Joseph Johnson's Lost Gamuts: Native Hymnody, Materials of Exchange, and the Colonialist Archive

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-507
Author(s):  
GLENDA GOODMAN
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Native Community ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Land Transfer ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn the winter of 1772–1773, Joseph Johnson (Mohegan/Brothertown) copied musical notation into eight books for Christian Native Americans in Farmington, Connecticut, a town established by English settler colonists on the land known as Tunxis Sepus. Johnson did so because, as he wrote in his diary, “The indians are all desireous of haveing Gamuts.” Johnson's “gamuts” have not survived, but their erstwhile existence reveals hymnody's important role within the Native community in Farmington as well as cross-culturally with the English settler colonists. In order to reconstruct the missing music books and assess their sociocultural significance, this article proposes a surrogate bibliography, gathering a constellation of sources among which Johnson's books would have circulated and gained meaning for Native American Christians and English colonists (including other printed and manuscript music, wampum, and legal documents pertaining to land transfer). By bringing together this multi-modal network of materials, this essay seeks to redress the material and epistemological effects of a colonialist archive. On one level, this is a case study that focuses on a short period of time in order to document the impact on sacred music of conversion, literacy, shifting intercultural relations, and a drive to preserve sovereignty. On another, this article presents a methodological intervention for dealing with lost materials and colonialist archives without recourse to discourses of recovery or discovery, the latter of which is considered through the framework of what I term “archival orientalism.”

Prejudicial reactions to the removal of Native American mascots

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843022110408
Author(s):  
Tyler Jimenez ◽  
Jamie Arndt ◽  
Peter J. Helm
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Location Study ◽  
Chief Illiniwek ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Chief Wahoo

As Native American mascots are discontinued, research is needed to understand the impact on intergroup relations. Such discontinuations may be threatening to some and increase prejudice against Native Americans. In Study 1 ( N = 389), exposure to information about a Native American mascot removal increased punitive judgments against a Native American in a hypothetical legal scenario, particularly among those high in racial colorblindness and those residing in the implicated geographical location. Study 2 ( N = 358,644) conceptually replicated and extended these findings, using population-level implicit bias data to perform a natural quasi-experiment. Prejudice against Native Americans increased in the year following the removal of two Native American mascots: “Chief Illiniwek” and “Chief Wahoo.” However, in the case of Chief Illiniwek, the effect diminished after 6 years. Together, the studies contribute to understanding the psychological impact of Native American mascots, offering a first look at how their removal influence intergroup relations.

The Women of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Claradina Soto ◽  
Toni Handboy ◽  
Ruth Supranovich ◽  
Eugenia L. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cheyenne River

This chapter describes the impact of colonialism on indigenous women with a focus on the experience of the Lakota women on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota. It explores the experiences of indigenous women as related to history, culture, intrapersonal violence, and internalized oppression. A case study of a Lakota woman is provided as an example of strength and triumph in overcoming adversity and being empowered despite the challenges of marginalization faced by many Native Americans in the United States and indigenous women throughout the world. The chapter discusses how readers can be advocates and actively engage in decolonizing and dismantling systems of oppression to protect future generations and to allow indigenous communities to heal and revitalize.

The Impact of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) on University and Professional School Admissions and the Implications for the California Economy

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia A. Conrad ◽  
Rhonda V. Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Professional School ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
The Impact

Using data from the University of California and results from previously published research on the returns to higher education, this article presents a preliminary evaluation of the impact of ending affirmative action in admissions at a large, publicly funded university. At the undergraduate level, eliminating race as a factor in the admissions process will redistribute African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans away from the most competitive campuses (UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UC-San Diego) towards the less competitive campuses in the California State University system. This redistribution will lower the returns to schooling for those affected groups and could have a negative impact on the educational environment for all students. Affirmative action will, in the short run, reduce the number of African American, Mexican American, and Native American students admitted and, in the long run, will have an adverse effect on the delivery of legal and health care services to those racial and ethnic groups.

scholarly journals Resuming Gynocratic Principles: Cultural Reterritorialization of Native Traditions in Linda Hogan’s Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Xiaofang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
White Male ◽  
Cultural Assimilation ◽  
Linda Hogan ◽  
Native Community ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Early Colonial

Native Americans’ cultural system has been utterly undermined in the early colonial conquest and the later neo-colonial expansion. Cultural annihilation is primarily caused by the forced cultural assimilation, especially by the white government’s practice of eradicating native traditions and beliefs. To rebuild the native culture system, Native American writer Linda Hogan attempts to employ the pre-colonial gynocratic principles in her literary creation, thus reterritorializing their cultural identity among the modern natives. This paper reveals how Hogan effectively resumes the ancient gynocratic principles by portraying a series of typical female images in the woman-centered native community, with an aim to fight against cultural assimilation guided by the white male-dominated western metaphysical epistemology.

scholarly journals Case Study on the Community Resilience Within Title VI Programs During COVID-19: A Qualitative Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 466-466
Author(s):  
Abigail Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Staff Burnout ◽  
Title Vi ◽  
Network Organizations ◽  
Delivery Options ◽  
Aging Network ◽  
Poor Infrastructure ◽  
American Aging

