American Indians, World Markets: The Evolution of a Career

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Author(s):  
Gordon Bronitsky
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Full Range ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

Somewhat to my surprise, I've become a social and applied anthropologist. Certainly, I received a firm grounding in the hallowed fourfield approach both as an undergraduate and a graduate student, but I always supposed that the "lesser three fields" would merely serve as adjuncts to my career as an academic archeologist, useful mainly for teaching yet another generation of undergraduates the importance of eating mongongo nuts among the Bushmen. I began with an interest in Southwest anthropology and archeology and received a B.A. from the University of New Mexico and a doctorate from the University of Arizona. Yet even then I was interested in the full range of Indian America, contemporary as well as historic and prehistoric. Now I am founder and president of Bronitsky and Associates, a firm with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Bergamo, Italy, which works with American Indian individuals, communities and organizations throughout the United States (including Alaska) and Canada to bring to the world the best that Indian America has to offer. Over the last few years, among other accomplishments, we've toured a Comanche fluteplayer to Ireland, set up a one-man show for a hot glass artist from Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, at the National Glass Museum in Finland, and gotten a Navajo writer published in Ireland—in Navajo, English, and Irish. How I got here from where I started—well, thereby hangs a tale.

Simon Ortiz

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Archuleta
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Indian School ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Simon Joseph Ortiz was born in 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised at Acoma Pueblo. He has spent much of his life traveling, witnessing, and writing about the world around him. His observations about and his place in the world as an indigenous person would shape his writing on language, education, colonization, and the effects of colonization on indigenous peoples worldwide. While attending a Bureau of Indian Affairs day school, he learned English as a second language and would later focus on the way language shaped his worldview. Later, he attended several educational institutions, including Saint Catherine’s Indian School in Santa Fe, Albuquerque Indian School, Fort Lewis College (1962–1963), the University of New Mexico (1966–1968), and the University of Iowa (1968–1969). These institutions informed his views on the legacies of boarding school and how they affected generations of indigenous peoples. Having served three years in the army (1963–1966) and holding several teaching positions—San Diego State (1974), the Institute of American Indian Arts (1974), Navajo Community College (1975–1977), the College of Marin (1976–1979), the University of New Mexico, Sinte Gleska College, the University of Toronto, and Arizona State University, where he retired as a Regents’ Professor of English and American Indian Studies—Ortiz’s perspectives expanded beyond New Mexico and the Southwest. His thoughts on traveling, shaped by Pueblo cosmology, and his chance encounters with American Indians focused his attention on indigenous peoples’ persistence despite centuries of colonization. His growing global perspective as well as events connected to the Red Power movement and his involvement in the National Indian Youth Council also influenced his writing. The death of Navajo activist Larry Casuse in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1973 at the hands of the police undoubtedly moved Ortiz to write some of his most powerful and influential work, and issues that fueled indigenous activism nationally and globally are interwoven throughout his writing. Racism, poverty, the exploitation of indigenous lands and peoples, and tribal sovereignty appear prominently in his work, but woven into these legacies of colonization are also stories of survival. His children’s books carry messages of hope, because indigenous peoples’ ultimate survival lay in the hands of children. As a whole, Ortiz’s work presents a message of hope, triumph, and survival in spite of more than five hundred years of attempts to mold American Indians into US citizens. Ultimately, his work exemplifies political and cultural resurgence, documenting indigenous peoples’ survival, as stated in his poem “Survival This Way.”

