Paul V. KROSKRITY (éd.) Telling Stories in the Face of Danger: Language Renewal in Native American Communities University of Oklahoma Press, 2012, 269 pages Compte rendu de James Costa (ICAR / Institut français de l’éducation, ENS de Lyon)

2013 ◽  
Vol N° 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 136a-139
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Compte Rendu ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
The Face ◽  
Language Renewal

We Are Men and Braves

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Cutrer
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Western Frontier ◽  
Santa Fe Trail ◽  
The Face

Deals with the Union’s attempt, during a greater civil war in the East, to retain control of the Western frontier and, in particular, the Santa Fe Trail and other routes to California, in the face of Native American—particularly Apache and Navajo—resistance.

scholarly journals African and Native American foodways and resilience: From 1619 to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Lindsey Lunsford ◽  
Melvin Arthur ◽  
Christine Porter
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Food System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
The People ◽  
United States Food ◽  
The Face ◽  
Auto Ethnography

The COVID-19 pandemic is flooding and splitting “efficiency” fault lines in today’s industrialized food system. It also exploits centuries of historical traumas, White supremacy, and systemic racism to kill non-White people at triple the rates of Whites. In 1619, an English ship landed on the shores of the Powhatan confederacy, or, as the English called it, Point Comfort, Virginia. The ship delivered stolen people onto stolen land. This was a first step in founding today’s U.S. food system. Until that time, the people of North America and West Africa had lived off the land for millennia, foraging, hunting, and cultivating food. But 400 years ago, the twin European colonial influences of invasion and enslavement entwined the lives and, to some extent, the foodways of Native Americans and West Africans in what is now the U.S. Yet, these communities are still resilient. This paper offers re-stories about how African Ameri­can and Native American communities have adapted and maintained foodways to survive, thrive and renew, from 1619 to COVID-19. Methods include historical and literature reviews, interviews, and brief auto-ethnography. Even in the face of a pandemic, Native Ameri­can and African American communities still lever­age their foodways to survive and thrive. Some of these food system strategies also illustrate shifts that could be made in the United States food system to help everyone thrive.

The futures of ‘us’: A critical phenomenology of the aporias of ethical community in the Anthropocene

2020 ◽  
pp. 019145372091651
Author(s):  
Rasmus Dyring
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Theories ◽  
The Face ◽  
Critical Phenomenology ◽  
Aristotle's Ethics ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
American Nation

In this essay, I undertake a critical phenomenological exposition of the conditions of ethical community as they present themselves in the light of the Anthropocene. I begin by approaching the present human condition by following Arendt in her considerations of what more recently has been termed the Anthropocene. I will take her notion of the process character of action as a lodestar in a so-called anarcheological reading of Aristotle that opens for a thinking of unbounded possibility and unbounded affinity and that shows how Aristotle’s ethics, like so many other ethical and moral theories, is really a project of metaphysical closure in the face of the poignantly sensed, but theoretically marginalized, anarchic apertures of communitary life. To prepare for an ethics capable of perpetually affirming, rather than closing off, these anarchic apertures of the human condition, I bring the insights won in the anarcheological reading of Aristotle into conversation with accounts of the ethical responses presented by the Native American nation of the Crow towards the end of the 19th century, when they – in a sense not-dissimilar to what we now experience in the Anthropocene – faced the end of the world. I conclude by extracting from this some elements for a thinking of ethics at the end of worlds that affirms the unbounded apertures of human community.

The Last Drops

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard G. Wilshire ◽  
Richard W. Hazlett ◽  
Jane E. Nielson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Groundwater Basins

The western United States has low overall rainfall and snowfall levels, few rivers, and many deep groundwater basins. Small Native American populations once lived within the restraints of aridity by seeking harmony with nature. But owning land in such an arid region means little or nothing without a supply of fresh water. Instead of limiting population growth in the face of scarce and unpredictable rainfall, however, the west’s aridity challenged the newcomers to redirect water supplies and make the rich desert soils bloom. The region’s localized precipitation, generally doled out on boom-and-bust schedules, has made water “the most essential and fought over resource in the western United States.” Raising a lone voice of warning in 1893, western explorer John Wesley Powell foresaw that irrigating western lands would pile up “a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land.”2 That Powell was right about conflicts goes without saying, for the west’s bitter heritage of water wars speaks for itself.3 Invading Americans used legal doctrines of first appropriation and “beneficial use” to take water from Indians’ lands and then turned to taking it from each other, oblivious to the effects on wildlife and natural habitats. Today’s depleted river flows and overpumped groundwater basins indicate that Powell probably was right about water supply limits, too. Expanding populations and increasing water contamination have strained supplies of fresh, clean water, even as per capita water demands decrease. By the 1970s, degraded natural settings, rising water pollution, and disappearing native fauna had lowered the quality of western life and built a constituency for environmental protection. But the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act and 1973 Endangered Species Act simply pitted environmental groups and courts against irrigators, cities, and states. In an ironic reversal, recently enriched Native Americans are poised to exercise their primary legal claims to many western rivers.

These People Have Always Been a Republic

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice S. Crandall
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Economic

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall’s sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power.  Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern Arizona, and Tohono O'odhams and Yaquis in Arizona/Sonora--Crandall reveals the ways Indigenous peoples absorbed and adapted colonially imposed forms of politics to exercise sovereignty based on localized political, economic, and social needs. Using sources that include oral histories and multinational archives, this book allows us to compare Spanish, Mexican, and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, and adds to our understanding of the centuries-long struggle of Indigenous groups to assert their sovereignty in the face of settler colonial rule.

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