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In a message dated 3/23/09 7:53:05 PM, crichardson66@comcast.net writes:
From: Daniel Murphree nasbsh@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009
Subject: CFC: Native America: A State-By-State History
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
NATIVE AMERICA: A STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY
Greenwood Press invites scholars of Native American history
to submit entries for its forthcoming publication titled
Native America: A State-by-State History. This 3-volume
set will cover North American Indian history in the United
States from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Intended for high school and college audiences, each
chapter will be organized alphabetically by state. Some
states will have shorter chapters, around 7,000-10,000
words in length; other states will be covered in 10,000
to 25,000 words. Each chapter will start with a chronology
of events significant to Native American history in that
particular state followed by a narrative overview of
these events, a section highlighting notable individual
Indians in the state, a brief essay on native cultural
contributions to the state and a suggested readings list.
Interested potential authors should submit a CV noting
their credentials and expertise as well as the name of
the state(s) on which they would like to submit chapters. Established
scholars and advanced graduate students are
encouraged to contribute. Each author will receive an
honorarium for their contribution, and depending on the
number of entries submitted, may be eligible to receive
a complimentary copy of the three volume set.
Approved contributors will receive an assignment and
contributors' guidelines document via email followed by
a release form postal mailed from the publisher to be
signed and returned. Complete entries are subject to a
rigorous editing process and will be accepted for
publication at the discretion of the editor and publisher.
Please send all inquiries to nasbsh @ gmail.com.
Editor, Native America: A State-by-State History
Daniel S. Murphree
Associate Professor of History
University of Texas at Tyler
3900 University Boulevard
Tyler, TX 75799
--------------------------------------
I am a professor at Bacone College in Muskogee, Ok; I am
editing an encyclopedia on American Indian affairs for
Greenwood Publishing. I am seeking advice, suggestions,
and contributions. I hope you don't mind if I take the
liberty of attaching a brief overview of the encyclopedia
that includes a working list of issues.
I am seeking suggestions of other issues that would be
relevant for this work, as well as contributors for this
volume. If you have a suggestion, are interested in
contributing, or know of potential contributors, please
let me know. I can be contacted at
russell.lawson @ gmail.com
or lawsonr @ bacone.edu.
Thanks very much.
Russell Lawson
Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today. Editor: Russell
M. Lawson, Bacone College
Overview:
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today
provides a complete examination of issues relevant to American Indians
in the second decade of the 21st century. Approximately
100 essays written by an international collection of scholars
will examine and describe political, social, economic, moral,
and cultural issues facing contemporary American Indians.
Each essay will describe theories, institutions, people,
laws, customs, and forms of expression and behavior relevant
to the particular issue. Sidebars will provide additional
information on people and topics of particular interest.
Charts and graphs on trends and numbers will lend statistical
support to the essays. Select transciptions of primary source documents
will be included, as will numerous illustrations
to provide visual support to the issues under study.
Anticipated publication date: 2011.
Issues and Topics:
Economic Issues
Employment: unemployment, Affirmative Action, discrimination.
Casinos/Gaming: economic boon; conflict among tribes; tourism.
Legal Issues
Civil and Human Rights: Ongoing racism toward Indians from non-Indians
within towns and states; hate crimes directed
toward Indians; reservation clashes with non-Indians in
nearby towns contesting for similar resources; challenges
to sovereignty by non-Indians; prejudice toward Indians in the workplace
and government.
Law and Justice: Congressional actions, court rulings, Supreme
Court, interpretation of Constitution.
Law Enforcement: tribal, local, federal; jurisdiction;
cooperation v. competition.
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept. of the Interior: relationship
to tribes and reservations: federal recognition and federal aid.
Indian Trust, Dept. of the Interior: mismanagement.
Repatriation: Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation
Act; sacred objects.
Political Issues
Federal Recognition: treaties; federal assistance: which
tribes are recognized, which aren’t, why?
Politics: influence on local, state, federal political offices;
grassroots political groups; Indians as lobbyists, and PACs.
Tribal Government: representing all members of tribe, on and
off reservation? Using resources, such as gaming money,
honestly and correctly?
Service in U.S. Armed Forces: underrepresented? Same
opportunities as whites? Prejudice?
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept. of the Interior: relationship
to tribes and reservations: federal recognition and federal aid.
Indian Trust, Dept. of the Interior: mismanagement.
Reservations: state and federal: relation of federal
reservations to Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Activism: political.
Sovereignty: relation to state and federal governments;
self-determination.
