What is an Indian Family? The Indian Child Welfare Act and the Renascence of Tribal Sovereignty

"Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies." Published as a special joint issue with American Studies, Volume 46, No. 3/4, Fall 2005/Spring 2006

The mascot slot : cultural citizenship, political correctness and pseudo-indian sports symbols

Aborde le problème des symboles sportifs pseudo-indiens et de l'image caricaturale institutionnalisée qu'ils véhiculent. S'appuie sur les concepts respectifs des anthropologues M.R Trouillet et Haiwa Ong pour dénoncer cette forme allégorique de ''citoyenneté culturelle'' qui constitue un véritable obstacle à une véritable reconnaissance culturelle et une réelle participation citoyenne du peuple amérindien

Voicing the ancestors II: Readings in memory of George Stocking

This is the second Forum in which anthropologists give voice to a disciplinary ancestral figure of their choice. The goal is to bring to our attention the wisdom of anthropologists who were prominent at one time in the history of our discipline but whose work has fallen out of fashion or perhaps simply been buried beneath the accumulated scholarly production of their successors. Listening to these voices reminds us that however much scholarly fashions change, there are core issues that have preoccupied us for two centuries and that remain central to our work