Native Voices

Native peoples of North America still face an uncertain future due to their unstable political, legal, and economic positions. Views of their predicament, however, continue to be dominated by non-Indian writers. In response, a dozen Native American writers here reclaim their rightful role as influential "voices" in the debates about Native communities at the dawn of a new millennium. These scholars examine crucial issues of politics, law, and religion in the context of ongoing Native American resistance to the dominant culture. They particularly show how the writings of Vine Deloria, Jr., have shaped and challenged American Indian scholarship in these areas since the 1960s. They provide key insights into Deloria's thought, while introducing some of the critical issues still confronting Native nations today. Collectively, these essays take up four important themes: indigenous societies as the embodiment of cultures of resistance, legal resistance to western oppression against indigenous nations, contemporary Native religious practices, and Native intellectual ch

S. James Anaya (Purepecha/Apache) Ward Churchill (Keetowah Band of Cherokee) Cecil Corbett (Nez Perce) Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) Richard A. Grounds (Yuchi/Seminole) Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) Ines Hernandez-Avila (Nez Perce/Chicana) M. A. Jaimes-Guerrero (Juaneno/Yaqui) Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw/Ojibwe) Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne) John Mohawk (Seneca) Glenn T. Morris (Shawnee) Michelene E. Pesantubbee (Choctaw) Ines Talamantez (Apache/Chicana) George E. Tinker (Osage/Cherokee) David E. Wilkins (Lumbee)