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Trans-Indigenous
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Indigenous Americas
Robert Warrior, Series Editor
Chadwick Allen, Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native
Literary Studies
Raymond D. Austin, Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law:
A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance
Lisa Brooks, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in
the Northeast
Kevin Bruyneel, The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial
Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations
Daniel Heath Justice, Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee
Literary History
Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
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Trans-Indigenous
Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies
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A section of the Introduction originally appeared in “A Transnational Native American Studies? Why
Not Studies That Are Trans-Indigenous?,” Journal of Transnational American Studies 4, no. 1 (2012).
An earlier version of chapter 1 originally appeared as “Unspeaking the Settler: ‘The Indian Today’ in
International Perspective,” American Studies 46, no. 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2005), and in Indigenous Studies
Today 1 (Fall 2005–Spring 2006): 39–57. An earlier version of chapter 3 originally appeared as “Engaging
the Politics and Pleasures of Indigenous Aesthetics,” Western American Literature 41, no. 2 (Summer
2006): 146–75. An earlier version of chapter 4 originally appeared as “Rere Kē/Moving Differently:
Indigenizing Methodologies for Comparative Indigenous Literary Studies,” Studies in American Indian
Literatures 19, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 1–26, and in Journal of New Zealand Literature 24, no. 2 (2007):
44–72. A section of chapter 5 originally appeared as “Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic
Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke’s Blood Run,” American Literature 82, no. 4 (December 2010): 807–34.
“Burial Mound” by Allison Hedge Coke is reproduced courtesy of the poet and Salt Publishing. “Sad
Joke on a Marae” by Apirana Taylor is reproduced courtesy of the poet. “Blood Quantum” by Naomi
Losch is reproduced courtesy of the poet. “Comparatively Speaking, There Is No Struggle” by Jacq
Carter is reproduced courtesy of the poet. “Celebrators ’88” by Kevin Gilbert is reproduced courtesy
of his estate. “Carnegie, Oklahoma, 1919” by N. Scott Momaday is reproduced courtesy of the poet.
“When I of Fish Eat” by Rowley Habib, with illustrations by Ralph Hotere, is reproduced courtesy
of the Maori Purposes Fund Board. “Waka 29: waka taua,” “51,” and “53” by Robert Sullivan are re-
produced courtesy of Auckland University Press. “The buffalo grass is still” from Indians’ Summer
by Nasnaga reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers; copyright 1975 by Nasnaga.
Every effort was made to obtain permission to reproduce material in this book. If any proper acknowledg-
ment has not been included here, we encourage copyright holders to notify the publisher.
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For Marie Hubbard Holder, 1914–2009
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Ands turn Comparative turn Trans- xi
Part I. Recovery / Interpretation
1. “Being” Indigenous “Now”: Resettling “The Indian
Today” within and beyond the U.S. 1960s 3
2. Unsettling the Spirit of ’76: American Indians
Anticipate the U.S. Bicentennial 49
Part II. Interpretation / Recovery
3. Pictographic, Woven, Carved: Engaging
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Acknowledgments
Support for this project was generously provided by a grant-in-aid
from the Division of Arts and Humanities at The Ohio State Univer-
sity; a Lannan Summer Institute in American Indian Studies at the
Newberry Library in Chicago; an NEH Summer Seminar on “Re-
imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands” at the East-West
Center at the University of Hawaii–Manoa; a CIES Senior Fulbright
Research Scholarship to the Alexander Turnbull Library in Welling-
ton, Aotearoa New Zealand; and the Moore Distinguished Visiting
Professorship in ethnic literatures in the Department of English at
the University of Oregon. While at Oregon I had the immense plea-
sure of hosting an event directly related to my research, Indigenous
Literatures and Other Arts: A Symposium and Workshop, which re-
ceived additional support from several departments and programs, the
Many Nations Longhouse, and the Office of Institutional Equity and
Diversity.
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