What might result from hearing a particular song, wearing used clothing, or witnessing an accident? Ethnographic accounts of the Navajo refer repeatedly to the

The author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son o

This interdisciplinary collection of essays, by both Natives and non-Natives, explores presentations and representations of indigenous bodies in historical and

The average life expectancy of a male born on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota today is 40 years oldóthe lowest life expectancy of all peoples not on

The traditional method of composing the life history as a flowing narrative is not only morally dishonest but also intellectually inadequate because it conveys