Native American Studies Quarterly

This quarterly newsletter provides information on at the Native American Studies Center at University of South Carolina Lancaster including events and activities surrounding the faculty, staff, students, and alumni

Native American studies quarterly

This quarterly newsletter provides information on at the Native American Studies Center at University of South Carolina Lancaster including events and activities surrounding the faculty, staff, students, and alumni

Native American studies quarterly

This quarterly newsletter provides information on at the Native American Studies Center at University of South Carolina Lancaster including events and activities surrounding the faculty, staff, students, and alumni

The Political Leadership of Women of Color in Massachusetts: Uneven Progress Amid Historic Advances

Since the 2015 release of Profiles in Leadership: Women of Color Elected to Office in Massachusetts which documented the electoral leadership of 94 women of color who had ever served in office in Massachusetts, at least 34 women of color have been elected to office, reflecting a 36% increase in the past four years

When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sex, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846, by Ramón A. Gutiérrez

INTRODUCTION The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico have been the subjects of a specific kind of mythologizing since the Spanish colonists arrived in the sixteenth century, but particularly so since the 1920s. There have been two distinct and often parallel aspects of this image-making. One is promulgated by social scientists in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and history. The other is touted by entrepreneurs of tourism and popular culture. Among social scientists, New Mexico early became a ”living laboratory.” Among entrepreneurs and state boosters, New Mexico became a “living backdrop.” In both instances, however, the interpretations were and are dominated by outsiders (non-Pueblo) who seek, for their own affirmation, a primitive and exotic humanscape. In their imagining about the exotic and the primitive, these outside observers draw on their own preconceptions and experiences to selectively appropriate elements of the mystical and mythical "Indian." The consequent image is a subjective interpretation, the purpose of which is to corroborate the outsider's viewpoint, and not least to gain money and prestige