Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality

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233 academia: Native perspective in, 38–39, 48; Native scholars in, 179– 80; oral tradition in, 130–31 acceptance, assimilation and, 34–35 Adams, William Hampton, 52, 200n16 adaptability, 6, 35, 158–59 Agha, Asif, 133 aim (American Indian Movement), 54 American history: Forbes on, 116, 205n16; as “hero” history, 49–53; misconceptions in, 10–11, 46–48, 90–91; Native view and, 12–13, 25–26 American Indian Movement (aim), 54 American Indian Studies, 126 Anasazi, 169 Anderson, Benedict, 181 animals, 20, 72, 93, 96–99 anthropology, 114–15, 120–21, 178– 79, 192n26 anti-Indian sentiment, 46, 58–60 Apaches, 154, 158 archaeology, 163, 195n35 Archibald, Robert, 168 archives, tribal, 146 Arensberg, Conrad, 195–96n38 assimilation: adaptability and, 34– 35; anti-Indian sentiment and, 46; balance and, 36; following colonization , 99; Horowitz on, 198n22; identity and, 100–101; Third Dimension and, 107–8 Athapaskans, 99 “authority, shared,” 11 autobiographies, of women, 160 Axtell, James: on approaching Indian -white relations, 190n8; on ethnohistory, 114, 191–92n25; on historians, 73–74; on Indianwhite relations, 75; on reconstructing Indian past, 54, 76–77 balance, 32–33, 36, 79–80, 88–89, 158–59 Basso, Keith, 154 Battle of Prophetstown, 66 Battle of the Little Bighorn, 101, 115 Battle of Tippecanoe, 66, 82–83 Bennett, John W., 164–65 Berkhofer, Robert Jr.: on conversion of Natives, 194–95n18; on historians , 191n17; on Indian history, 53, 116, 179 Index 234 Index Best, George, 45 Bhabha, Homi, 112 biography/biographies: oral, 140; of women, 160 Birch, L. C., 202–3n9 Bird Clan, 87 bireligiosity, 112–13 Black Elk: on circle in nature, 14; connection of, to Other Side, 43; Harney Peak hike and, 39–40; on reality, 29; seeing and, 17, 87–88; vision of, 19–20, 106 Bloch, Marc, 192n27 Brandon, William, 204–5n43 Brown, Dee, 4 Brown, Richard L., 41–43, 63–64 Bruchac, Joseph, 156, 182 Burnett, Edward, 74 Calloway, Colin, 8 Carson, Kit, 49 change: in indigenous communities, 6; as part of reality, 89 Changing Woman, 151–52 Chataw, 139 Cherokees, 69–72, 94–95, 103–4 Chickasa, 139 children: little people and, 97; storytelling and, 131, 135; women and, 157, 160–61, 162 Christianity, 111–13 circle, 14, 33, 173, 182 Circle of Life, 6, 14, 23–24 civil rights movement, 37–38 clan system, 87, 102–3, 138. See also community clown dances, 137 colonialism, 33–34, 44–46 Columbus, Christopher, 44, 47, 90– 91 community: constructing Native, 26–29; culture and, 125–26; identity and, 36; infrastructure of, 175; in Native reality, 95; oral tradition and, 144; social relations in, 31–33, 175; as unit of Native organization , 53. See also clan system; homeland Connerton, Paul, 96 constructionism, 122 continuity: in indigenous communities , 6; through oral tradition, 137–38 Coyote, 139 creation story, of Muscogee Creeks, 129–30 Creator, 154 Creeks, 69–72, 94, 103. See also Muscogee Creeks Creek War (1813–14), 69–70 cross-cultural analysis, 105 Crows, 98 culture: examining history through, 115–17, 120–22; Indian-white relations and, 117–19; oral tradition and, 144 Custer, George Armstrong, 49 dance, 137 Daniel, Glyn, 193n30 Debo, Angie, 76 de Laudonnière, René, 45–46 Deloria, Jr., Vine, 25, 75, 179, 180, 183, 186n5 deserts, 168 Diné, 151–52 dreams, 104 Drinon, Richard, 59 Dunaway, David, 140 earth: archaeology and, 163; Changing Woman and, 151–52; connection with, 150–55; medicine from, 157; as mother, 156; spirituality Index 235 and, 163–64; women and, 170–71. See also land; nature; sacred places East, 3–4, 12, 17, 23, 46, 51, 56–57, 103, 138, 152 Eastman, Charles Alexander, 37 Edmunds, David, 179 Eggan, Fred, 177–78 e ho sa, 167 elements, 103–4 “End of the Trail” (Fraser), 60 environmental studies, 123 ethnocentrism, 9–11 ethnogeography, 123 ethnography, 119, 121 ethnohistory, 76–77, 113–14, 121, 178, 191–92nn25,26 evidence, 24–25, 144–45, 169, 176, 192n27 evolution, 193n7 Ewers, John, 55–56 Fall (Autumn), 66 Fenton, William, 114 Ferguson, Erna, 165 Figlio, Karl, 195n37 Finnegan, Ruth, 137 fire, 92, 94, 99, 103, 129, 138, 154 First Dimension of Indian-white relations: American “hero” history and, 49–53; anti-Indian violence and, 58–60; defined, 4; definition and origin of history and, 48–49; frontier history and, 56– 57; Indian history and, 53–56, 61–63; Indian stereotypes and, 60–61; invention of “Indian” and, 43–48; racism and, 57–58 First...