Manifest Manners: The Long Gaze of Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was denied beatification because of his avarice, baseness, and malevolent discoveries. He landed much lower in tribal stories and remembrance than he has in foundational histories and representations of colonialism; nonetheless, several centuries later his mistaken missions were uncovered anew and commemorated as entitlements in a constitutional democracy

The Envoy to Haiku

The Toya Maru might have been the end of me. The train ferry lost power and turned over in a typhoon between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. More than a thousand people died at sea that night. I was lucky. Our battalion had been ordered, at the last minute, to remain on the northern island and bivouac in the pristine Imperial National Forest. The vessel carried soldiers of the United States First Cavalry Division transferring from Hokkaido to new posts on Honshu, reported The New York Times on 27 September 1954. The typhoon did widespread damage over the main islands of Japan. The Toya Maru carried my typewriter and copies of my first stories to the bottom of Tsugaru Strait. I was wise to haiku that summer and would tote no more than a notebook. Naturally, that coincidence, and the loss of my typewriter, were trivial at the time

The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies by Gretchen Bataille; Charles Silet Book Review

Ernest Alfred Dench, in his book Making the Movies (1915), wrote that a few white players specialize in Indian parts . . . by clever makeup they are hard to tell from real Redskins . . . To act as an Indian is the easiest thing possible, for the Redskin is practically motionless. Dench would like the tribes to be motionless perhaps, the cigar store wooden varieties, but few Native Americans, urban or reservation, mixedblood or traditional, are stalled by his blunt insensitivities. Gretchen Bataille and Charles Silet, editors of The Pretend Indians, have not been motionless in the cigar store either. The authors, professors at Iowa State University, studied the literature on tribal people in the movies and leaped from their front row seats to examine frontier fantasies and racist images in an outstanding collection of articles

The Unmissable: Transmotion in Native Stories and Literature

The Unmissable: Transmotion in Native Stories and Literatur

Head Water: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor

As Gerald Vizenor explains in the following interview, the act of going away has allowed him to return home richer as an individual and as a writer. Asia has been especially important in this regard: it was in Japan just after the Korean War that Vizenor experienced his first major literary discovery--haiku. Then, over twenty years later, after having published numerous books of poetry (including several books of haiku) and journalism, a year teaching in Tianjin, China resulted in Vizenor \u27s second novel, Griever: An American Monkey King in China. We talked with Gerald Vizenor in his office at UC-Berkeley in early January 1992, just a few months after the publication of The Heirs of Columbus, a work which, appearing as it did in the face of the quincentennial, announced in no uncertain terms, I\u27m not a victim of Columbus. For a mixed-blood Native American, that was quite an assertion. Looking at his own life and that around him, Vizenor continues re-shaping it, joined by the trickster who assists him in remembering how to turn pain and horror into humor

The White Earth Nation

The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified a new constitution in 2009, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth Nation set out to create a constitution that reflected its own culture. The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty, independent governance, traditional leadership values, and the importance of individual and human rights. This volume includes the text of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; an introduction by David E. Wilkins, a legal and political scholar who was a special consultant to the White Earth Constitutional Convention; an essay by Gerald Vizenor, the delegate and principal writer of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; and articles first published in Anishinaabeg Today by Jill Doerfler, who coordinated and participated in the deliberations and ratification of the Constitution. Together these essays and the text of the Constitution provide direct insight into the process of the delegate deliberations, the writing and ratification of this groundbreaking document, and the current constitutional, legal, and political debates about new constitutions

The Constitution of the White Earth Nation

La Constitució de la Nació de la Terra Blanca va ser ratificada el 4 d?abril de 2009 per representats jurats. La Constitució proclama una separació de la constitució federal actual que va consolidar sis reserves anishinaabe o chippewa a Minnesota. Aquesta federació constitucional federal no ha servit als interessos concrets dels ciutadans de la reserva de la Terra Blanca. L?alienació de terres cedides per tractat, per exemple, i els usos de recursos naturals no poden, equitativament, ser decisió de qualsevol altre govern o federació de reserves. Per tractar la formació adequada d?un govern de la reserva independent, quaranta ciutadans van ser nomenats com a representants. Després de tres convencions constitucionals de dos dies celebrades per la reserva de la Terra Blanca, Gerald Vizenor va ser designat com a principal redactor de la nova constitució, en la qual ha treballat els dos últims anys. La Constitució de la Nació de la Terra Blanca va ser ratificada en la quarta convenció constitucional i serà presentada en breu als ciutadans de la reserva per votar-la en referèndum.The Constitution of the White Earth Nation was ratified by sworn delegates on April 4, 2009. The Constitution declares a separation from the current federal constitution that consolidated six Anishinaabe or Chippewa reservations in Minnesota. This federal constitutional federation has not served the specific interests of the citizens of the White Earth Reservation. The disposition of treaty land, for instance, and the uses of natural resources cannot equitably be decided by any other government or federation of reservations. Forty citizen delegates were appointed to deliberate the appropriate formation of an independent reservation government. In the past two years after three two-day Constitutional Conventions on the White Earth Reservation, Gerald Vizenor was named the principal writer of the new constitution. The Constitution of the White Earth Nation was ratified at the fourth Constitutional Convention. The ratified Constitution will soon be presented to the citizens of the reservation as a referendum.La Constitución de la Nación de la Tierra Blanca fue ratificada el 4 de abril de 2009 por representantes jurados. La Constitución proclama una separación de la constitución federal actual que consolidó seis reservas anishinaabe o chippewa en Minnesota. Esta federación constitucional federal no ha servido a los intereses concretos de los ciudadanos de la reserva de la Tierra Blanca. La enajenación de tierras que fueron cedidas mediante tratado, por ejemplo, y los usos de recursos naturales no pueden, equitativamente, ser decisión de cualquier otro gobierno o federación de reservas. Para deliberar sobre la formación adecuada de un gobierno de la reserva independiente se nombró a cuarenta ciudadanos como representantes. Tras la celebración de tres convenciones constitucionales de dos días de la reserva de la Tierra Blanca, Gerald Vizenor fue designado como principal redactor de la nueva constitución, en la que ha trabajado los dos últimos años. La Constitución de la Nación de la Tierra Blanca fue ratificada en la cuarta convención constitucional y será presentada en breve a los ciudadanos de la reserva para votarla en referéndum

