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)
By Michael V. Wilcox University of California Press (2009) Review by Eleanor Kuhl It is refreshing to see a new approach. Author Michael Wilcox upends many assumptions about Native peoples of North America. He looks in particular at the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in the Americas. The depth of research and (more)
Edited by Robert Dale Parker University of Pennsylvania Press (2011) Review by Ryan Winn Through extensive archival research in small-circulation newspapers and magazines, manuscripts, pamphlets, rare books, and scrapbooks, Robert Dale Parker has uncovered and published poems by 82 poets whose collective work is largely unknown. These poems, which he gathered together in Changing Is (more)
By Walter R. Echo-Hawk Fulcrum Press (2010) Review by Michael W. Simpson One year after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the racist laws against African Americans in Brown v. Board of Education, the very same court stated in Tee-Hit-Ton v. United States (1955) that “Every American schoolboy knows that the savage tribes of this continent (more)
Edited by Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby UCLA American Indian Studies Center (2010) Review by Ryan Winn Since the University of California, Los Angeles’s Project HOOP (Honoring Our Origins and People) started publishing Native theater texts in 1999, it has become impossible to have a conversation about American Indian theater without referencing its contributions (more)
By Bradley Shreve University of Oklahoma Press (2011) Review by Ryan Winn Conversations about American Indian activism often focus on three events: the 1969 reclaiming of Alcatraz Island by Indians of All Tribes, the American Indian Movement’s (AIM) occupation of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in 1972, and AIM’s siege of Wounded Knee (more)