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
J. Wade Caruthers ◽  
Steven Philip Kramer ◽  
Mary Quinlivan ◽  
Philip Reed Rulon ◽  
James L. Forsythe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
World War I ◽  
American History ◽  
Junior College ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
State College ◽  
The University

Kenneth G. Goode. From Africa to the United States and Then... A Concise Afro-American History. Second Edition. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1976. Pp. 192. $2.95. Leslie H. Fishel, Jr., and Benjamin Quarles, eds. The Black American: A Documentary History. Third Edition. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1976. Pp. xvii, 624. $8.50. Review by Al-Tony Gilmore of the University of Maryland, College Park. John B. Duff and Larry A. Greene, eds. Slavery: Its Origin and Legacy. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp . IX, 143. $3.75. Review by Gossie Harold Hudson of Lincoln University. Michael Les Benedict. The Fruits of Victory: Alternatives in Restoring the Union, 1865-1877. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975. Pp. 154. $3.25. Review by Robert W. Dubay of Bainbridge Junior College. John Shelton Reed. The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1974. Pp. xxi, 131. $4.95. Review by Monroe Billington of the New Mexico State University. Wilcomb E. Washburn. The Assault on Indian Tribalism: The General Allotment Law (Dawes Act) of 1887. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975 . Pp. viii, 79. $3.75. Review by Richard N. Ellis of the University of New Mexico. Paul A. Carter. The Twenties in America. Second Edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp. ix, 131. $3.50; Paul K. Conkin. The New Deal. Second Edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp. xi , 114. $3.50. Review by James L. Forsythe of Fort Hays Kansas State College. Warren A. Beck and Myles L. Clowers, eds. Understanding American History Through Fiction. 2 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Pp. x, 200; x, 210. $4.95 per vol. Review by Philip Reed Rulon of Northern Arizona University. (Missing) Lafore, The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I. Review by James A. Zabel. (Missing) Cassels, Fascism. Review by Bullitt Lowry. (Pages 76-77 Missing) Buxton and Prichard, editors, Excellence in University Teaching: New Essays. Review by Mary Quinlivan of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Paul Smith, ed. The Historian and Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii, 208. Review by Steve Philip Kramer of the University of New Mexico. Jackdaws: Mini-Courses in History. New York: Grossman, 1975. Review by J. Wade Caruthers of Southern Connecticut State College.

scholarly journals A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR LAVINEL G. IONESCU ON HIS 55th BIRTHDAY

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
A. D. Martinez ◽  
B. J. Kid
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Radioactive Isotopes ◽  
State University ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
New Mexico State University ◽  
Science Degree ◽  
The University

Professor Lavinel G. Ionescu was born of Romanian parents in Varset (Vrsac), Banat, Yugoslavia, on May l9, 1943. He attended primary and secondary school in Yugoslavia, Italy, and Switzerland. He obtained the Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry in l963 and the Master of Science Degree in l966 from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, and the Ph.D. Degree in Physical Chemistry from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA in l970. He did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has held faculty positions at universities in the United States and Brazil. At the present, he is Professor of Chemistry at the Pontifícia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre and the Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, RS, Brazil. His research work includes liquid scintillators, radioactive isotopes, noble gases, solution thermodynamics, surfactants and micelles, micellar catalysis, respiratory pigments, membrane models, and history and philosophy of science. He has trained more than fifty research scientists from different parts of the world, is the author of more than two hundred and fifty scientific works, and has been the recipient of many prizes and awards.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-96
Author(s):  
Larry Madaras ◽  
Richard A. Diem ◽  
Kenneth G. Alfers ◽  
Elizabeth J. Wilcoxson ◽  
Victoria L. Enders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community College ◽  
New York ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
The University

Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr., Central America: A Nation Divided. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 390. Cloth, $22.50; Paper $8.95. Second Edition. Review by Donald J. Mabry of Mississippi State University. Edward M. Anson. A Civilization Primer. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. Pp. 121. Spiral bound, $5.95. Review by Gordon R. Mork of Purdue University. Stephen J. Lee. Aspects of European History, 1494-1789. Second edition. London & New York: Methuen, 1984. Pp. viii, 312. Paper, $11.95. Review by Michael W. Howell of The School of the Ozarks. Roland N. Stromberg. European Intellectual History Since 1789. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986. Fourth edition. Pp. x, 340. Paper, $18.95. Review by Irby C. Nichols, Jr. of North Texas State University. R. W. Southern. Medieval Humanism and Other Studies. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. 261. Cloth, $24.95; Paper, $10.95. Review by Benjamin F. Taggie of Central Michigan University. H. T. Dickinson. British Radicalism and the French Revolution, 1789-1815. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. 88. Paper, $6.95; F. D. Dow. Radicalism in the English Revolution, 1640-1660. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. 90. Paper, $6.95. Review by Harry E. Wade of East Texas State University. H. R. Kedward. Occupied France: Collaboration and Resistance 1940-1944. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. 88. $6.95; M. E. Chamberlain. Decolonization: The Fall of the European Empire. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. 86. $6.95. Review by Steven Philip Kramer of the University of New Mexico. Harriet Ward. World Powers in the Twentieth Century. London: British Broadcasting Corporation and the Heinemann Educational Books, 1985. Second edition. Pp. xvii, 333. Paper, $12.00. Review by Gerald H. Davis of Georgia State University. Paul Preston, ed. Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939. London and New York: Methuen, 1984. Pp. xi, 299. Cloth, $29.95: Paper, $12.95. Review by Robert Kern of the University of New Mexico. Glenn Blackburn. The West and the World Since 1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. vi, 152. Paper, $9.95. Review by Victoria L. Enders of Northern Arizona University. M. K. Dziewanowski. A History of Soviet Russia. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. Second edition. Pp. x, 406. Paper, $22.95. Review by Elizabeth J. Wilcoxson of Northern Essex Community College. Peter L. Steinberg. The Great "Red Menace": United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947-1952. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 311. Cloth, $35.00. Review by Kenneth G. Alfers of Mountain View College. Winthrop D. Jordan, Leon F. Litwack, Richard Hoftstadter, William Miller, Daniel Aaron. The United States: Brief Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. Second Edition. Pp. xiv, 513. Paper, $19.95. Review by Richard A. Diem of The University of Texas at San Antonio. Edwin J. Perkins and Gary M. Walton. A Prosperous People: The Growth of the American Economy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. Pp. xiii, 240. Paper, $14.95. Review by Larry Madaras of Howard Community College.

Guns, Alcohol, and Intimate Partner Violence: The Epidemiology of Female Suicide in New Mexico

Crisis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenora Olson ◽  
Frank Huyler ◽  
Arthur W Lynch ◽  
Lynne Fullerton ◽  
Deborah Werenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Injury Death ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Blood Alcohol Levels ◽  
Associated Risk Factors

Suicide is among the leading causes of death in the United States, and in women the second leading cause of injury death overall. Previous studies have suggested links between intimate partner violence and suicide in women. We examined female suicide deaths to identify and describe associated risk factors. We reviewed all reports from the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator for female suicide deaths occurring in New Mexico from 1990 to 1994. Information abstracted included demographics, mechanism of death, presence of alcohol/drugs, clinical depression, intimate partner violence, health problems, and other variables. Annual rates were calculated based on the 1990 census. The New Mexico female suicide death rate was 8.2/100,000 persons per year (n = 313), nearly twice the U. S. rate of 4.5/100,000. Non-Hispanic whites were overrepresented compared to Hispanics and American Indians. Decedents ranged in age from 14 to 93 years (median = 43 years). Firearms accounted for 45.7% of the suicide deaths, followed by ingested poisons (29.1%), hanging (10.5%), other (7.7%), and inhaled poisons (7.0%). Intimate partner violence was documented in 5.1% of female suicide deaths; in an additional 22.1% of cases, a male intimate partner fought with or separated from the decedent immediately preceding the suicide. Nearly two-thirds (65.5%) of the decedents had alcohol or drugs present in their blood at autopsy. Among decedents who had alcohol present (34.5%), blood alcohol levels were far higher among American Indians compared to Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites (p = .01). Interpersonal conflict was documented in over 25% of cases, indicating that studies of the mortality of intimate partner violence should include victims of both suicide and homicide deaths to fully characterize the mortality patterns of intimate partner violence.

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