An article, taken from a keynote address at the opening of an exhibition on Indian education at Hampton Institute, which suggests the lessons learned for the present from an examination of a particular moment in the historical past.
Publications
The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.
"On Looking in the Mirror of An Institution,"
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy Newsletter; reprinted in Northeast Indian Quarterly, Summer, 1990; The Graduate Quill, SUNY/Buffalo, April, 1991.
"The Only Good Indian: Images of the American Indian in American Vernacular Culture,"
PhD Dissertation, Indiana University, 1973.
A dissertation on images and representations of American Indians in American culture, with an emphasis on visual and material representations and on oral tradition taken from collections at the Smithsonian Institution.
"Down Home In the City: A Store-Bought Remembrance."
Wine, Food and the Arts, II: Works Gathered By the American Institute of Wine and Food. San Francisco: AIWF and Swan’s Island Books, 1997.
An essay on food and memory.
"The Beaded Adidas,"
in Charles Camp, ed. Time and Temperature: A Centennial Retrospective. Washington, DC: American Folklore Society, 1989: 66–67; reprinted in The Messenger (Wheelwright Museum Newsletter), 1989; The Runner (Smithsonian American Indian Newsletter); 1990.
A piece which examines a modern American Indian object–a pair of beaded running shoes–and comments on scholarly resistance to changing forms in American Indian expressive culture.
"Research in the Nation's Junkpile: Folklore Research in the Smithsonian Institution."
Folklore Forum 5, no. 1(January, 1972).
An article, based on dissertation research at the Smithsonian, commenting on the usefulness of collections there to folklorists and researchers in American material culture.
"We Never Saw These Things Before': Southwest Indian Laughter and Resistance to the Invasion of the Tse va ho."
In M. Weigle and Barbara Babcock. The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway. Phoenix: The Heard Museum, 1996.
An essay on the uses of traditional and contemporary visual art and material culture as a form of resistance among Pueblos.
"The Image of the Indian in American Popular Culture"
in Wilcomb Washburn, ed. The Handbook of North American Indians IV. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press: 587–606, 1989.
"An Addendum on American Indian Cultural Policies"
to the Report of the American Indian Policy Review Commission. with Arnold T. Anderson et al. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1977.
An analysis of U.S. policies relative to Native American cultures (language, education, art production and preservation, music) for a federally commisioned report.
"The Texture of Memory: Historical Process and Contemporary Art."
In S. Cahan and Zoya Kocur. Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education. New York: Routledge and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, 1996.
An essay on contemporary Native visual art as commentary on history.
"Poor Lo and Dusky Ramona: Scenes From a Nineteenth Century Album on Indian America,"
in Jane Becker, ed. Folk Roots, New Roots: The Formation of American Folk Culture. Boston, MA: Museum of Our National Heritage: Lexington, MA, 1989.
An examination of the visual and material manifestations.
"Snail Darters, Indians and Social Impact Assessment: Resisting the Politics of Doom."
Anthropology Resource Center Newsletter. 4, no. 1 (March): 1, 1980.
“Culture and Gender in Indian America."
In Patricia Hill Collins and Margaret Anderson, eds. Race, Culture and Gender: An Anthology. Belmont, Ca., Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1994.
Article on Native women’s persistent and changing roles in Native cultures.
"The Tribe Called Wannabee: Playing Indian in Europe and America."
Folklore (England) 99 (1988): 30–35; reprinted in in W. Fleming and J, Watts, eds. Visions of A People: Introduction to Native American Studies, and in Bruchac, ed. Contemporary Cherokee Prose Writing, 1995.
A much-cited and reprinted essay which details the culturally-expressive manifestations of “playing Indian” in American popular culture.
"Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville: The Cult of Nachismo and the New American Cuisine."
The Digest: A Newsletter for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food 6, no.1 (Fall): 1, 25–28, 1986.
A critique of contemporary adaptations of traditional foodways in modern “fusion” food.
"Repatriating Images: Indians and Photography."
Rendezvous 28. Nos. 1 and 2 (Spring/Fall, 1993). (Appeared, July, 1994): 151–158.
An article that explores the movement among contemporary Native photographers to comment on and redeem Native identities from the misrepresentations in photography of the past.
"Folk Is A Four-Letter Word: Dealing With Traditional **** in Fieldwork, Analysis and Presentation"
in Richard M. Dorson, ed. The Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington, In.: Indiana University Press, 1981.
An article which attempts to set some guidelines for scholarly fieldwork, analysis and presentation of bawdy or obscene materials.
"Rosebuds of the Plateau: Frank Matsura and the Fainting Couch Aesthetic,"
in Lucy Lippard, ed. Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans. New York: New Press, 1992; reprinted in Dark Night, 2000.
A piece of creative nonfiction that comments on historical photography of Indians and reimagines the history of the two Northwest Coast women in a turn-of-the-century photograph by Frank Matsura, a Japanese photographer in Washington State.
Women in American Indian Society,
Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1991.
Used as a textbook in many colleges; an introduction to the histories and cultures of Native women in North America. Illustrated with art, photography and material culture.
"The Tribe Called Wannabee: Playing Indian in Europe and America"
(1988); reprinted in W. Fleming and J, Watts, eds. Visions of A People: Introduction to Native American Studies, 1994.
A much-cited and reprinted essay, used in Native studies curricula on the centrality of representations of Native Americans in American popular culture to American identity, particularly the phenomenon of "playing Indian."
"Towards A Code of Ethics in the Conduct of Culturally-Based Scientific Research"
in JV Martinez and Diana Marinez, eds. Aspects of Indian and Hispanic Involvement in Biomedical Research: Proceedings of the Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native American Scientists, 1981. Bethesda, Md: National Institutes of Health, 1980.
An article that lays the groundwork for the development of a code of ethics in culturally-based scientific research.
That's What She Said: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry By Native American Women,
ed. Bloomington, Indiana, 1984.
A brief literary history of the creative work of American Indian women with sections from 12 representative
contemporary writers.
"Grass Don't Grow On a Racetrack and Other Paradigms for Folklore and Feminism."
Introduction to Jane Young et al, eds. Folklife and Feminist Theory, University of Illinois Press, 1993 (appeared, January, 1994).
An attempt to characterize the central themes and issues of feminist theory produced by folklore scholars.
Indian SIA: The Social Impact Assessment of Rapid Resource Development on Native Peoples,
with Charles Geisler, Patrick West, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan School of Natural Resources Report Series, 1980.
The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America,
with Melanie Fernandez. London, Bloomington, IN, Toronto, Canada: British Museum Press, 1999.
Up-to-date histories and cultures of first peoples (North America) from a native perspective; highly illustrated, with stories, poems, eye-witness, first person accounts from native peoples on events, issues, art, mythologies, gender roles, economics, contact, sovereignty, self-determination, land, environment. Uses artifacts from the collections at the British Museum and Smithsonian.
Native American Women: A Contextual Bibliography.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984.
Comprehensive bibliography on Native North American women, with historical commentary.
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