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Vol. 32, No. 2 2008

Articles

  • Preface, by Andrew Jolivette
  • Introduction: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster, by Andrew Jolivette

Part I: The Status of the Houma Nation Post-Katrina

  • Watered by Tempests: Hurricanes in the Cultural Fabric of the United Houma Nation, by J. Daniel d'Oney
  • Tales of Wind and Water: Houma Indians and Hurricanes, by T. Mayheart Dardar

Part II: Media Invisibility: Understanding Race and Place

  • George Bush May Not Like Black People, but No One Gives a Dam about Indigenous Peoples: Visibility and Indianness after the Hurricanes, by C. Richard King
  • Missed by the Mass Media: The Houma, Pointe-au-Chien, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, by Robert Keith Collins

Part III: Preserving Culture, Rebuilding Lives

  • Ordinary and Extraordinary Trauma: Race, Indigeneity, and Hurricane Katrina in Tunica-Biloxi History, by Brian Klopotek, Brenda Lintinger, and John Barbry
  • The Last Indian in the World, by Carolyn Dunn
  • Compass of Compassion: Reflections on a Choctaw Vision of Alliances and Unrecognized Peoples Following Katrina, by John Brown Childs
  • Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed-Blood Indian-Creole Identity Outside the Written Record, by L. Rain Cranford-Gomez

Reviews

  • About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists, edited by Zena Pearlstone and Allan J. Ryan. Reviewed by Mario A. Caro
  • The American Discovery of Europe, by Jack B. Forbes. Reviewed by Kenneth M. Ames
  • American Indian Nations: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, edited by George P. Horse Capture, Duane Champagne, and Chandler C. Jackson. Reviewed by Clifford E. Trafzer
  • Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona, by Eric V. Meeks. Reviewed by Jeff Schulze
  • The Day the World Ended at the Little Bighorn: A Lakota History, by Joseph M. Marshall III. Reviewed by Jeffrey Ostler
  • Fast Cars and Frybread: Reports from the Rez, by Gordon Johnson. Reviewed by Jeff Karem
  • Fellow Travelers: Indians and Europeans Contesting the Early American Trail, by Philip Levy. Reviewed by P. Nick Kardulias
  • Gall: Lakota War Chief, by Robert W. Larson. Reviewed by Ron McCoy
  • A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion, edited by Phillip Earenfight. Reviewed by William C. Meadows
  • Legislating Indian Country: Significant Milestones in Transforming Tribalism, by Laurence Armand French. Reviewed by David R. M. Beck
  • Living through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's Lives, by Joanne McCloskey. Reviewed by Jennie R. Joe
  • Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History, by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh. Reviewed by David Samuels
  • Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist, by Darlis A. Miller. Reviewed by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
  • Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing, edited by Rebecca Kugel and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. Reviewed by Catherine J. Denial
  • On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions, by Felix S. Cohen. Reviewed by Justin B. Richland
  • Sovereign Bones: New Native American Writing, Vol II, edited by Eric Gansworth. Reviewed by Deborah A. Miranda
  • Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and the Moon in Two Windows, by N. Scott Momaday. Reviewed by Raphael Comprone
  • Trail of the Red Butterfly, by Karl H. Schlesier. Reviewed by Lisa Carl
  • Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures, edited by Elvira Pulitano. Reviewed by Kenneth Lincoln
  • White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation, by Jacqueline Fear-Segal. Reviewed by Wilbert H. Ahern