La Constitución de la Nación de la Tierra Blanca.

The Constitution of the White Earth Nation was ratified by sworn delegates on April 4, 2009. The Constitution declares a separation from the current federal constitution that consolidated six Anishinaabe or Chippewa reservations in Minnesota. This federal constitutional association has not served the specific interests of the citizens of the White Earth Reservation. The disposition of treaty land, for instance, and the uses of natural resources cannot equitably be decided by any other government or federation of reservations. Forty citizen delegates were appointed to deliberate the appropriate formation of an independent reservation government. In the past two years after three two-day Constitutional Conventions on the White Earth Reservation, Gerald Vizenor was named the principal writer of the new constitution. The Constitution of the White Earth Nation was ratified at the fourth Constitutional Convention. The ratified Constitution will soon be presented to the citizens of the reservation as a referendum.La Constitución de la Nación de la Tierra Blanca fue ratificada el 4 de abril de 2009 por representantes jurados. La Constitución proclama una separación de la constitución federal actual que consolidó seis reservas anishinaabe o chippewa en Minnesota. Esta federación constitucional federal no ha servido a los intereses concretos de los ciudadanos de la reserva de la Tierra Blanca. La enajenación de tierras que fueron cedidas mediante tratado, por ejemplo, y los usos de recursos naturales no pueden, equitativamente, ser decisión de cualquier otro gobierno o federación de reservas. Para deliberar sobre la formación adecuada de un gobierno de la reserva independiente se nombró a cuarenta ciudadanos como representantes. Tras la celebración de tres convenciones constitucionales de dos días de la reserva de la Tierra Blanca, Gerald Vizenor fue designado como principal redactor de la nueva constitución, en la que ha trabajado los dos últimos años. La Constitución de la Nación de la Tierra Blanca fue ratificada en la cuarta convención constitucional y será presentada en breve a los ciudadanos de la reserva para votarla en referéndum.La Constitució de la Nació de la Terra Blanca va ser ratificada el 4 d’abril de 2009 per representats jurats. La Constitució proclama una separació de la constitució federal actual que va consolidar sis reserves anishinaabe o chippewa a Minnesota. Aquesta federació constitucional federal no ha servit als interessos concrets dels ciutadans de la reserva de la Terra Blanca. L’alienació de terres cedides per tractat, per exemple, i els usos de recursos naturals no poden, equitativament, ser decisió de qualsevol altre govern o federació de reserves. Per tractar la formació adequada d’un govern de la reserva independent, quaranta ciutadans van ser nomenats com a representants. Després de tres convencions constitucionals de dos dies celebrades per la reserva de la Terra Blanca, Gerald Vizenor va ser designat com a principal redactor de la nova constitució, en la qual ha treballat els dos últims anys. La Constitució de la Nació de la Terra Blanca va ser ratificada en la quarta convenció constitucional i serà presentada en breu als ciutadans de la reserva per votar-la en referèndum

Manifest Manners: The Long Gaze of Christopher Columbus

Source: http://www.jstor.org/stable/303555?&Search=yes&searchText=%22Gerald+Vizenor%22&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dau%253A%2522Gerald%2BVizenor%2522%26gw%3Djtx%26acc%3Don%26prq%3Dau%253A%2522Irene%2BVasquez%2522%26Search%3DSearch%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=15&ttl=86&returnArticleService=showFullTextChristopher Columbus was denied beatification because of his avarice, baseness, and malevolent discoveries. He landed much lower in tribal stories and remembrance than he has in foundational histories and representations of colonialism; nonetheless, several centuries later his mistaken missions were uncovered anew and commemorated as entitlements in a constitutional democracy