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Kim — University of Nebraska Press / Page 219 / / ALANIS OBOMSAWIN / Randolph Lewis 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 [First Page] [219], (1) Lines: 0 to 73 ——— 0.5pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [219], (1) notes Preface 1. Pick,“Storytelling and Resistance,” 90. 2. White,“Alanis Obomsawin,” 364. 3. Pick,“Storytelling and Resistance,” 78. 4. Loft,“Sovereignty, Subjectivity, and Social Action.” 5. Bird Runningwater quoted in Harewood,“Alanis Obomsawin.” 6. Zimmermann, States of Emergency, 197. 7. George Pevere quoted on the back cover of Beard and White, eds., North of Everything. 8. Fiske,“Act Globally, Think Locally,” 277. 9. Singer, Wiping the War Paint off the Lens, 9. 10. Olson, Silences, ix. 11. Kalafatic,“Knots,” 68. 12. Jaimes-Guerrero,“Savage Erotica Exotica,” 209. 1. Abenaki Beginnings Epigraph from Alanis Obomsawin: Comment made in a public talk after a film screening, Norman, Oklahoma, spring 2002. 1. Alioff and Levine,“The Long Walk,” 10. 2. Alioff and Levine,“The Long Walk,” 10. 3. The Abenaki language is divided into Eastern and Western, which are distinct languages. By the 1970s, there were only twenty-one fluent speakers of Western Abenaki, all elderly (Day,“Western Abenaki” [1998], 221). Kim — University of Nebraska Press / Page 220 / / ALANIS OBOMSAWIN / Randolph Lewis 220 NOTES TO PAGES 2–8 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 [220], (2) Lines: 73 to 126 ——— * 17.5pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [220], (2) 4. Background on Abenaki history and land comes from Day, “Western Abenaki” (1998), 205. 5. Obomsawin, Bush Lady, liner notes. 6. Day,“Western Abenaki” (1978), 153. 7. Alioff and Levine,“The Long Walk,” 10. 8. Alanis Obomsawin, interview with author, Montreal, August 2002. 9. Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn, 144. 10. Alioff and Levine,“The Long Walk,” 10. 11. See Gallagher, Breeding Better Vermonters; and Perkins, “Review of Eugenics in Vermont.” 12. Fisher, quoted in Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn, 146 (for more on Fisher, see 146–47). 13. Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn, 148 (on the Eugenics Survey, see generally 146–49). According to Wiseman: “The German scholars interested in eugenics found Vermont’s Eugenics Survey useful for crafting the Final Solution that was later pursued by the Nazis” (227). 14. Alanis Obomsawin, interview with author, Montreal, August 2002. 15. Vermont’s Sterilization Law of 1931, Laws of Vermont, 31st biennial sess. (March 31, 1931), no. 174, pp. 194–96. 16. Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn, 149. 17. Greer, “Alanis Obomsawin,” 27. Put into law in 1876, the Indian Act remains one of the most important pieces of legislation affecting Native peoples in Canada. In addition to bringing together existing legislation, the original act set controversial new standards for claiming Indian identity. Over the last 130 years, the act has been subjected to a number of important modifications. See Roy with Alfred, “Legislation Affecting Canada’s Native People,” 550. 18. Alioff and Levine,“The Long Walk,” 10. 19. Information from Gordon M. Day cited in Foster and Cowan, eds., New England’s Native Past, 73, 231. 20. Obomsawin, Bush Lady, liner notes. 21. Obomsawin, Bush Lady, liner notes. 22. The “dossier” (the 1940 Positio of the Historical Section of the Sacred Congregation . . . ) is quoted in Dauria,“Kateri Tekakwitha,” 67–68. Dauria’s is the best article that I have found on Tekakwitha. 23. Dauria,“Kateri Tekakwitha,” 68. [44.222.118.194] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 05:38 GMT) Kim — University of Nebraska Press / Page 221 / / ALANIS OBOMSAWIN / Randolph Lewis NOTES TO PAGES 9–17 221 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 [221], (3) Lines: 126 to 158 ——— * 17.5pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [221], (3) 24. For more on Drums along the Mohawk, see Wilson, “Celluloid Sovereignty ,” 204–7. 25. Anderson, Crucible of War, 188. 26. Rogers, Journals, 107–9, quoted in Foster and Cowan, eds., New England ’s Native Past, 129. 27. Atlantic Monthly, August 1937, excerpted in James and Brown, eds., Book Review Digest, 837; New Republic, July 14...