The relationship between Native Americans and the academic community has become especially rocky in recent years. Both groups are grappling with troubling questions about research ethics, methodology, and theory in the field and in the classroom. With lively prose and telling arguments, NATIVES AND ACADEMICS lends clarity to the heated debate about the purpose and direction of Native American scholarship.
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1 "Introduction" / Devon A. Mihesuah (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff); 2 "American Indian History or Non-Indian Perceptions of American Indian History?" / Angela Cavender Wilson (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York); 3 "Grandmother to Grandaughter: Generations of Oral History in a Dakota Family." / Angela Cavender Wilson; 4 "Commonalty of Difference: Indian Women and History." / Devon A. Mihesuah; 5 "Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony." / Paula Gunn Allen (University of California-Los Angeles); 6 "Comfortable Fictions and the Struggle for Turf: An Essay Review of the Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies." / Vine Deloria Jr. (University of Colorado, Boulder); 7 "Ethics and Responsibilities In Writing American Indian History." / Donald L. Fixico (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo); 8 "Licensed Trafficking and Ethnogenetic Engineering." / Susan A. Miller (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); 9 "American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story." / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Eastern Washington University, Cheney); 10 "Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America." / Laurie Anne Whitt (Michigan Technological University, Houghton); 11 "On Revision and Revisionism: American Indian Representations in New Mexico." / Theodore S. Jojola (University of New Mexico-Albuquerque); 12 "American Indian Studies is for Everyone." / Duane Champagne (University of California-Los Angeles); 13 "Why Indians Should Be the Ones to Write About Indian Education." / Karen Gayton Swisher (Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas) Contributors; Index