Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues

While Native American communities remain culturally innovative and continue to struggle for survival, researchers, teachers, and students lack texts that both represent the breadth of contemporary experiences and look toward the future. Editor Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Section introductions provide background and analyses of the issues. Informative and critical studies offer experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native settings. This book and its companion volume, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, edited by Troy R. Johnson, are ideal teaching tools and resources for anyone working in or with Native communities.

Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Introductions to each topical section provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. The informative and critical studies that follow offer experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native settings. Topics include identity, gender, the powwow, mass media, health and environmental issues. This book and its companion volume, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, edited by Troy R. Johnson, are ideal teaching tools for instructors in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and anthropology, and important resources for anyone working in or with Native communities.

Chapter 1 Duane Champagne, Introduction
Chapter 2 I. Native Identity
Chapter 3 1. D. Mihesuah, American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual Choices and Development
Chapter 4 2. W. Churchill, The Crucible of American Indian Identity: Native Tradition versus Colonial Imposition in Postconquest North America
Chapter 5 II. Gender
Chapter 6 3. K.B. Chiste, Aboriginal Women and Self-Government
Chapter 7 4. B. Brant, The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Women's Writing
Chapter 8 5. B.G. Miller, Contemporary Tribal Codes and Gender Issues
Chapter 9 III. Contemporary Powwow
Chapter 10 6. M. Mattern, The Powwow as a Public Arena
Chapter 11 7. L.E. Lassiter, Southwestern Oklahoma, the Gourd Dance, and Charlie Brown
Chapter 12 IV. Film and Other Media
Chapter 13 8. L.A. Whitt, Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America
Chapter 14 9. S. Leuthold, Native Media's Communities
Chapter 15 10. L.P. Brumbaugh, Ethnical Issues for Photographers of Native Americans
Chapter 16 V. Health
Chapter 17 11. P.A. May, Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse among Native Americans
Chapter 18 12. C.M. Pego et al., Tobacco, Culture, and Health among Native Americans
Chapter 19 13. M.C. Mahoney and A.M. Michalek, Cancer Control Research among American Indians and Alaska Natives
Chapter 20 VI. Environmental Issues
Chapter 21 14. D. Waller, Friendly Fire: When Environmentalists Dehumanize American Indians
Chapter 22 15. J. Wolfley, Ecological Risk Assessment and Management
Chapter 23 16. R. L. Spieldoch, Uranium Is In My Body
Chapter 24 Index
Chapter 25 Acknowledgments
Chapter 26 About the Editor