So You Want to Write About American Indians?: A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars

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BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page 159 / / So You Want to Write about American Indians? / Devon Abbott Mihesuah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [First Page] [159], (1) Lines: 0 to 93 ——— 0.0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [159], (1) Index acknowledgments, 79–80 activists, 13–16 agents, 123 alcoholism, 24 Alexie, Sherman, 2 Alfred, Taiaiake, Peace, Power, Righteousness : An Indigenous Manifesto, 52 Allen, Paula Gunn, x, 49; The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, 19 All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (LaDuke), 53 American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 33 American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest (Williams), 52 American Indians: Answers to Today’s Questions (Utter), 53 American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities (Mihesuah), 17, 120 American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children (Hirschfelder), 17 American Indian Quarterly (journal), x, xi, 33, 41, 58, 87–89 American Indian Women: A Guide to Research (Bataille and Sands), 33 American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives (Bataille and Sands), 33 American Indigenous Women: Decolonization , Empowerment, Activism (Mihesuah), 19 Amon Carter Museum, 22 Andrews, Lynn, 15 anthologies, 56–57 Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth (CookLynn ), 6 Apaches, 9 Arizona State University, 46–47 Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale (McDermott), 66–67 audience: activists, 13–15; general, 12– 13; major professor and committee, 13; New Agers, 15; revisionists, 14; scholars, 15; tribal members, 14 author information form, 134 awards, 135 Bataille, Gretchen, American Indian Women: A Guide to Research, 33; American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives, 33; The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies, 17 Bettmann, Otto L., 60 A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States (book), 34 biographies, 49–50 Black Hills Claims and Treaties Council , 63 book covers, 134 book manuscript review process, 116– 19 book proposals, 113–14 book reviews, 56, 157–58 books: mass market, 12; poorly written , 125–26; scholarly, 11–12; trade, 12 159 BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page 160 / / So You Want to Write about American Indians? / Devon Abbott Mihesuah index 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [160], (2) Lines: 93 to 226 ——— 0.0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [160], (2) book signings, 135 Brown, Jennifer, Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country, 19 Caldecott Medal, 66–67 Calloway, Colin G., Writing in Indian History, 1985–1990, 34 Caldwell-Wood, Naomi, Selective Bibliography and Guide for “I” is Not for Indian, 67 Campbell, Ben Nighthorse, 28 Carter, Asa, The Education of Little Tree, 63 casinos, 24 catalogs, 134–35 chat rooms, 43–44 Cherokee Female and Male Seminaries , 35, 36 “Cherokee Princess Grandmother,” 17–18 Cherokees, 11, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32, 66 Chickasaws, 29 childrens books: fiction, 64–65; issues when writing, 65–66; stereotyping in, 3, 8–9, 19 Choctaws, 23, 29, 66, 68 “civilization,” 25 Clancy, Tom, 110; Hunt for Red October , 119 columns, 54 Comanches, 9, 32 commercial presses, 99 conference papers, 55–56 conferences, meeting publishers at, 102–3, 104 Connell, Evan S., Son of the Morning Star, 59 contracts, 127–28 Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth, x; Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth, 6 copy, 135 copyright, 128 cover letters, 93 credit, giving, 78–79 Creeks (Muscogees), 29 Cross, William, 39 current events writing, 52 curriculum vita (cv), 137–56 Curtis, Charles, 27–28 Custer, George Armstrong, 32, 59, 101 Dances with Wolves (movie), 2, 9 Dawes Rolls, 29 deadlines, 128 Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (Smith), 6, 61 Deloria, Vine, Jr., 120 diseases, 25 “dissertationeze,” 59 Doctrine of Discovery, 19–20 Duncan Weekly Eagle (newspaper), 48–49 editing, 81–86; guides, 42; requesting, assistance, 85–86, 130–31 The Education of Little Tree (Carter), 63 e-mail, 44 enthusiasm for writing, 39–43, 45–46 Erdrich, Louis, 2 ethics in writing, 46–47, 49, 74–80 ethnic fraud, 5 ethnographies, 48–49 ethnohistory, 33 fiction, 129–30; challenges in writing, 62–63, 72–73; repetitious writing in, 64, 71; submitting, to university presses, 123–25; what is needed in...