Native American Performance and Representation

Contents

Preface vii Introduction 1 Part I Reframing Dance, Performance, and Traditional Stories for a Postmodern Era 1 Inventing Native Modern Dance: A Tough Trip through Paradise Daystar/Rosalie Jones 19 2 Old Spirits in a New World: Pacific Northwest Performance: Identity, Authenticity, Theatricality Sarah Bryant-Bertail 40 3 Owners of the Past: Readbacks or Tradition in Mi’kmaq Narratives Anne-Christine Hornborg 61 4 The Pocahontas Myth and Its Deconstruction in Monique Mojica’s Play Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots Maria Lyytinen 78 Part II The Native Body in Performance 5 Stories from the Body: Blood Memory and Organic Texts Monique Mojica 97 6 Acts of Transfer: The 1975 and 1976 Productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company Julie Pearson-Little Thunder 110 Contents vi Contents 7 Embodiment as a Healing Process: Native American Women and Performance Shelley Scott 123 8 The Hearts of Its Women: Rape, (Residential Schools), and Re-membering Ric Knowles 136 Part III Native Representation in Drama 9 “People with Strong Hearts”: Staging Communitism in Hanay Geiogamah’s Plays Body Indian and 49 Jaye T. Darby 155 10 Coming-of-Age on the Rez: William S. Yellow Robe’s The Independence of Eddie Rose as Native American Bildungsdrama David Krasner 171 11 Feathers, Flutes, and Drums: Images of the Indigenous Americans in Chicano Drama Jorge Huerta 182 12 Metamora’s Revenge Bruce McConachie 193 Part IV Challenging Stereotypes through Film 13 Performance and “Trickster Aesthetics” in the Work of Mohawk Filmmaker Shelley Niro Kristin L. Dowell 207 14 Speaking Lives, Filming Lives: George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva Annie Kirby-Singh 222 Notes 235 About the Contributors 271 Index 279 ...