Crooked River

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-78
Author(s):  
Nancy Dallett ◽  
Matthew Guebard
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Bird Watching ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
San Carlos

The story of Tuzigoot National Monument, in Arizona’s Verde Valley, is that of a small town taking pride in its ancestral Native American history, securing funds from a mining company and the federal government to excavate a hilltop ruin associated with local tribes, and developing heritage tourism during the Great Depression. Its development, however, was dependent on military campaigns that drove Yavapai and Apache people on to the San Carlos Reservation. Today, despite evidence of environmental degradation caused by industrial-scale mining and smelting during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, heritage and agritourism brings visitors to the area for wine tasting, bird watching, and kayaking. In an ironic twist, the Yavapai-Apache Nation now litigates to protect the health of the river on behalf of the communities who depend upon it.

scholarly journals Indigenous Heritage Tourism Development in a (Post-)COVID World: Towards Social Justice at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9484
Author(s):  
Jeff Wahl ◽  
Seunghoon Lee ◽  
Tazim Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
Crow Tribe ◽  
Diverse Groups

While a growing body of literature explores tourism impacts in search of sustainable outcomes, research on justice in diverse tourism settings is nascent. Theoretically informed studies drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives are just beginning to emerge to help examine contestations and injustices such as addressed in the case study presented here. The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (or “Custer’s Last Stand” as some know it; LBH) is a protected heritage tourism site that commemorates a battle between Native American tribes and the U.S. military in 1876. Indigenous stakeholders have struggled for decades with the National Park Service to overturn a long legacy of misrepresentation and exclusion from the commemoration and development of the site for heritage tourism. Site closures and other effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic present additional challenges for Native American stakeholders like the Crow Tribe. Guided by Nancy Fraser’s principles of trivalent justice (redistribution, recognition, and representation), this qualitative study traces the conflict over heritage commemoration, and explores the potential for praxis through ethical tourism development and marketing. Fraser’s trivalent approach to justice demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary research to examine historically entrenched discrimination, redress injustices, and facilitate healing and well-being of diverse groups at sites like LBH.

What Does Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Do?

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 542-545
Author(s):  
Jean M. O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Indigenous History ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

scholarly journals Things that time forgot Native American objects in Danish Museums Problems and possibilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Laura Ahlqvist ◽  
Mathias Bjørnevad ◽  
Felix Riede ◽  
Magdalena Naum
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Native American ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Museum History ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
Timely Issue

We present a hitherto unresearched part of a shared Danish and American cultural heritage: Native American objects in Danish regional museum collections. Thus far, we have identified more than 200 Native American artefacts in 27 local museums, largely a result of Danes abroad privately collecting in the late 1800s and 1950s–70s. The majority of these artefacts, many of which are prehistoric in age, have never been displayed and have lingered in storage since they were accessioned, understudied and often unrecognised for what they are. Recent deaccessioning pressures from the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces potentially place these objects at risk of destruction, making the discussions presented here a timely issue. These Native American objects, like the unknown numbers of other non-Danish artefacts held by regional museums, hold tremendous potential to elucidate overlooked parts of Danish museum history, trans-Atlantic networks and interconnectedness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as rich material cultures originating far from Denmark. We argue that this perspective is highly relevant and should be utilised in Danish museums, as it begets reflections on Danish glocal identity and society in a post-colonial world.

scholarly journals American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Harold W. Young ◽  
Christopher Vecsey ◽  
Robert W. Venables
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
American History ◽  
Native American History

scholarly journals Sustainable Heritage Tourism: Native American Preservation Recommendations at Arches, Canyonlands, and Hovenweep National Parks

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 9846
Author(s):  
Richard Stoffle ◽  
Octavius Seowtewa ◽  
Cameron Kays ◽  
Kathleen Van Vlack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Park Service

The sustainable use of Native American heritage places is viewed in this analysis as serving to preserve their traditional purposes and sustaining the cultural landscapes that give them heritage meaning. The research concerns the potential impacts of heritage tourism to selected Native American places at Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Hovenweep National Monument. The impacts of tourists on a heritage place must be understood as having both potential effects on the place itself and on an integrated cultural landscape. Impacts to one place potentially change other places. Their functions in a Native American landscape, and the integrity of the landscape itself. The analysis is based on 696 interviews with representatives from nine tribes and pueblos, who, in addition to defining the cultural meaning of places, officially made 349 heritage management recommendations. The U.S. National Park Service interprets Natives American resources and then brings millions of tourists to these through museums, brochures, outdoor displays, and ranger-guided tours. Native American ethnographic study participants argued that tourist education and regulation can increase the sustainability of Native American places in a park and can help protect related places beyond the park.

History, Postmodernism, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks

PMLA ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 109 (5) ◽  
pp. 982-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American History ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Native American History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Historical Accounts

The deconstruction of history by poststructuralists and some philosophers of history has occurred at the moment when women and indigenous peoples have begun to write their own historical accounts. Louise Erdrich's historical novel, Tracks, brings into focus the necessity and the difficulties of writing Native American history in a postmodern epoch. The novel addresses two crucial issues: the referential value of history (If it is impossible to know the past fully, is it impossible to know the past at all?) and the status of history as narrative (If history is just a story, how is it possible to discriminate between one story and another?). Erdrich's novel suggests the need for indigenous histories to counter the dominant narrative, in which the settling of America is “progress,” but also works toward a new historicity that is neither a simple return to historical realism nor a passive acceptance of postmodern historical fictionality.

Continuing the Intervention: Past, Present, and Future Pathways for Native Studies and Early American History

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 528-532
Author(s):  
Christine M. DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American History ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Native Studies ◽  
Early American History ◽  
Early American ◽  
History Of

Abstract David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and perils of community-engaged history scholarship. Four scholars of Native American history, including DeLucia, respond, defending new approaches to Indigenous history represented by these recent works.

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