Table of Contents for Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Approaching Indian Country Living the Heritage of Lac du Flambeau: Traditionalism and Treaty Rights Rights and Warriors: Media Memories and Oka Postcards of My Past: Indians and Artifacts Indian Country: Claiming Land in Native America Sacajawea and Her Sisters: Images and Native Women Dance Me Inside: Pow Wow and Being Indian Drumming the Past: Researching Indian Objects Blood Borders: Being Indian and Belonging Conclusion: All My Relations References Index
Gail Guthrie Valaskakis is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Concordia University in Montreal. She is a founding member of the boards of Waseskun Healing Lodge, the Montreal Native Friendship Centre, the Native North American Studies Institute, and Manitou Community College and has served on numerous boards dealing with issues involving women, First Nations, race, and culture. Her background is Chippewa and she was raised on the Lac du Flambeau reservation in Wisconsin. In 2002, she received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award for her contributions to Aboriginal media and communications. Valaskakis is currently the director of research at the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in Ottawa. Her writing on the development and impact of northern and Native communications and on issues of Aboriginal cultural studies is widely published.
"Illustrated with fascinating images and photographs, Valaskakis'
accounts are dense, intensely researched, theoretically
sophisticated, and highly personal. The result is impossible to
summarize, but tremendously enlightening and interesting to read."
-- Margery Fee -- Canadian Literature, 191, Winter 2006
"One of the volume's strong points is its elimination of the
artificial border we call the 49th parallel dividing Turtle Island
into Canada and the United States. Another is that throughout the
volume Valaskakis continually gives examples of the relationships
between Indian people and non-Indian people ... in a well-balanced
manner.... I recommend this volume highly to anyone who wishes to
learn ... about the worldview of Indian people." -- William
Asikinack
"There are books you wait for, patiently, because you know that
when they finally arrive, your patience will be rewarded. I have
been waiting patiently for Gail Guthrie Valaskakis's Indian
Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture and my patience has
been rewarded! These essays are a joy to read, filled with insights
not only on Native culture, experience, and politics but also on
the value and practice of cultural studies. Indian Country is one
of those books you will share with your colleagues, assign to your
students, and recommend to your friends. It is, quite simply, one
of the best books on questions of culture, identity, and belonging
that I have read in a long time." -- Lawrence Grossberg, Morris
Davis Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- 200504
"Indian Country is an excellent example of the emerging paradigm of
indigenous scholarship in its blend of the personal with indigenous
and mainstream academic theory. It is firmly grounded in the
personal lived experiences of the author, which ground and inform
the theoretical analysis and reflection." -- David Newhouse, Trent
University, Peterborough
"Creates an intriguing and insightful account of `interrelated
realities: individual and collective, past and present, Indian and
Other.'... Having read Valaskakis's book, researchers in 'Indian
Country' will never again consider Native people and their
articulations `transparent' but will extend their research into
composite methods of `interpreting practice, decoding silence, and
reconstructing absence' -- only to arrive at `truths' [that] are
... changeable and ambiguous." -- Renate Eigenbrod -- University of
Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2006, Volume 77, Number 1,
Winter 2008
"Indian Country is a perceptive analysis of the interrelated
histories and family encounters of Natives in Canada and the United
States. Gail Guthrie Valaskakis weaves the distinct narratives of
personal experiences, political practices, treaties, and social
science observations into a mature, memorable collection of
critical essays." -- Gerald Vizenor, Professor Emeritus, University
of California, Berkeley
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