Captured in the Middle: Tradition and Experience in Contemporary Native American Writing

Index

INDEX Absolute principles, z8 acculturation, 24, 40 All but the Waltz (Clearman-Blew), 38 allegory. ZZ, 48 ABen, Paula Gunn, 81-8z, 84 American history, 4 American holocaust, 4Z, 49 American Indian Movement, 46 American Indian Quarterly, 105 American Indians: as topic of interest in higher education, 5; primary values of, 6; and academic achievement, 13; as perceived in the classroom, 14; resistance to assimilation , 23; literary criticism by, ,6; women writers, 80, 81; and basketball, 116-17 American Indians, American Scholars , and the American Literary Canon (Littlefield), 43 Amish,64 Ancient Child, The (Momaday), 44 anthropology, 86 antihero in American Indian writing ,24 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 44 Armstrong, Jeannette, 54-55 assimilation, 23 authenticity debate: and intellectual sovereignty, 27; and identity, 27,45; and redescription, 38; and issues within, 41; and Vine Deloria Jr., 4Z; and Arnold Krupat, 43; and cultural ownership, 43; and negative capability, 48, 147; and autobiography, 70 175 INDEX autobiography, 3, 26, 70, 71-1'1., 76, 77,106-7 Baker, Houston, 32-33 Baker Massacre, 109, 124 Balsamroot (Clearman-Blew), 38 basketball, 116-17 Beet Queen, The (Erdrich), 101, 142 Beidler, Peter G., 105 Benjamin, Walter, 153 Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr., 24. 31, 158 n. 7 Bevis, William, 106 bicultural, 4 Black Elk Speaks, 130 Black Hawk, 26 Black Hills, S.D., 8 blood quantum, 31, 34, 36 Blue Duck, 31, 37 Boyarin, Jonathan, 49, 145, 4 6, 47, 151,153 Boyer, Paul, 15 "Breeds," 39 brule, 30 , 90 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 15, 32,42 Burlington-Northern, 8 Bush, Barney, 70 Butler, Octavia, 51 Campbell, Maria, 37,55 capitalism, 25 Castillo, Susan Perez, 101, 142 Catch Colt (Larson), 72-73 Cafuolicism, 90, 91 Ceremony (Silko), 44 4 0-41 Chambeaux, Louis, 78 Chevron, 8 Chivington, John, 50 Christianity, 60, 48 circle, American Indian concept of,56 circular fuinking, contrasted to linear thinking, 59 class size and academic achievement , 12-13 Clearman-Blew, Mary, 38 Clifford, James: and identity, 26, 35; and racial classification, 30; The Predicament ofCulture, 127; and "serious fictions," 127 Cogewea (Mourning Dove), 37 Colden, Cadwallader, 131 Collier, John, 44 colonization, 7, 9, 24. 49 color and racial classification, 30 Conoco,8 Coppola, Francis, 58 Culleton, Beatrice, 55 cultural ownership and the authenticity debate, 43 cultural superiority, 10,15 Curtis, Charies, 93 Custer, George Armstrong, 64 Custer Died for Your Sins (Deloria), 42.43,64 Dawes Severalty Act, 33,78, B9 Dead Voices (Vizenor), 45 death, 6, 7, 60, 62 Death ofTim Loney, The (Welch): and American Indian identity, 37; as second-stage novel, # and interracial relationships, 109-10 Decker Coal, 8 17 6 INDEX Deloria, Vine, Jr.: and criticism of higher education, 17; compared to Northrop Frye, 19; seminar on, 40; and authenticity debate, 42; Custer Diedfor Your Sins, 42, 43, 6~ and pragmatism, 59, 129: on attitudes to death, 60, 62; God Is Red, 60, 63, 65; and community and place, 66: and rhetorical strategies, 68; and comparison ofAmerican Indians and Jews, 148 Devereaux, George, 92 Dewey, John, 129 double bind, 13, 14, 43 dream culture, 7 Durham, Jimmie, 35, 72, 82 Eakin, John Paul, 77 Eastman, Charles, 26 education, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12., 15, 16 Ellison, Bruce, 8 Emberley, Julia, 55 Erdrich, Louise: and ethnography, 25; Love Medicine, 84; and storytelling , 84; and mixed-blood, 87; Tracks, 89; The Beet Queen, 101; and pragmatism, 141 essentialism, 27, 43,81 ethnic professors, 13-14 Euramerican principles and identitY ,31 exclusion: and strategies ofwriting and representation, 31; as strategy to reduce American Indian numbers , 32; methods of, 34 exclusivist territoriality, 17 Exxon, 8 Family: and violence, 58, 72; and matriarchy, 78 Fay, Brian, 10 FBI,8 Federal Register, 32 feminism and American Indian women, 7, 80, 81 Flannery, Regina, 137 Foghorn (Geiogamah), 29 Fools Crow (Welch), 108 Forbes,Jack,28,36 Fort Belknap Reservation, 5, 39, 124 Fort Laramie Treaty of1868, 8 Foucault, Michel, 154 Freire, Paolo, 12 Frye, Northrop, 19 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 33 Geiogamah, Hanay, 29 gender, 81 General Allotment/Dawes Act of 1887,33,78,89 Generation X, 6 genocide, 60, 61, 147-49: ofAmerican Indians, 5. 42, 49; as an ongoing policy, 17; rationalization and denial of, :n; consequences of, 40; acknowledgment of, 48; and scholarship, 58; and postapocaJypse theory, 144 Gibson, William, 51, 52 Gilman, Sander, 76 Gish, Robert F., 113 Godfather, The (movie), 58 God Is Red (Deloria), 60, 63, 65 Goldberg, David, 53 Gourevitch, Philip, 58, 132...