick Viking Press (2010) Review by Ryan Winn There are many reasons to read Nathaniel Philbrick’s book, The Last Stand. Biography lovers will enjoy the book for the author’s compelling narrative voice, thoroughly documented research, and ability to frame both Custer and Sitting Bull within their respective social and political contexts. The average (more)
At the College of Menominee Nation, instructors, students, and elders are using technology to restore language. 
Partnering with museums and Indiana University, AIHEC has helped create e-Humanity, an online cultural portal.
For 11 years, a project at Sinte Gleska University has been recording, transcribing, and translating the Lakota language.
At Navajo Technical College, students are using technology to ensure the Diné’s cultural survival.
Growing up on the Fort Peck Reservation in the 1960s, Jim Shanley knew he wanted to go to college, but career options were limited. He majored in education only because his sister was a teacher, and “teaching was just about the only ‘white collar’ profession available to Indians living on the rural Montana reservation,” he says.
