A film which explores the impact of the Fred Harvey Company and early 20th century tourism on Native art and culture.
Publications
The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.
From Ritual to Retail: Pueblos, Tourism and the Fred Harvey Company.
Producer/Director. 17 minute documentary short video. Produced in association with the exhibition, Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art, 1995, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
"American Indian Women: Diverse Leadership for Social Change"
in Albrecht and Brewer, eds. Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances. Santa Cruz, Calif.: New Society Publishers, 1990; re-edited from “Culture and Gender in Indian America,” Sojourner: The Women's Forum 15 (September, 1989).
An essay which sets out some of the historical and cultural perameters of Native gender roles, cultural change, and political power in Native America.
Pissing in the Snow And Other Ozark Folktales,
editing and "Introduction," by Vance Randolph. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976; ix–xxix; Avon Paper edition, 1977. In print, University of Illinois Press, 1999, in its 15th edition; in print and in its 20th edition, 2003.
A collection of heretofore-unpublished tales of the noted Ozark collector and folklorist, Vance Randolph, which I edited and brought to publication.
Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women, 1995, and Heartbeat II, 1998.
Producer, with Howard Bass. CD/audiocassette recording. 79 minutes. Smithsonian Folkways.
A landmark sound recording in 2 volumes, of the music of contemporary American Indian women.
"American Indian Art in Oklahoma"
Oklahoma Today Special Issue on American Indian Art, (December, 1990).
"Vance Randolph's 'Unprintable' Tales."
Mid-South Folklore. 3, no.3 (1976).
An article on bringing Vance Randolph’s “bawdy” Ozark folktales to print.
Corn Is Who We Are: Pueblo Indian Food.
Co-Director (scripting, casting, artistic direction, edit) for film. 20 minute documentary short film. Produced by Alturas Films and Smithsonian Telecommunications. Winner, Silver Apple, National Educational Film Festival, 1994; English Spanish language versions.
A film that explores the centrality of corn to Pueblo culture, history and health and the death and rebirth of corn agriculture in Pueblo country.
"Kill the Indian and Save The Man: Indian Education in the United States."
Introduction to To Lead and To Serve: Indian Education at Hampton Institute, 1978–1923. an exhibition catalog. Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation on Humanities and Public Policy, 1989.
An introduction to an exhibition on Indian education at Hampton Institute with a brief history and analysis of US policy and practice in the education of Indians in the 19th and twentieth centuries.
"Traits of Indian Character: The 'Indian' Anecdote in American Vernacular Culture."
Southern Folklore Quarterly. 39 (September, 1976).
An article on a particular genre of oral tradition, the anecdote, and its appearance in oral tradition relative to images and representations of Indians.
We Are Here: 500 Years of Pueblo Resistance.
Scriptwriter, artistic direction, casting for film. 14 minute documentary short film. Produced by Smithsonian Telecommunications, in association with the exhibition, American Encounters, National Museum of American History. Winner, Cine Golden Eagle, 1992.
A film which examines the Pueblo struggle to retain their land and their sovereignty in the face of invasion and domination attempts by Europeans and Americans.
"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.
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.
"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.
"A Modest Proposal: The Museum of the Plains White Person,"
in Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, and Andrew Dubill, eds. In Our Own Words: Greatest Speeches of The American Century. Kodansha America, Inc., 1999.
A satirical reversal of the usual representation of Native Americans in museums.
"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 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.
"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.
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