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[Review Of] Susan Guyette. Community-Based Research: A Handbook For Native Americans, Terry Simmons
[Review Of] Susan Guyette. Community-Based Research: A Handbook For Native Americans, Terry Simmons
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Community-Based Research has a clear sense of purpose: "This handbook is intended as a practical research guide for an era of self-determination in community development" (xvii). The author seeks to provide the means for research to be planned, designed, and implemented by community members with the research priorities set "by the community that lives the socio-economic conditions, rather than by an outsider who studies the community for informational purposes" (2).
[Review Of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh In The United States, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh In The United States, Phillips G. Davies
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Ashton's mid-sized volume about the Welsh in America joins the first, and very short account by David Williams, Wales and America (published in Wales in 1946 as part of a bilingual pamphlet series), and Edward George Hartmann's Americans from Wales (nearly three hundred pages, published in 1967 and reprinted in America in 1978).
[Review Of] Jeffrey J. Crow And Flora J. Hatley, Eds. Black Americans In North Carolina And The South, Ashton Wesley Welch
[Review Of] Jeffrey J. Crow And Flora J. Hatley, Eds. Black Americans In North Carolina And The South, Ashton Wesley Welch
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Current trends in Afroamerican history toward local, regional, and quantitative history accentuate the prior preoccupation of historians of the Afroamerican experience with considerations of national significance to the all but total disregard of local black history. This volume is consistent with the present drift. With the exception of the concluding essay, Black Americans in North Carolina and the South is an historiographical exercise. It is a result of a 1981 symposium, of the same title, sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Another historiographical volume on North Carolinian history, also co-edited by Jeffrey Crow, resulted from the …
[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Eclipse, Steve Pett
[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Eclipse, Steve Pett
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Linda Hogan's poetry is of the "world," a word which recurs frequently in Eclipse, her latest book of poems. The poems are personal yet not confessional. She speaks of the earth -- and for the earth -- in the roles of human being, Native American, woman, mother, daughter, and granddaughter. They are not the poems of self absorption, of reduction
[Review Of] William Oandasan. Round Valley Songs, Victor Macaruso
[Review Of] William Oandasan. Round Valley Songs, Victor Macaruso
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William Oandason, Senior Editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and editor of his own journal, A, a Journal of Contemporary Literature, has published other books of poetry, A Branch of California Redwood (reviewed by Kenneth M. Roemer, Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Summer, 1984) and Moving Inland.
[Review Of] Robert Fay Schrader. The Indian Arts And Crafts Board, Helen Schuster
[Review Of] Robert Fay Schrader. The Indian Arts And Crafts Board, Helen Schuster
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The current popularity, eminence, and international appreciation of the creativity of American Indian artists are such a viable part of the contemporary art scene that most of us are well aware of this distinguished achievement. But it was not always so. Robert Fay Schrader presents detailed, historic review of the trials, endeavors, and vicissitudes of a small but select group of men and women who sought to gain public recognition of American Indian arts and crafts during the first half ofthe twentieth century. The general focus is on the activities of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, an advisory and …
[Review Of] Samuel Selvon. Moses Ascending, Laverne GonzáLez
[Review Of] Samuel Selvon. Moses Ascending, Laverne GonzáLez
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Sam Selvon's fifth novel Moses Ascending addresses the ethnic experience with dual prongs: linguistic and racial. Although the situation of the novel is not new -- the plight of the subject come to the motherland -- having been treated by George Lamming and others, this handling of the basic theme is: all the sacred cows fall before Selvon's iconoclastic pen. Moses, the "I" protagonist, is but a faintly veiled, highly disillusioned Selvon who dares look at the present world situation: the emperor has no clothes.
[Review Of] Edward Rivera. Family Installments: Memories Of Growing Up Hispanic, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Edward Rivera. Family Installments: Memories Of Growing Up Hispanic, Luis L. Pinto
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Puerto Ricans have been writing about their experiences in the mainland for a very long time. At the beginning, the majority of the texts were written in Spanish by Puerto Rican writers residing in this country or by Puerto Rican writers who lived here for periods of time. A careful study of the works published about the life of Puerto Ricans in the mainland shows that they were written in prose.