Abstract Health inequalities increased for Native Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic due to poor infrastructure, lack of electricity, health disparities, limited transportation, and rural location (Yellow Horse, 2021). Title VI programs-- aging network organizations that serve tribal elders--had to be resourceful to meet increased needs and restrictions on service delivery options. Qualitative data from the national 2020 Title VI Native American Aging Programs Survey illustrated the challenges faced and the resiliency of these organizations and their communities. Two rounds of thematic coding of 479 open-ended responses to the survey revealed that communication across organizations, a sense of shared mission, and sharing of resources allowed these agencies to provide more services in innovative ways. Challenges included limited funding, regulatory barriers, and staff burnout. A video presentation by a Title VI program director will provide context for the results of the survey.

scholarly journals Finding the Positive in the Negative

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya M. Peres ◽  
Aaron Deter-Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Site Management ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Severe Erosion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recent Attention ◽  
Systematic Collection

ABSTRACTThe impact of natural disasters and climate change on archaeological resources has garnered much recent attention, with impacts of sea level rise and coastal flooding being the two most often cited issues. However, damage caused by flooding of interior areas and waterways has received less consideration. In this article, we present a case study of a collaborative emergency response to a significant weather event and the ensuing impacts on archaeological resources. Our project, located in Middle Tennessee, documented severe erosion and subsequent anthropogenic disturbances to ancient Native American sites following massive flooding of the Cumberland River in 2010. While striving to mitigate this damage via systematic collection of imperiled archaeological samples, we were also able to strengthen partnerships among professional archaeologists working in different arenas (academia, state and federal agencies) and the avocational archaeological community. As these types of weather-related events become more common, published case studies of response efforts will be crucial in archaeological site management, planning, and disaster response.

scholarly journals Affect Of External Factors And Non-Native Community In Children’s Personality And Its Impact In Second Language Acquisition

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Feruza Tulibayevna Jumaniyozova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Native Community ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Changing Schools ◽  
The Impact

The research presented in this article is about the challenges young learners may face when they are exposed to non-native communities, and introversion which stems from these kinds of situations. This paper focuses on three different problems: (1) the effect of external factors and non-native community in a child's personality: (2) the impact of changing schools with different medium instructions frequently (3) the effect of introversion on the children’s Second Language Acquisition. This case study is based on three research tools, such as an interview, lesson observation, personality test to affirm the feeling the subject underwent because of the mobile lifestyle of his parents.

Gi-gikinomaage-min (we are all teachers): using history to give voice to urban native American communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Shell-Weiss ◽  
Belinda Bardwell
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Grand Rapids ◽  
The Impact

This article explores one developing model for framing ethical, mutually beneficial collaborations between a predominantly White, non-tribal serving university and urban Native American communities. Called Gi-gikinomaage-min (We are all teachers): Defend our History, Unlock Your Spirit, this oral history documentation initiative is informed by the developing literature on best practices for archiving Native American resources as well as by revolutionary critical pedagogy. Focusing on the impact of federal Urban Relocation Programs, the project is the first collaborative effort to focus on documenting experiences of Native Americans in the Grand Rapids, Michigan metropolitan area to create a publicly accessible archive of material that can be used for teaching, research, and other educational purposes. By reflecting on the work of this project to date, we aim for these efforts to become part of the larger, international conversation.

scholarly journals Investigating the impact of CO2 emission and economic factors on infants health: a case study for Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (01) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
MUHAMMAD ZAHID NAEEM ◽  
SUMERA ARSHAD ◽  
RAMONA BIRAU ◽  
CRISTI SPULBAR ◽  
ABDULLAH EJAZ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Apparel Manufacturing ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Impact

This study has attempted to investigate the consequences of CO2 emissions on infants’ health in Pakistan over the period of 1975 to 2013. Several economic factors have been employed in our analysis and the estimates show insignificant impact of CO2 emissions in affecting children mortality. Increasing health facilities lowers children mortality over a short period were also observed but the relationship inversed in the long-run. In short-run, urbanization appeared as a decreasing factor to children mortality. While income inequality remains inversely related with children mortality. Both poverty and fertility are found enhancing factors to children deaths. The poor sector of the economy seemed to observe higher children mortality due to inadequate health facilities and low standards of living. Overall, we have observed greater impact of economic factors in explaining children mortality than CO2 emissions in case of Pakistan. These issues have a significant impact on the representative industries in Pakistan, such as the cotton textile and traditional clothing industry (apparel manufacturing).

scholarly journals Native American youth and justice

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Dr.Sc. Laurence A. French ◽  
Dr.Sc. Haris Halilović ◽  
Dr.Sc. Goran Kovačević
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
American Indians ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Information ◽  
Native American Youth ◽  
Navajo Nation ◽  
Federal Policies

Youth and delinquency issues have long been problematic among Native Americans groups both on- and off-reservation. This phenomenon is further complicated by the cultural diversity among American Indians and Alaska Natives scattered across the United States. In address these issues, the paper begins with a historical overview of Native American youth.This history presents the long tradition of federal policies that, how well intended, have resulted in discriminatory practices with the most damages attacks being those directed toward the destruction of viable cultural attributes – the same attributes that make Native Americans unique within United States society.Following the historical material, the authors contrast the pervasive Native American aboriginal ethos of harmony with that of Protestant Ethic that dominates the ethos of the larger United States society. In addition to providing general information on Native American crime and delinquency, the paper also provides a case study of Native American justice within the Navajo Nation, the largest tribe, in both size and population, in the United States. The paper concludes with a discussion of issues specific to Native American youth and efforts to address these problems.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document