Social Issues
Social Problems: illiteracy, unwanted pregnancies, abortion.
Social Status: within tribes, between tribes, within white
society.
Family: interracial marriages and children; divorce; tribal traditions
v. pressures of contemporary society.
Women: leaders, rights, activism.
Health Care: Indian Health Service, diseases.
Poverty: children, tribal, reservations.
Race: race relations, especially blacks and Indians: competition
and rivalries in communities and on college campuses.
Substance Abuse: alcoholism; methamphetamines.
Religious Issues
Missionaries: Christianity: is the missionary impulse of
Christianity toward American Indians still valid?
Traditional v. Organized Religion: can synthesis of traditional
spiritual religion and Christianity be sustained? Is postmodern
Christianity viable among American Indians?
Education Issues
Higher Education: American Indian Studies, tribal colleges
and universities: is there still a place for exclusivity in
Indian higher education?
Public and Private Education: primary and secondary; Indian
schools; No Child Left Behind.
Psychological Issues
Emotional and Mental Problems: depression, anxiety, phobias.
Individualism: individual successes; challenges to individual successes;
tribal conformity.
Historical Issues
Genocide: contemporary historical issues: continued debate over
genocide. Attempts to convince Indians and non-Indians of its historical
reality; counter-attempts to prove “genocide” in the strict sense of the
word did not occur.
Intellectual Issues
Science: impact on tribal identity (forensics); archeology;
social sciences; geology; hydraulics.
Property Issues
Land Restoration: how to determine broken treaties; when
occupation is legal ownership.
Mineral Rights and Resources: mining, oil and gas: making money
v. protecting land and heritage.
Activism: rights, repatriation, government mismanagement of
lands and resources.
Nuclear Waste: monitored retrieval storage.
Environmental issues: pollution; “environmental racism”.
Tribal Land Use: hunting, fishing, water, hydroelectric:
What to use? What to preserve?
Cultural Issues
Modernization: embracing modern culture, assumptions,
technology, materialism.
Tribal Roles: “Popularity of Being Indian”; who is Indian
and who is not? The validity or lack thereof of percentage
of Indian blood.
Tribal Rivalries: inter-rivalries over land, opportunities,
tourism: intra-rivalries between urban and non-urban residents of same
tribe.
National Museum of the American Indian: on National Mall,
Washington, D.C.: too much popularization, making Indianness mainstream?
Stereotypes: in literature, film, education, sports;
traditional misconceptions; xenophobic language; ethnocentric attitude
toward Indians.
Arts and Humanities: poetry, literature, music, theater:
the American Indian “voice”; fraudulent and fake
representations of Indian art put on exhibit and for sale.
Indianness: personal and collective identity; what is an Indian?
Indian athletes: professional, amateur, traditional Indian;
under-representation of American Indians in NCAA and
professional sports; difficulty in getting college/professional
teams to consider Indians who played athletics on reservations;
inadequate educational background on reservation schools to be accepted
in top colleges and play for teams.
Film and Visual Media by and about Indians: documentaries and
dramatizations illustrating a wide range of issues such as
Indian activism, challenges of identity, education, reservation
life, relationship with federal government and other issues of
sovereignty.
Print Media by and about Indians: Misrepresentation and
distortion of tribal culture by newspapers and magazines
(such as religious beliefs and concern for sacred objects), particularly
gaming/casinos; political and social cartoons.
Historic Preservation: museums; historic structures. Funding?
Exclusivity legitimate? Indian ownership and control?
Cultural Preservation: traditions, ceremonies, languages;
group and self identity in the face of mass society.
Mascots and Logos: sports, advertising.
Urban Issues
Urban Indians: half the Indian population but often left
out of benefits reservation Indians enjoy; poverty; disparate
educational progress; mental and physical disabilities;
interaction of Urban Indians with urban non-Indians and
interaction with non-urban Indians on reservations from
the same tribe.
Regional Issues
Borderlands: Mexican tribes; cultural interaction; illegal immigrants;
dispute over use of resources.
Alaska: Alaska Indians; mineral rights: when to use land?
When to preserve?
Canada: Canadian Indians; cultural interaction; boundary issues
(resources) with Indians in Alaska and U.S.
Demographic Issues
Census Data: changes to Indian population; economic condition
of American (and Alaska) Indians: poverty, housing, home-life,
dependents; population growth on reservations.
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That's it for now. Part 3 will be out soon.
Have a great month.