[Review Of] Eddie Iroh. The Siren In The Night, Robbie Jean Walker
[Review Of] Eddie Iroh. The Siren In The Night, Robbie Jean Walker
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The historical novel presents many of the same problems of interpretation posed by the docudrama, both genres possessing an ambiguity attributable to the absence of clearly defined distinctions between fact and fiction. Eddie Iroh, author of The Siren in the Night, obviates the reader's task of inferring these distinctions by announcing in the "Author's Note" the fidelity of his presentation to both the nature and sequence of actual events and admitting the liberty taken in his creation of a military post that did not exist during the time period covered in the novel. The Siren in the Night, the third …
[Review Of] Roberta Hill Whiteman. Star Quilt, Susan Scarberry-Garcia
[Review Of] Roberta Hill Whiteman. Star Quilt, Susan Scarberry-Garcia
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The central image of this collection of Roberta Hill Whiteman's poetry is that of a handmade gift sewn to last for generations. In an interview in Contact II, Whiteman says that a star quilt helps people, perhaps as a protector of a person seeking a vision. The title poem "Star Quilt" sets the tone and themes for the book, introducing the parallelism between makers of quilts and makers of poems.
[Review Of] Henry Greenberg And Georgia Greenberg. Carl Gorman's World, Eugene Grigsby Jr.
[Review Of] Henry Greenberg And Georgia Greenberg. Carl Gorman's World, Eugene Grigsby Jr.
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Henry and Georgia Greenberg weave an interesting fabric with the story of the life of Carl Gorman. The warp threads give insight into the history and background of Navajo culture while the weft threads that move between the warp tell us about Carl Gorman. The events of his life add color and texture to the warp. At times the weave is tight while at others quite loose, sometimes with holes or gaps that seem to contradict. Significant highlights add bright color or rough texture to the life of this man who is artist, educator, soldier, administrator, father, and husband.
[Review Of] John R. Chavez. The Lost Land: The Chicano Image Of The Southwest, Joe Rodriguez
[Review Of] John R. Chavez. The Lost Land: The Chicano Image Of The Southwest, Joe Rodriguez
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The Lost Land is a fine example of ethnic cultural history. Chavez contends that various attitudes of Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo settlers who migrated to the Southwest (the states of California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas) have shaped the sense of identity of contemporary Chicanos in terms of where they live. Many Chicanos feel like " strangers in their own land," and certain features of non-indigenous cultures have fostered a sense of alientation [alienation].
[Review Of] John Tateishi. And Justice For All: An Oral History Of The Japanese American Detention Camps, Russell Endo
[Review Of] John Tateishi. And Justice For All: An Oral History Of The Japanese American Detention Camps, Russell Endo
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In one of the blatant injustices in American history, 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans were evacuated from their homes by military authorities just after the outbreak of World War II and interned in concentration camps. This episode was the culmination of decades of anti-Asian agitation and more immediate pressures by politicians, newspaper editors, farm and labor organizations, nativist groups, and military officials based on false accusations of Japanese American disloyalty and fifth-column activity by Japanese Americans.
[Review Of] Wilbur S. Nye. Plains Indian Raiders, George W. Sieber
[Review Of] Wilbur S. Nye. Plains Indian Raiders, George W. Sieber
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Published in 1968, reprinted in 1974, and a third printing in 1984, this volume contains a collection of 112 superb photographs, mostly by William S. Soule. Born in Maine in 1836, he was wounded in the Civil War and in 1865 entered the photography business, but sold this to become chief clerk in the sutler store operated by John Tappan at Fort Dodge (Kansas), where he resumed his photographic activity during off-duty hours. Soule probably made most of his photographs of Cheyennes and Araphoes [Arapahos] at Fort Dodge, some others at Camp Supply and Fort Sill (Indian Territory). All of …
[Review Of] Carol J. Scott. Kentucky Daughter, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
[Review Of] Carol J. Scott. Kentucky Daughter, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
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Carol Scott sets out in her first novel to cover some interesting territory: ninth-grader Mary Fred, a girl from a poor white family in Kentucky, decides to make something of herself, and so in order to go to a better school, she moves in with an aunt and uncle who live in a Virginia city on the Chesapeake Bay. As she grows and changes, she comes to recognize the value of her country heritage. Along the way she encounters the prejudices of the "in" crowd, the usual pubescent difficulties with boys, and sexual advances from a disturbed teacher.
[Review Of] Glenda Riley. Women And Indians On The Frontier, 1825-1915, Kristin Herzog
[Review Of] Glenda Riley. Women And Indians On The Frontier, 1825-1915, Kristin Herzog
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This book makes a simple, but important, point and proves it on the basis of painstaking research: pioneer women went to the frontier with a mental baggage of myths and prejudices about themselves and Indians, but while living in the West they changed their self-image as well as their image of the natives, establishing close relationships with them more frequently than men.
