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Mediating Indianness investigates a wide range of media—including print, film, theater, ritual dance, music, recorded interviews, photography, and treaty rhetoric—that have been used in exploitative, informative, educative, sustaining, protesting, or entertaining ways to negotiate Native American identities and images. The contributors to this collection are (Native) American and European scholars whose initial findings were presented or performed in a four-panel format at the 2012 MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) conference in Barcelona. The selection of the term Indianness is deliberate. It points to the intricate construction of ethnicity as filtered through media, despite frequent assertions of "authenticity." From William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's claim, extravagantly advertised on both sides of the Atlantic, that he was staging "true-to-life" scenes from Indian life in his Wild West shows to contemporary Native hip-hop artist Quese IMC's announcement that his songs tell his people's "own history" and draw on their "true" culture, media of all types has served to promote disparate agendas claiming legitimacy. This volume does not shy away from the issue of evaluation and how it is only tangential to medial artificiality. As evidenced in this collection, "the vibrant, ever-transforming future of Native peoples is located within a complex intersection of cultural influences," said Susan Power, author of Sacred Wilderness.
Contents
Contents Preface Part One. Transethnicity/Transculturality and Protest in Historical Contexts Billy J. Stratton, "You Have Liberty to Return to Your Own Country": Tecumseh, Myth, and the Rhetoric of Native Sovereignty Sonja Georgi, "IndiVisible" Identities: Mediating Native American and African American Encounters and Transethnic Identity in A Thrilling Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee Cathy Covell Waegner, "Buffalo Bill Takes a Scalp": Mediated Transculturality on Both Sides of the Atlantic with William F. Cody's Wild West, from Show to Hollywood and YouTube A. Robert Lee, Native Postmodern? Remediating History in the Fiction of Stephen Graham Jones and D. L. Birchfield A. Robert Lee, Flight Times in Gerald Vizenor's Blue Ravens: White Earth Mediating History Part Two. (Trans)media Literacy, Youth Cultures, and Nation Ellen Cushman, ᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᎪᏪᎵ Cherokee Writing: Mediating Traditions, Codifying Nation Chris LaLonde, "We Can Tell Our Own History, We Can Tell Our Own Future": Quese IMC, Culture Shock Camp, and an Indigenous Hip-Hop Movement Christine Plicht, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man Revisited: Still Thwarting All Cultural and Cinematic Notions of Alterity Ludmila Martanovschi, Mediating the Native Gaze: The American Indian Youth's Cinematic Presence in Chris Eyre's Films Kimberly Blaeser, Refraction and Helio-tropes: Native Photography and Visions of Light Interlude Evelina Zuni Lucero, RefleXions: A Creative Essay Jane Haladay, Festa de Sant Joan: June 23, 2012, Barcelona, Spain Part Three. Performance, Gender, and Cultural Capital Sally McBeth, "The Bear Is Our Protector": Metaphor and Mediation in the Northern Ute (Nuche) Bear Dance Nicholle Dragone, Eric Gansworth's Theatrical Productions: "Indianness" Mediated through the Juxtaposition of Cultural Capital and Performance John Purdy, Eric Gansworth's Re-Creation Story: Mediation and Remediation Kerstin Schmidt, Mobile Indians: Capitalism, the Performance of Mobility, and the Mediation of Place in Minda Martin's Documentary Free Land Part Four. "Crow Commons": Creative Correspondences and Virtual Affiliations Kimberly Blaeser, Jane Haladay, Gordon Henry Jr., Molly McGlennen, and Jesse Peters, An Exposition of Virtual Exchanges Gerald Vizenor, Envoy: Response to "Crow Commons" Notes on Contributors
