Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies

Chris Andersen (Michif) is Professor and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. He is the author of "Métis": Race, Recognition and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood (2014).Jean O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She has authored five books, including Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (2010).

"This book is a valuable collection of essays for anyone teaching or researching any aspect of Indigenous studies. It is an especially useful tool for young scholars who intend to work with indigenous communities, no matter what discipline they represent."Dawn Marsh, Purdue University, USA

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionChris Andersen and Jean M. O’BrienPART ONE: EMERGING FROM THE PAST Chapter One: Historical Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies: Touching on the Past, Looking to the FutureJean M. O’BrienChapter Two: Literary Reflections on Indigenous Literary Nationalism: On Home Grounds, Singing Hogs, and Cranky CriticsDaniel Heath JusticeChapter Three: History, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies Pauline Turner StrongChapter Four: Reclaiming the Statistical "Native": Quantitative Historical Research Beyond the PaleChris Andersen and Tahu KukutaiPART TWO: ALTERNATIVE SOURCES AND METHODOLOGICAL REORIENTATIONSI. Reframing Indigenous StudiesChapter Five: Recovering, Restorying, and Returning Nahua Writing in MexicoKelly McDonoughChapter Six: Mind, Heart, Hands: Thinking, Feeling, and Doing in Indigenous History MethodologyK. Tsianina LomawaimaChapter Seven: Relationality: A Key Presupposition of an Indigenous Social Research ParadigmAileen Moreton-RobinsonChapter Eight: Standing With and Speaking as Faith: A Feminist-Indigenous Approach to InquiryKim TallBearChapter Nine: Stepping In It: How to Smell the Fullness of Indigenous HistoriesVicente DiazChapter Ten: Intellectual History and Indigenous MethodologyRobert WarriorChapter Eleven: A Genealogy of Critical Hawaiian Studies, Late 20th to 21st CenturyNoenoe K. SilvaChapter Twelve: Placing the City: Crafting Urban Indigenous HistoriesColl ThrushII. All in the FamilyChapter Thirteen: "I do still have a letter:" Our Sea of Archives"Alice Te Punga SomervilleChapter Fourteen: History with Nana: Family, Life, and the Spoken SourceAroha HarrisChapter Fifteen: Elder Brother as Theoretical FrameworkRobert InnesChapter Sixteen: Histories with Communities: Struggles, Collaborations, TransformationsAmy E. Den Ouden Chapter Seventeen: Places and Peoples: Sámi Feminist Technoscience and Supradisciplinary Research Methods May-Britt Ohman, Uppsala UniversityChapter Eighteen: Oral HistoryWilliam Bauer, Jr.III. Feminism, Gender, and SexualityChapter Nineteen: Status, Sustainability, and American Indian Women in the Twentieth CenturyJacki Thompson RandChapter Twenty: Representations of Violence: (Re)Telling Indigenous Women’s Stories and the Politics of Knowledge Production Shannon SpeedChapter Twenty-One: Feminism and History, Sources and Methods in Indigenous HistoryMishuana GoemanChapter Twenty-Two: History and MasculinityBrendan HokowhituChapter Twenty-Three: Indigenous is to Queer as . . . : Queer questions for Indigenous StudiesMark RifkinIV. Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture Chapter Twenty-Four: State Violence, History, and Maya Literature in GuatemalaEmilio de valle EscalanteChapter Twenty-Five: Pieces Left Along the Trail: Material Culture Histories and Indigenous StudiesSherry Farrell Racette, in conversation with Alan Corbiere and Crystal MigwansChapter Twenty-Six: Authoring Indigenous Studies in Three Dimensions: An Approach to Museum CurationGabrielle TayacChapter Twenty-Seven: Future Tense: Indigenous Film, Pedagogy, PromiseMichelle RahejaV. Indigenous Peoples In and Beyond the StateChapter Twenty-Eight: Stories as Law: A Method to Live byHeidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark Chapter Twenty-Nine: Metis in the Borderlands of the Northern Plains in the Nineteenth CenturyBrenda Macdougall and Nicole St-Onge Chapter Thirty: Plotting Colonization and Recentering Indigenous Actors: Approaches to and Sources for Studying the History of Indigenous EducationMargaret D. JacobsChapter Thirty-One: Laws, Codes, and Informal Practices: Building Ethical Procedures for Historical Research with Indigenous Medical RecordsMary Jane Logan McCallum Chapter Thirty-Two: Toward a Post-Quincentennial Approach to the Study of GenocideJeffrey Ostler Chapter Thirty-Three: Revealing, Reporting, and Reflecting: Indigenous Studies Research as Praxis in Reconciliation ProjectsSheryl Lightfoot