[Review Of] Michael Soh. Son Of A Mother, Dennis Stewart
[Review Of] Michael Soh. Son Of A Mother, Dennis Stewart
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Three-quarters of this short novel chronicle eldest son Leng' s thoughts, conversations, and actions in endeavoring to fulfill his dying father's charge: "Ah Leng, you're grown up now and I expect you to nurture your character, be a man responsible for bringing up a family of your own. Offspring are very essential to carry down the ancestral line, you know. Of course in so bringing up your own family you must not forget your own parents for they are the ones who brought you up."
[Review Of] Sameer Y. Abraham And Nabeel Abraham, Eds. Arabs In The New World, Akram Khater
[Review Of] Sameer Y. Abraham And Nabeel Abraham, Eds. Arabs In The New World, Akram Khater
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This book is a collection of sociological essays on immigrant Arab communities in the United States. It is divided into three sections: the first provides historical background to the flow of immigrants from Arab countries; the second is devoted to case studies of Arab communities in the Detroit area (where the greatest concentration of Arab-Americans in the United States is located); and the third provides a useful bibliography of current scholarship about Arab-Americans.
[Review Of] Henry H. Pontell. A Capacity To Punish, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] Henry H. Pontell. A Capacity To Punish, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Given the extraordinary costs of prisons, the current political climate which pushes for less government and lowered public spending, and the incapacity of the legal system to carry the entire burden of social control, Pontell argues for reexamination of the criminal justice system from a sociological perspective. Drawing upon data from the 1966-1974 period, Pontell's doctoral study, the basis for the book, searched for ecological relationships among crime rates, expenditures, conviction rates, and demographic features in the California counties under review.
[Review Of] Paula Gunn Allen. The Woman Who Owned The Shadows, Annette Van Dyke
[Review Of] Paula Gunn Allen. The Woman Who Owned The Shadows, Annette Van Dyke
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Paula Gunn Allen's novel, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, is important -- one of few written by an American Indian woman focusing on an Indian woman's life. (Other examples are Sophia Alice Callahan's Wynemia: A Child of the Forest, 1891, and Mourning Dove's Cogewea, the Half Blood, 1927). Allen writes out of her Laguna Pueblo heritage (she says she is Laguna Pueblo/Sioux/Lebanese-American), and gives the reader a view of a contemporary Indian woman's life through her character, Ephanie.
[Review Of] American Indian Culture And Research Journal. Vol. 7, No. 1 (1983), Elmer R. Rusco
[Review Of] American Indian Culture And Research Journal. Vol. 7, No. 1 (1983), Elmer R. Rusco
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Indian water rights is the subject of most of a "Special Water Rights Issue" of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, published by the American Indian Studies Center of the University of California, Los Angeles. The issue provides valuable materials on this issue, although it is marred by frequent typographical errors (e.g., consistently spelling McCarran wrong in the key article).
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives, Carol J. Scott
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives, Carol J. Scott
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American Indians are not conquered. The heart of the American Indian woman is not on the ground. In taking over the control of the telling of her life, she preserves the reality and meaning of tribal history and culture. In asserting the reality of her heritage, she establishes and proclaims a unique identity with which she will shape her furture [future].
[Review Of] Mariama Ba. So Long A Letter, Anne E. Freitas
[Review Of] Mariama Ba. So Long A Letter, Anne E. Freitas
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So Long A Letter is the story of Ramatoulaye, a recently-widowed Sengalese [Senegalese] woman, as she writes to her long-time friend Aissatou. It is the articulate, often anguished narrative of a Muslim woman faced with the sudden second marriage of her husband of twenty-five years. Although polygamy is accepted by her religion and her society, Ramatoulaye feels rejected and betrayed. Yet she chooses to remain in her marriage and prepares to " share equally" her husband with her new co-wife, as dictated by Muslim law. Her husband, however, abandons her completely, to manage their twelve children alone. Upon his death …
[Review Of] R. H. Barnes. Two Crows Denies It: A History Of Controversy In Omaha Sociology, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] R. H. Barnes. Two Crows Denies It: A History Of Controversy In Omaha Sociology, David M. Gradwohl
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The subtitle of this book clearly reflects the scope of work Barnes sets out to accomplish. It also suggests that the study is aimed at a disciplinary readership consisting of anthropologists, sociologists, and some social historians more than an interdisciplinary audience reflected by the membership of the National Association for Ethnic Studies. Specialists in Plains anthropology and world-wide kinship studies will undoubtedly welcome this historical review of the Omaha tribal social system. Non-specialists can glean some insights as well.
