X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent

Index

AAIANP (Association of American Indian and Alaska Native Professors ), 42, 43 aboriginalism, 68, 137–38 aboriginal rights, 134–35 Adams, David Wallace, 22 Adley-Santa Maria, Bernadette, 139 adoption, 179, 181, 183 agency, 1, 3, 125, 127, 173 Ahnishinahbæótjibway, 165–66, 169 AIM (American Indian Movement), 30–31, 55, 153 Alcoff, Linda Martín, 38 Alexie, Sherman, 21, 104, 202 Alfred, Gerald R., 121. See also Alfred, Taiaiake Alfred, Taiaiake: on aboriginalism, 68, 137–38; on blood quantum, 143; on citizenship, 143, 170, 182; on decolonization, 111–13; on Indian (term), 68, 69; on nationalism , 114, 133–37, 142–45, 163; on nation-building (as Gerald Alfred), 121; on obesity, 143–44; on peoplehood, 139; on political language, 134–35, 136; on sovereignty , 135 alienation, 116, 117 American Indian Chicago Conference, 73, 109 American Indian Literary Nationalism (Weaver), 147, 155, 158–59, 170 American Indian Movement (AIM), 30–31, 55, 153 American Renaissance, 148 anishinaabeg, 3, 52–53, 69, 86–87, 88, 90 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 99 arbitrariness, 11 Aristotle, 108 Arnold, Matthew, 79–80 assimilation, 33, 55, 124; Alfred on, 68, 137; Boudinot on, 128; culture cops and, 96; identity and, 38, 49; as modernization, 2, 128, 130; Native supporters of, 62, 63, 128; Neizen on, 132–33; resistance to, 63 Association of American Indian and Alaska Native Professors (AAIANP), 42, 43 Banks, Dennis, 30, 63, 156 Baraka, Amiri, 152–53 I N D E X 212 I n d E x Barker, Debra K. S., 28 Barker, Joanne, 136 Beaulieu, David, 51 behavior, identity and, 45, 48, 56–57, 58 Being and Becoming Indian (Clifton), 18 “Being Indigenous” (Alfred, Corntassel), 144 being vs. doing, 59–60, 66; Alfred and, 133–34, 142–43, 145; citizenship and, 171, 173; Garroutte on, 51, 56–57; in Ojibwe culture words, 84, 87, 89; Wub-e-ke-niew and, 170 belonging, 177, 178, 183 Bena, Minnesota, 14–15 Benhabib, Seyla, 82–83, 95, 97, 99, 106 Berkhofer, J. Robert, Jr., 66–67 bimaadizi, 87–88, 94 bimaa- words, 88 Black Aesthetics, 151, 152–53, 154, 155, 160 “Black Arts Movement, The” (Neal), 152 Black Panther Party, 153 Black Power movement, 151–52, 153 Blaeser, Kimberly, 5 blood quantum, 47, 56, 57, 143, 179–84, 185 boarding schools, 21–23, 49, 74 Boas, Franz, 80–81, 104 body: as metaphor, 130–31, 144 Boudinot, Elias, 27, 36–37, 127–29 Breggin, Peter, 168 Brooks, Lisa, 20 Brown, Charles Brockden, 148 Brown, Solyman, 149, 150 Bry, Theodorus de, 24 Buttes, Barbara, 45 Campbell, Ben Nighthorse, 41–42 Campeau, Tammy, 91 Campeau, Tara, 91 capitalism, 27 Carmichael, Stokely, 152 Castells, Manuel, 60–62, 172 Ceremony (Silko), 157 Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB), 47 Césaire, Aimé, 111, 112, 113 Channing, Wallace, 149, 150 “Chant to the Fire-fly,” 104 Charleston, Steve, 141, 142 Chavis, Ben, 138 checkerboard (space), 17, 21, 167 Cherokee/Freedmen case, 46–47 Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia, 126 Cherokee Phoenix, 127–28, 129 Cherokee Trilogy, 126 Chow, Rey, 26–27 Churchill, Ward, 29 citizens, 47, 170–74, 179–80, 181; as audience, 159; Israeli, 176–78, 187; nationals vs., 188; naturalized, 187 citizenship, 170–78; Black nationalism and, 151; blood quantum and, 143; identity and, 172–74, 178; ION and, 55; language of, 171, 183; MCT criteria, 182–85; products of, 174, 178; recommended criteria, 186–88; removal of, 46–47, 171; as tool, 59, 181–82, 186–88. See also disenrollment; enrollment civil disobedience, 173 civilization, 2, 9, 128; culture and, 78–81, 82, 83–84; education and, 124; savagism vs., 24–25, 49, 67, 150 clanship, 171 clan system, 128, 166 I n d E x 213 Clifton, James, 18 Cohen, Anthony, 113 Collier, John, 182 communities: ethnie and, 121; nationalism vs., 19, 136; organic, 175; political, 171–72, 185; resistance identity and, 63; values and, 108–9 communitism, 33 conceptual separatism, 133, 136, 142, 144 Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (Smith), 38 constitutions, 115, 171, 180, 182–85 constitutive myths, 141, 175 contamination, 1 Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth, 54, 154 Copway, George, 62, 63, 130–31, 144 Corntassel, Jeff, 139, 144 cosmopolitan patriotism, 99 Crow Dog, Mary, 54 Cruz, Antonio Hernández, 65 cultural evolution, 80–81 cultural people, 91–92, 93, 94 cultural resistance, 63, 119, 121–23, 186; literary nationalism vs., 156; nationalism vs., 121, 131, 139, 158 culture: American concept of, 80–81; class vs., 163; culturing, 88...