Representing Native American history: Introduction

Public Historian

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 9-18

  Kidwell, Clara Sue ^a   Plane, Ann Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0009211591     PISSN: 02723433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3379784     Document Type: Editorial

References (28)

1. Holland Cotter, "New Museum Celebrating American Indian Voices," The New York Times, 28 October 1994
2. Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (New York: Vintage Books, 1991), 13
3. See his essay, "Ethnohistory: An Historian's Viewpoint," in James Axtell, The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), 5, 15
4. Axtell cites H. Stuart Hughes, History as Art and as Science: Twin Vistas on the Past (New York: Harper and Row, 1964)
5. in his footnote to the use of the term "retrospective cultural anthropology." He also cites William Fenton, "Training of Historical Ethnologists," American Anthropologist, n.s. 54 (1952): 328-39
6. See Stephen Eddy Snow, Performing the Pilgrims: A Study in Ethnohistorical Role-Playing at Plimoth Plantation (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), 158-59
7. See James Clifford's essay, "Identity in Mashpee," in his book, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), 277-346
8. William N. Fenton, "Iroquois Suicide: A Study in the Stability of a Culture Pattern," Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 128, Anthropology Paper no. 14 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941), 83-137
9. Helen Hornbeck Tanner, "Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin (1903-1988), Founder of the American Society for Ethnohistory," Ethnohistory 38, no. 1 (1991): 65-68
10. Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (Chapel Hill: for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1975)
11. Frederick E. Hoxie, "The Problem of Indian History," The Social Science Journal 25, no. 4 (1988): 392
12. For this discussion of the marginalization of American Indians from the history of colonial America and the critique of ethnohistory, see James H. Merrell, "Some Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians," The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. (1989): 94-119, esp. 114
13. Good reviews of new work can be found in Colin G. Calloway, ed., New Directions in American Indian History (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992)
14. The enthusiastic reception of such works as Richard White's The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
15. and Ramón Gutiérrez, "When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away": Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991), give just a small indication of the vigor of this field in early American history
16. Peter Nabokov, Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press [1969])
17. Tijerina established the Alianza Federal de las Mercedes, some of whose members attacked the courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, in 1966. See also Gerald Vizenor, Tribal Scenes and Ceremonies (Minneapolis: The Nodin Press, 1976), 49-80
18. Richard Handler, "Who Owns the Past? History, Cultural Property, and the Logic of Possessive Individualism," in The Politics of Culture, ed. Brett Williams (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), 63, 66-72
19. Frederick E. Hoxie, Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
20. See Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), esp. chaps. 1 and 2
21. For examples, see the type of narratives contained in two autobiographies edited by Frank S. Linderman: Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1930; rpt. 1962)
22. and Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974)
23. For a larger discussion of autobiography as a genre, see David H. Bramble, III, American Indian Autobiography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)
24. Gretchen M. Bataille and Karen Mullen Sands, ed., American Indian Women Telling Their Lives (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984): chap. 2, esp. 29-31, 42-46
25. and Greg Sarris, Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
26. Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory, 9
27. See Clifford, The Predicament of Culture, 317-27; many historians and anthropologists have discussed their personal experiences as expert witnesses
28. For example, see Jack Campisi, The Mashpee Indians: Tribe on Trial (Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1991): xii-xiii, 7-8, 19-21, 31