Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans

391 Pages·2011·0.99 MB·English

by  Alison Owings

Indian Voices
(cid:2)

Indian Voices
(cid:2)
Listening to Native Americans
Alison Owings
rutgers university press
new brunswick, new jersey, and london
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Owings, Alison.
Indian voices : listening to Native Americans / Alison Owings.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–8135–4965–1(hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Indians of North America—Ethnic identity. 2. Indians of North America—Social
conditions. 3. Indians of North America—Cultural assimilation. 4. Indians,
Treatment of—North America. 5. Indians of North America—Biography. I. Title.
E98.E85O85 2011
970.004(cid:2)97—dc22
2010028683
A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British
Library.
Copyright © 2011by Alison Owings
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For those who talked and trusted
And again, for Jonathan

“It’s a lot to grasp.”
—Louise Erdrich on the subject of
contemporary Native American life

Contents
Preface xi
Introduction xxi
1 A Man of the Dawn: Darrell Newell
(Passamaquoddy) 1
2 “Indians 101”: Elizabeth Lohah Homer (Osage) 18
3 A Trio of Lumbees: Pamela Brooks Sweeney,
Curt Locklear, and Mary Ann Cummings
Jacobs 37
4 Elders of the Haudenosaunee: Darwin Hill
(Tonawanda Seneca) and Geraldine Green
(Cattaraugus Seneca) 62
5 City Kid: Ansel Deon (Lakota/Navajo) 92
6 The Drum Keeper: Rosemary Berens (Ojibwe) 109
7 “How’s everybody doing tonight?”: Marcus Frejo,
aka Quese IMC (Pawnee/Seminole) 128
8 Tales from Pine Ridge: Karen Artichoker, with
Heath Ducheneaux and Dwanna Oldson
(Lakota) 142
9 “Get over it!” and Other Suggestions: Patty
Talahongva (Hopi) 168
10 The Former President: Claudia Vigil-Muniz
(Jicarilla Apache) 188
ix