The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico

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· 263 · Acoma Pueblo (Ortiz), 16 Adams, Rachel, 19–20, 183–84 Adler, Stella, 80 “Affair at Easter, The” (Riggs), 73 agave. See maguey AID. See American Indian Development AIM. See American Indian Movement Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle), 38 Alexie, Sherman, 32, 86, 176 Alfred, Taiaiake, 59 Allen, Chad, 2, 60, 65, 74–75, 111, 132 Almanac of the Dead (Silko), 17, 100, 168, 173, 183–91, 192, 194 Alvarado, Pedro de, 139, 181 América Indígena (journal), 156 American Indian, The (periodical), 28 American Indian Authors (Hirschfelder), 36 American Indian Development (AID), 111 American Indian Fiction (Larson), 35 American Indian Literary Nationalism (Weaver/Womack/Warrior), 147 American Indian literature: and diplomacy, 110–34; and geographical spaces, 75; and identity, 35–36; indigenismo in, 56– 57; politics of, 18; prerenaissance novelists, 53–54; renaissance, 17, 23–25, 30, 135; solidarity in, 22. See also specific works; specific writers American Indian Literatures (Ruoff), 36 American Indian Movement (AIM), 174 American Indian Novelists (Colonnese/Owens), 35 American Indians: alliance with Chicana/os, 3; civil rights movement, 23, 27, 59, 151, 203; diplomacy among, 114, 120, 134; as ethnic bloc, 29; and indigenous Mexican immigrants, 21; legal status of, 114–15; migration by, 16; in national discourse, 37; objectification of, 35; public presence of, 24; representation of, 23, 86, 108. See also specific topics; specific tribes American studies, 19–20 Anderson, Mabel Washbourne, 75 Andrade, Timoteo, 204 anishinabe nagamon (Vizenor), 181 Anishinabe nation, 175 Apess, William, 111 Arapaho nation, 21 Armstrong, Mary. See Downing, Mary Arrow Going Home. See Grah Moh Art as Performance, Story as Criticism (Womack), 69 Index 264 INDEX assimilation policy, 2, 60, 69, 70, 121– 24, 127, 129, 148 Austin, Mary, 125 Autonomous Department for Indian Affairs, 41 Aztecs, 8–10, 14, 47, 137, 140, 143, 164, 188, 193 Aztlán, location of, 9–10 Balderama, Francisco, 18 Barbachano y Tarrazo, Miquel, 93 Battle of Little Big Horn (1876), 118 Becoming Aztlán (Riley), 11 Beloved Path, 70–71, 99 Benton-Banai, Edward, 177 Beyea, Basil, 32 BIA. See Bureau of Indian Affairs Big Lake (Riggs), 65, 67, 73, 79–82 Birchfield, D. L., 35 Bird, Gloria, 174 Black Elk, Nicholas, 24 Black Elk Speaks (Black Elk), 24 Black Gold (Karlson), 84 Black Jack Davy (Oskison), 54, 59, 82, 201 blood politics, 71–72, 97 Blood Politics (Sturm), 6 Boas, Franz, 38 Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo, 16, 40, 53, 87–88 Books Abroad (magazine), 30, 152 Books of Chilam Balam, 180–81, 190 Boone, Elizabeth Hill, 190 borders: and colonialism, 19; and settler-colonial nation, 8, 10–11, 14, 19, 22, 61, 63, 185; transborder experiences, 19, 21, 184 Borowitz, Albert, 72–73, 79, 80, 223n48 Bowls, Chief. See Duwali Boylen, Elaine, 34 bracero program. See guest worker program Braunlich, Phyllis, 24, 66, 75–76 Brinton, Daniel G., 45–46, 52 Bronson, Ruth Muskrat, 24, 107–8, 148, 199, 203 Brooks, Lisa, 111, 193–95 Brophy, William, 154 Brothers Three (Oskison), 54, 201 Brown, John, 12 Brown, Kirby, 203 Broyard, Anatole, 69 Brundage, Burr Cartwright, 137 Bruyneel, Kevin, 199 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, 117, 119 Burack, A. S., 34 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 13, 18, 123, 142, 151, 154, 160 Burgess, Benjamin, 176–77 Burton, Jeffrey, 76 Buster, Rosie, 75 Bynner, Witter, 85, 201 Byrd, Rudolph, 69 Caddo nation, 21 Callahan, S. Alice, 54 Calles, Plutarco Elías, 117 Campisi, Jack, 200 Candelaria, Maria, 51 Capron, Allyn, 170 Cárdenas, Lázaro, 19, 40–41, 65, 94–95, 134, 141, 154, 155 Case of the Unconquered Sisters, The (Downing), 32, 33, 34 Caste War of Yucatán, 91, 97, 98, 99, 180 Catechism in the Indian Language (Eliot), 178 Cat Screams, The (Beyea adaptation), 32 Cat Screams, The (Downing), 91, 96, 197; and American Indian novel INDEX 265 tradition, 53, 59–60; criminality in, 42; indigenismo in, 14, 27, 41–45, 48, 50, 53; indigenous revolution in, 46, 60, 62; nagualism in, 45–53, 59; praise of, 34, 36; publication of, 32; settler-colonialism in, 85; storyline, 43–45 CBEP. See Choctaw Bilingual Education Program (CBEP) census classification, 3–5 Ceremony (Silko), 48, 86, 178, 183, 187, 197–98 Chahta Anompa (Downing), 63 Cherniavsky, Eva, 183–84 Cherokee National Council, 113 Cherokee Night, The (Riggs): assessments of, 67–73; blood politics in, 71–72, 81, 97; Claremore Mound in, 73, 74, 75, 77, 79, 137; dispossession of, 102; doom in, 66, 69, 198; incest...