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Studies in American Indian Literatures
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ISSN (Print) 0730-3238 - ISSN (Online) 1548-9590
Published by U of Nebraska

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  Abstract: Han mitakuyepi, Greetings my relatives,As we all reemerge and re-envision our lives in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, SAIL is finding its footing anew and enjoying a gradual uptick in submissions for our publication. This issue highlights work that came to the press during the pandemic. For these authors the process of review and revision took longer than usual, but each was able to engage deeply and thoughtfully in preparing the work that you will read here.Lloyd Sy’s “The Hermeneutics of Starvation: Fish in James Welch’s Winter in the Blood” traces various forms of lack in Welch’s novel’s depiction of scarcity. This essay argues that the dearth of fish within a Blackfeet/Gros Ventre diet pushes characters to ... Read More
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The Hermeneutics of Starvation: Alienation, Reading, and Fish in James
Welch’s Winter in the Blood
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  Abstract: Near the end of James Welch’s Winter in the Blood (1974), the Gros Ventre elder Yellow Calf muses on a harrowing winter decades earlier. During that season, the Blackfeet chief Standing Bear died during a period of conflict with the American military. Pursued by the army, the tribes were forced to move around their homelands, surrounding what would later become the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Cold and bereft of nourishment, the Blackfeet and Gros Ventre died in large numbers. But Yellow Calf ’s depiction of the winter of starvation contains a surprising evaluation of the tribes’ dire status and their handling of it: “You must understand how people think in desperate times. When their bellies are full, they ... Read More
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The Suspense Novel as Persuasion: Survivance and Subversion in Louise
Erdrich’s The Round House
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  Abstract: There was a state trooper, an officer local to the town of Hoopdance, and Vince Madwsin, from the tribal police. My father had insisted that they each take a statement from my mother because it wasn’t clear where the crime had been committed— on state or tribal land— or who had committed it— an Indian or a non-IndianThis excerpt from Louise Erdrich’s (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) novel, The Round House (2012), exemplifies the jurisdictional maze the characters face in Indian country and how they must negotiate the colliding cultures and laws of their Native and non-Native worlds. The novel tells the story of Joe Coutts, a thirteen-year-old boy living with his family on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota in 1988. ... Read More
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Snake Eyes: Linda Hogan’s Monumental Serpentine Embodiment of Justice in
“The Snake People”
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  Abstract: The elegant essay “The Snake People”1 by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) contains innumerable references to snakes, pointing to the reptile’s exquisite beauty, to its remarkable qualities, and to its representations throughout history. Seemingly parenthetically Hogan refers to an earth monument in the form of a snake, over 1,200 feet long, the largest effigy mound in the world, and built by American Indians in what is now Ohio. While it appears that the reference to the earthen effigy might be merely one more citation of a snake image, the Serpent Mound can be considered something far more significant. The richly textured “Snake People” itself becomes a literary earthwork, structurally similar to the Indian Serpent Mound. ... Read More
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Locating Sacajawea
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  Abstract: How is it possible to rethink a subject who is at once overburdened with representations and invisible' Is it possible to rewrite a subject who is already so overproduced'Sacajawea’s story has been told in many forms.1 She is a central character in the US celebration of westward expansion, a Native heroine whose fame as trail blazer, translator, and unofficial ambassador in Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery (1804–1806) far exceeds known biographical fact. Exemplifying her thorough incorporation into the triumphal story of US settlement, the North Dakota state legislature explains their gift of a Sacajawea statue to the National Statuary Hall collection: we “honor her as a ‘traveler and guide, a translator, a ... Read More
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“As Long as it Gets Read”: The Lakota As-Told-To Genre, Authenticity,
and Mediated Authorship in Mary Brave Bird’s Lakota Woman and Ohitika
Woman
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  Abstract: In this essay, I consider Mary Brave Bird’s as-told-to texts Lakota Woman (1990) and Ohitika Woman (1993) and the controversy surrounding them in the contexts of authenticity and Lakota resistance literature. Both of Brave Bird’s books were co-authored with (and by some accounts, ghost written by) Richard Erdoes. The Lakota as-told-to genre, of which Black Elk Speaks (1932) is the most widely known, reached full flower in the 1990s as American Indian Movement (AIM) activists decided to share their stories with the world. Nearly two decades after the AIM standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973, Brave Bird’s books appeared, followed by Crow Dog (1995), a collaboration between Erdoes and her former husband Leonard Crow Dog ... Read More
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Five Poems
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  Abstract: Previously published in In Other Words: Poems by Wisconsin Poets in English and Chinese Previously published in The Poets’ Republic (Scotland) Soft pampas grass. We bed down like deer, rest after the dying. Spirits all walk towards horizon. Transform against the evening chrysalis of sky.You feed me your dark-eyed loneliness, wisdom from Dr. Fauci, and sectors of tangerine small as my thumb. Scent the air. Everything is shrunken or overblown now.I am undressing. Blue jeans, flannel. My polished toes naked in the damp tickling fronds. The bottom of my feet tender as story.Soon we are turning to B & W. 100 years ago. Just before Betty White was born. Just before that other dying time. Those epidemic faces— framed like ... Read More
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Four Poems
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  Abstract: Previously published in Narrative Magazine Previously published in Alphabeast: a book of poems. Previously published in Bellingham Review ... Read More
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The Intellectual Evolution of Sherman Coolidge, Red Progressivism’s
Neglected Voice
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  Abstract: In a 2013 combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly titled The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies, a host of noted scholars reflected on the intertribal Native rights organizing of the early twentieth century and the reformers known today as the Red Progressives. This collective act of recognition for the Society of American Indians (SAI) can be seen as an expression of growing sympathy for a generation of activists once derogatorily characterized as “assimilationist” in the 1990s.1 Cristina Stanciu and Kristina Ackley offered essays on the Wisconsin Oneida organizer Laura Cornelius Kellogg and her designs for tribal sovereignty, while Julianne Newmark and ... Read More
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