1986 On Being an Indian American

2013

History Compass, 2006

This article examines history writing on American Indian education to show its movement from a focus on federal policy to studies that incorporate Native people’s perspectives. The article discusses the benefits and challenges of using oral histories, interviews, and autobiographies for historical analysis and points to the value of a multi‐voiced, interdisciplinary approach.

annual conference of the American Library …, 1991

Choice Reviews Online

Multicultural Review, 1992

1993

Literatures created by American Indians illustrate the positive potential that expanding the literary canon has for helping to achieve a more democratic classroom. Expanding the idea of what constitutes a text worthy of study enhances students' degree of involvement in and sense of connection to curriculum content and helps them become better equipped to participate in democratic processes. Affording students meaningful reading experiences in response to a broadened, more extensive and inclusive set of reading choices increases the probability of their participation and involvement. Three recent young adult novels by American Indian authors include such culturally specific themes as: prejudice and discrimination toward Indians; hopelessness regarding the Indian situation; mixed-blood ancestry; alienation from non-Indian peers; Indian/non Indian friendships; and capturing/recapturing tribal identity, spirituality, and traditions. Through exposure to the experiences of American Indians (and by extension, those of members of other racial and ethnic minority groups, as well as women), students gain a more complete understanding of the diversity of America. (RS)

2020

What we mean by is the trouble made by Identity Crisis is about the social role of the individual and gives the meaning of losing of the individual personality goes on . it was ranging from the person to the culture as a reason to the U.S. Society. The perons become symbolic of the crises of America. One of the era's most prolific and successful dramatists who reflected the identity crisis in his writings is Arthur Kopit (May 10,1937). He is a writer and actor. He is a two - time Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Indians and Wings) and a three- time Tony Award nominee: Best play Indians (1970), Best play Wings (1979), and Best book of a musical for Nine (1982). This research discusses the work Indians (1969). The play reflects the social and political realities in 1968.The United States had just experienced explosive racial tension in the wake of Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War was one of its bloodiest periods. The play transcends its immediate political context. It rai...

2019

One feature of United States public memory is the way in which it tends to neglect the Native American perspective on mainstream American history, regardless of their involvement. This holds true even for the nineteen-sixties, a decade that is generally seen as multi-faceted. Even if there are countless established memories of this well-remembered decade, however, the Native American narrative is not one of them. Using Vine Deloria’s Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) and We Talk, You Listen (1970), this paper will explore Native American understandings of the Vietnam War and the African American freedom struggle. Both were focal points of division in United States society at the time and have since come to define public memory of the nineteensixties, but are rarely considered from a Native American perspective.

2006

Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 2020

Studying the history of American Indians today requires an interdisciplinary approach capable of considering both the native peoples' interaction with the Euroamericans and the internal processes occurring in each distinct population. Researching about American Indians implies an exercise in approximation. The practice of ethnohistory helps the scholar find the necessary perspective for a broad, yet punctual, diachronic and synchronic analysis. However, this approach, initiated in the twentieth century, further evolved as scholars started reexamining the ideological roots of some ethnohistorical studies. Recent scholarship has benefited also from the emergence of native historians and ethnohistorians who have contributed to provide their own reading of American Indian culture and history. Moreover, today scholars from different disciplines subscribe to it as the only possible approach to reach a proper understanding of American Indian history and culture.