[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., And Clifford M. Lytle. The Nations Within: The Past And Future Of American Indian Sovereignty, Lyle Koehler
[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., And Clifford M. Lytle. The Nations Within: The Past And Future Of American Indian Sovereignty, Lyle Koehler
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The relationship between federal policy and Indian needs has been a tortured one, at best, and to illuminate the various dimensions of that relationship is a necessary, but by no means easy, task. Vine Deloria, Jr. , and Clifford M. Lytle have fortunately provided us with a creditable analysis of one aspect of the complex interaction between the concerns of U.S. Officials and those of Indian groups. The authors focus on the idea of self-government, tracing it from the paternalism of nineteenth century reservation procedures through New Deal reformism, termination, and the contemporary emergence of Indian nationalism. They differentiate nationhood …
[Review Of] Betty Sue Cummings. Say These Names (Remember Them), Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Betty Sue Cummings. Say These Names (Remember Them), Gretchen M. Bataille
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The mid-nineteenth century was a time of turmoil for many American Indian tribes, but two groups stand out as vivid examples of attempts by tribes to maintain their place along the eastern seaboard: the Cherokee and the collection of peoples that historians have called the Seminole. Betty Sue Cummings has used historical facts about Seminoles to craft a novel about a Miccosukee Indian woman in Florida who stands as a representative of her people. The novel begins in 1835 and See-ho-kee, onl y a young girl at the beginning of the novel, marries Fixonechee rather than the younger Yaha Chatee …
[Review Of] Gilbert C. Din And Abraham P. Nasatir. The Imperial Osages : Spanish-Indian Diplomacy In The Mississippi Valley, Lyle Koehler
[Review Of] Gilbert C. Din And Abraham P. Nasatir. The Imperial Osages : Spanish-Indian Diplomacy In The Mississippi Valley, Lyle Koehler
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In a sixty-year career Abraham P. Nasatir collected 200,000 sheets of transcripts, photostats, and notes on the Spanish regime in the upper Mississippi Valley. His colleague Gilbert C. Din is also a student of the Spanish-Indian (primarily Osage) relations on the west bank of the Mississippi before 1808. Their study, The Imperial Osages, contains an excellent description of Osage culture (including the important economic role played by women), a fine examination of the impact of U.S. policy on the Osages after the demise of Spanish rule, and a good conclusion, bibliography, and index. However, the remainder of the book consists …
[Review Of] David M. Gradwohl And Nancy M. Osborn. Exploring Buried Buxton, Dennis Stewart
[Review Of] David M. Gradwohl And Nancy M. Osborn. Exploring Buried Buxton, Dennis Stewart
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Readers of Explorations In Sights and Sounds are in for a welcome surprise, especially if they have an occasion to wade through a professional monograph outside their own area of interest or expertise. Exploring Buried Buxton is a rigorous, specialized archaeological monograph that should be read by all who wish to learn of ethnic relations in the United States. It is also readable, comprehensive, interesting, and important. Moreover, Exploring Buried Buxton is significant as the record of a model academic process. As a result of the activities centering on Buxton, Iowa, over the past few years, professors have published, students …
[Review Of] G.M.K. Kpedekpo. Essentials Of Demographic Analysis For Africa, Barbara Entwisle
[Review Of] G.M.K. Kpedekpo. Essentials Of Demographic Analysis For Africa, Barbara Entwisle
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Based on lecture notes used by Kpedekpo at a number of African universities, this textbook for undergraduates provides an introduction to techniques of demographic analysis. Its twelve chapters are broad in coverage and address such topics as sources of population data; rates of fertility, mortality, and population growth; age and sex standardization; life table analysis; marriage and nuptiality; internal and international migration; methods for projecting population size and structure; stable and quasi-stable population theory; and methods for coping with deficient data. Numerous tables, charts, and worked examples help to illustrate demographic principles and techniques. An index is also included.
[Review Of] Ken Levine And Ivory Waterworth Levine. Becoming American, The Oddysey [Odyssey] Of A Refugee Family (Film Or Video), Margaret A. Laughlin
[Review Of] Ken Levine And Ivory Waterworth Levine. Becoming American, The Oddysey [Odyssey] Of A Refugee Family (Film Or Video), Margaret A. Laughlin
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Becoming American is an extraordinary documentary which traces the odyssey of Hang Sou and members of his extended family as they flee the highland hills of war-torn Laos, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand, and eventually resettle in the United States. Sou and his family are preliterate farmers, who served as mercenaries for the CIA's "secret war" in Laos. The Sou family face months of intense culture shock and prejudice after being transported thousands of miles in physical distance from their homeland as they seek to adapt to their new urban and alien environment in Seattle. For the …