Phil Konstantin
americanindian.net
Cherrie Richardson Collazo
From: Daniel Murphree nasbsh@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009
Subject: CFC: Native America: A State-By-State History
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
NATIVE AMERICA: A STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY
Greenwood Press invites scholars of Native American history
to submit entries for its forthcoming publication titled
Native America: A State-by-State History. This 3-volume
set will cover North American Indian history in the United
States from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Intended for high school and college audiences, each
chapter will be organized alphabetically by state. Some
states will have shorter chapters, around 7,000-10,000
words in length; other states will be covered in 10,000
to 25,000 words. Each chapter will start with a chronology
of events significant to Native American history in that
particular state followed by a narrative overview of
these events, a section highlighting notable individual
Indians in the state, a brief essay on native cultural
contributions to the state and a suggested readings list.
Interested potential authors should submit a CV noting
their credentials and expertise as well as the name of
the state(s) on which they would like to submit chapters. Established
scholars and advanced graduate students are
encouraged to contribute. Each author will receive an
honorarium for their contribution, and depending on the
number of entries submitted, may be eligible to receive
a complimentary copy of the three volume set.
Approved contributors will receive an assignment and
contributors' guidelines document via email followed by
a release form postal mailed from the publisher to be
signed and returned. Complete entries are subject to a
rigorous editing process and will be accepted for
publication at the discretion of the editor and publisher.
Please send all inquiries to nasbsh @ gmail.com.
Editor, Native America: A State-by-State History
Daniel S. Murphree
Associate Professor of History
University of Texas at Tyler
3900 University Boulevard
Tyler, TX 75799
--------------------------------------
I am a professor at Bacone College in Muskogee, Ok; I am
editing an encyclopedia on American Indian affairs for
Greenwood Publishing. I am seeking advice, suggestions,
and contributions. I hope you don't mind if I take the
liberty of attaching a brief overview of the encyclopedia
that includes a working list of issues.
I am seeking suggestions of other issues that would be
relevant for this work, as well as contributors for this
volume. If you have a suggestion, are interested in
contributing, or know of potential contributors, please
let me know. I can be contacted at
russell.lawson @ gmail.com
or lawsonr @ bacone.edu.
Thanks very much.
Russell Lawson
Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today. Editor: Russell
M. Lawson, Bacone College
Overview:
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today
provides a complete examination of issues relevant to American Indians
in the second decade of the 21st century. Approximately
100 essays written by an international collection of scholars
will examine and describe political, social, economic, moral,
and cultural issues facing contemporary American Indians.
Each essay will describe theories, institutions, people,
laws, customs, and forms of expression and behavior relevant
to the particular issue. Sidebars will provide additional
information on people and topics of particular interest.
Charts and graphs on trends and numbers will lend statistical
support to the essays. Select transciptions of primary source documents
will be included, as will numerous illustrations
to provide visual support to the issues under study.
Anticipated publication date: 2011.
Issues and Topics:
Economic Issues
Employment: unemployment, Affirmative Action, discrimination.
Casinos/Gaming: economic boon; conflict among tribes; tourism.
Legal Issues
Civil and Human Rights: Ongoing racism toward Indians from non-Indians
within towns and states; hate crimes directed
toward Indians; reservation clashes with non-Indians in
nearby towns contesting for similar resources; challenges
to sovereignty by non-Indians; prejudice toward Indians in the workplace
and government.
Law and Justice: Congressional actions, court rulings, Supreme
Court, interpretation of Constitution.
Law Enforcement: tribal, local, federal; jurisdiction;
cooperation v. competition.
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept. of the Interior: relationship
to tribes and reservations: federal recognition and federal aid.
Indian Trust, Dept. of the Interior: mismanagement.
Repatriation: Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation
Act; sacred objects.
Political Issues
Federal Recognition: treaties; federal assistance: which
tribes are recognized, which aren’t, why?
Politics: influence on local, state, federal political offices;
grassroots political groups; Indians as lobbyists, and PACs.
Tribal Government: representing all members of tribe, on and
off reservation? Using resources, such as gaming money,
honestly and correctly?
Service in U.S. Armed Forces: underrepresented? Same
opportunities as whites? Prejudice?
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept. of the Interior: relationship
to tribes and reservations: federal recognition and federal aid.
Indian Trust, Dept. of the Interior: mismanagement.
Reservations: state and federal: relation of federal
reservations to Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Activism: political.
Sovereignty: relation to state and federal governments;
self-determination.
Social Issues
Social Problems: illiteracy, unwanted pregnancies, abortion.
