{"title":"Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places by Gerald F. Reid (review)","authors":"Paul R McKenzie-Jones","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"76 1","pages":"140 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80186284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O’odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin by Jennifer Bess (review)","authors":"D. Dejong","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"62 1","pages":"97 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74802926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods by Michelene E. Pensatubbee and Michael J. Zogry (review)","authors":"Keitlyn Alcántara","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"8 1","pages":"127 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90060088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements by Juliana Hu Pegues","authors":"Colton Brandau","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78977089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Did You See Us? Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Residential School by Andrew Woolford","authors":"Louellyn White","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"330 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76570790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Memory, place, and Indigenous resistance are explored in two poems whose central metaphor is the Mississippi River and the landscape near its delta and its source, respectively: “New Orleans” (1983) by the former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Muscogee) and “Pre-Occupied” (2013) by the Minneapolis-based Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) in its textual and collaborative video poem versions. I analyze these poems’ retheorizing of place by drawing on gender and Indigenous studies scholar Mishuana Goeman’s concept of “remapping,” arguing that the poems create an Indigenous Mississippi that replaces representations of the river as an icon of the U.S. empire and westward expansion. Both poets transcend regional and temporal boundaries, following the flow of the river to provide a broader definition of Indigenous homelands. Read together, “New Orleans” and “Pre-Occupied” traverse the three decades between their publication dates and the many miles that separate the Lower and the Upper Mississippi, demonstrating a riverine poetics that mimics the river’s flow to enact a relational cartography that defies colonial mapmaking. The poems rhetorically reclaim the historically significant Indigenous space of the Mississippi River Valley and embody on the page a space in which land and cultural memory can come together. In their remappings, both poets turn away from settler cities and their monuments toward rivers, presenting them as repositories of Native memories and suggesting that the health and future of Indigenous stories and waterways are closely linked.
{"title":"“It Carries My Feet to These Places”: The Mississippi in Joy Harjo’s and Heid E. Erdrich’s Poetic Remappings","authors":"Sara Černe","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Memory, place, and Indigenous resistance are explored in two poems whose central metaphor is the Mississippi River and the landscape near its delta and its source, respectively: “New Orleans” (1983) by the former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Muscogee) and “Pre-Occupied” (2013) by the Minneapolis-based Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) in its textual and collaborative video poem versions. I analyze these poems’ retheorizing of place by drawing on gender and Indigenous studies scholar Mishuana Goeman’s concept of “remapping,” arguing that the poems create an Indigenous Mississippi that replaces representations of the river as an icon of the U.S. empire and westward expansion. Both poets transcend regional and temporal boundaries, following the flow of the river to provide a broader definition of Indigenous homelands. Read together, “New Orleans” and “Pre-Occupied” traverse the three decades between their publication dates and the many miles that separate the Lower and the Upper Mississippi, demonstrating a riverine poetics that mimics the river’s flow to enact a relational cartography that defies colonial mapmaking. The poems rhetorically reclaim the historically significant Indigenous space of the Mississippi River Valley and embody on the page a space in which land and cultural memory can come together. In their remappings, both poets turn away from settler cities and their monuments toward rivers, presenting them as repositories of Native memories and suggesting that the health and future of Indigenous stories and waterways are closely linked.","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"8 1","pages":"1 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90039421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Theatre of Regret by David Gaertner","authors":"Melanie Braith","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81135012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala by Emil Keme’ (review)","authors":"Arturo Arias","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"4 1","pages":"158 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87924012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimíipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage by Trevor James Bond (review)","authors":"Kathleen S. Fine‐Dare","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"99 1","pages":"111 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75860587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley","authors":"Andrew Denson","doi":"10.1353/nai.2023.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2023.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41647,"journal":{"name":"NAIS-Native American and Indigenous Studies Association","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75997392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}