Duane Champagne - Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues

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Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues

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Contemporary Native American Communities

Stepping Stones to the Seventh Generation

Native American communities and people have survived through the twentieth century and are poised to embark on the twentyfirst century. The survival and continuity of Native American cultures and communities has been a varied and complex path. Hundreds of communities continue to preserve many features of their religion, government, kinship organization, values, art, ceremony, and belief systems, and to maintain political relations with the United States. The series is intended to fill an existing void in the literature on Native American contemporary world experiences. While providing a historical background, the series will focus on an interpretation of contemporary life and cultures, interpreted in their broadest contexts. The series will draw from the disciplines of Native American Studies, History, Sociology, Political Science, Religion, and Social Work, and solicit treatments of treaty interpretation, sovereign rights, incorporation into global and national economic, political, and cultural relations, land rights, subsistence rights, health and medicine, cultural preservation, contemporary spirituality, multiple genders, policy, and other issues that confront tribal communities and affect their possibilities for survival. New and culturally creative possibilities have emerged in film, theater, literature, dance, art, and other fields as a result and reflection of the challenges that have confronted Native American communities over the past centuries and will again in the coming century. We believe it is essential to examine contemporary Native American life from the point of view of Native concerns and values.

Manuscripts that examine any significant aspect of Native American contemporary life and future trends are welcome.

SeriesEditors

Troy R. Johnson Duane Champagne

American Indian Studies and History American Indian Studies Center

California State University, Long Beach 3220 Campbell Hall

Long Beach, CA 90840 Box 951548

trj@csulb.edu UCLA

Los Angeles, CA 900951548

champagn@ucla.edu

Editorial Board

Jose Barreiro (Taino Nation Antilles), Cornell University Russel Barsh, University of Lethbridge Brian Dippie, University of Victoria Lee Francis (Pueblo), University of New Mexico Carole Goldberg, UCLA Lorie Graham, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Jennie Joe (Navajo), University of Arizona

Steven Leuthold, Syracuse University Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache), Institute of American Indian Arts J. Anthony Paredes, Florida State University DennisPeck, University of Alabama Luana Ross (Confederated Salish and Kootenai), University of California, Davis.

Series Editors' Royalties Will Be Donated To The UCLA Foundation/Yellowthunder Scholarship Foundation BOOKS IN THE SERIES

Volume 1, Inuit, Whaling and Sustainability, Milton M. R. Freeman, Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya, Richard A. Caulfield, Ingmar Egede, Igor I. Krupnik, and Marc G.

Stevenson

Volume 2, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, Troy R. Johnson, editor

Volume 3, Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues, Duane Champagne, editor

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Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues

Edited by

Duane Champagne

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Contemporary Native American cultural issues / edited by Duane Champagne

p. cm.(Contemporary Native American communities v. 3)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0761990585 (cloth)

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1. Indians of North AmericaSocial conditions. 2. Indians of North AmericaEthnic Identity.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Duane Champagne

Part I

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Native Identity

1. American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual Choices and

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Development

Devon A. Mihesuah

2. The Crucible of American Indian Identity: Native Tradition versus

Colonial Imposition in Postconquest North America

Ward Churchill

Part II

Gender

3. Aboriginal Women and SelfGovernment: Challenging Leviathan

Katherine Beaty Chiste

4. The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Women's Writing

Beth Brant

5. Contemporary Tribal Codes and Gender Issues

Bruce G. Miller

Part III

Contemporary Powwow

6. The Powwow as a Public Arena for Negotiating Unity and Diversity in

American Life

Mark Mattern

7. Southwestern Oklahoma, the Gourd Dance, and "Charlie Brown"

Luke E. Lassiter

Part IV

Film And Other Media

8. Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America

Laurie Anne Whitt

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9. Native Media's Communities

Steven Leuthold

10. Shadow Catchers or Snatchers? Ethical Issues for Photographers of Native

Americans

Lee Philip Brumbaugh

Part V

Health

11. The Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse among Native Americans: The Mythical

and Real Properties

Philip A. May

12. Tobacco, Culture, and Health among Native Americans: A Historical

Review

Christina M. Pego, Robert E Hill, Glenn W Solomon, Robert M. Chisholm,

and Suzanne E. Ivey

13. Cancer Control Research among American Indians and Alaska Natives: A

Paradigm for Research Needs in the Next Millennium

Martin C. Mahoney and Arthur M. Michalek

Part VI

Environmental Issues

14. Friendly Fire: When Environmentalists Dehumanize American Indians

David Waller

15. Ecological Risk Assessment and Management: Their Failure to Value

Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Protect Tribal Homelands

Jeanette Wolfley

16. Uranium Is in My Body