Social Status: within tribes, between tribes, within white
society.
Family: interracial marriages and children; divorce; tribal traditions
v. pressures of contemporary society.
Women: leaders, rights, activism.
Health Care: Indian Health Service, diseases.
Poverty: children, tribal, reservations.
Race: race relations, especially blacks and Indians: competition
and rivalries in communities and on college campuses.
Substance Abuse: alcoholism; methamphetamines.
Religious Issues
Missionaries: Christianity: is the missionary impulse of
Christianity toward American Indians still valid?
Traditional v. Organized Religion: can synthesis of traditional
spiritual religion and Christianity be sustained? Is postmodern
Christianity viable among American Indians?
Education Issues
Higher Education: American Indian Studies, tribal colleges
and universities: is there still a place for exclusivity in
Indian higher education?
Public and Private Education: primary and secondary; Indian
schools; No Child Left Behind.
Psychological Issues
Emotional and Mental Problems: depression, anxiety, phobias.
Individualism: individual successes; challenges to individual successes;
tribal conformity.
Historical Issues
Genocide: contemporary historical issues: continued debate over
genocide. Attempts to convince Indians and non-Indians of its historical
reality; counter-attempts to prove “genocide” in the strict sense of the
word did not occur.
Intellectual Issues
Science: impact on tribal identity (forensics); archeology;
social sciences; geology; hydraulics.
Property Issues
Land Restoration: how to determine broken treaties; when
occupation is legal ownership.
Mineral Rights and Resources: mining, oil and gas: making money
v. protecting land and heritage.
Activism: rights, repatriation, government mismanagement of
lands and resources.
Nuclear Waste: monitored retrieval storage.
Environmental issues: pollution; “environmental racism”.
Tribal Land Use: hunting, fishing, water, hydroelectric:
What to use? What to preserve?
Cultural Issues
Modernization: embracing modern culture, assumptions,
technology, materialism.
Tribal Roles: “Popularity of Being Indian”; who is Indian
and who is not? The validity or lack thereof of percentage
of Indian blood.
Tribal Rivalries: inter-rivalries over land, opportunities,
tourism: intra-rivalries between urban and non-urban residents of same
tribe.
National Museum of the American Indian: on National Mall,
Washington, D.C.: too much popularization, making Indianness mainstream?
Stereotypes: in literature, film, education, sports;
traditional misconceptions; xenophobic language; ethnocentric attitude
toward Indians.
Arts and Humanities: poetry, literature, music, theater:
the American Indian “voice”; fraudulent and fake
representations of Indian art put on exhibit and for sale.
Indianness: personal and collective identity; what is an Indian?
Indian athletes: professional, amateur, traditional Indian;
under-representation of American Indians in NCAA and
professional sports; difficulty in getting college/professional
teams to consider Indians who played athletics on reservations;
inadequate educational background on reservation schools to be accepted
in top colleges and play for teams.
Film and Visual Media by and about Indians: documentaries and
dramatizations illustrating a wide range of issues such as
Indian activism, challenges of identity, education, reservation
life, relationship with federal government and other issues of
sovereignty.
Print Media by and about Indians: Misrepresentation and
distortion of tribal culture by newspapers and magazines
(such as religious beliefs and concern for sacred objects), particularly
gaming/casinos; political and social cartoons.
Historic Preservation: museums; historic structures. Funding?
Exclusivity legitimate? Indian ownership and control?
Cultural Preservation: traditions, ceremonies, languages;
group and self identity in the face of mass society.
Mascots and Logos: sports, advertising.
Urban Issues
Urban Indians: half the Indian population but often left
out of benefits reservation Indians enjoy; poverty; disparate
educational progress; mental and physical disabilities;
interaction of Urban Indians with urban non-Indians and
interaction with non-urban Indians on reservations from
the same tribe.
Regional Issues
Borderlands: Mexican tribes; cultural interaction; illegal immigrants;
dispute over use of resources.
Alaska: Alaska Indians; mineral rights: when to use land?
When to preserve?
Canada: Canadian Indians; cultural interaction; boundary issues
(resources) with Indians in Alaska and U.S.
Demographic Issues
Census Data: changes to Indian population; economic condition
of American (and Alaska) Indians: poverty, housing, home-life,
dependents; population growth on reservations.
==================
X+X+X+X+X+X+X+X+X
==================
That's it for now. Part 3 will be out soon.
Have a great month.
Phil Konstantin
americanindian.net
Cherrie Richardson Collazo
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