Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination

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As survivors of genocide, mnemonicide, colonization, and forced assimilation, American Indians face a unique set of rhetorical exigencies in US public culture. Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and political rhetoric of American indigenous communities, including essays on the politics of public memory, culture and identity controversies, stereotypes and caricatures, mascotting, cinematic representations, and resistance movements and environmental justice. This volume brings together recognized scholars and emerging voices in a series of critical projects that question the intersections of civic identity, including how American indigenous rhetoric is complicated by or made more dynamic when refracted through the lens of gender, race, class, and national identity. The authors assembled in this project employ a variety of rhetorical methods, theories, and texts committed to the larger academic movement toward the decolonization of Western scholarship. This project illustrates the invaluable contributions of American Indian voices and perspectives to the study of rhetoric and political communication. Cover Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword: The Questions of Decolonization (Mary E. Stuckey) Notes Introduction: Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric (Casey Ryan Kelly / Jason Edward Black) Where We Have Been, Where We Are Going A Commitment to Decolonization Preview of the Book Notes Part One: Time, Memory, and Identity Chapter One: Decolonizing Reconciliation: Art and Conciliation from the Ground Up Among Canadian Aboriginal Peoples (Randall A. Lake / Tyler Hiebert / Chris Robbins) The Indian Residential School System and Reconciliation Artistic Visions of Reconciliation The Witness Blanket The Witness Blanket’s Visual Counterargument Conclusion Notes Chapter Two: Women at the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument: Remapping the Gendered/Sexed Circumference of Memory (Catherine Palczewski) Decolonial Remapping as a Rhetorical Practice Goeman and Massey on Mapping Space Burkean Scenic Circumference A Physics Tutorial: Centrifugal/Centripetal Forces and Velocity Remapping the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn From Custer Battlefield National Monument to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument: Still a Battlefield The Indian Memorial: Outlining Women’s Presence The Events: Remapping Histories’ Stories Conclusion Notes Chapter Three: Melancholic Mirages and Ethopoeic Enemies: Reconsidering Temporality in Canada’s Apologies to First Peoples (Lee M. Pierce) Lines Are Made for Crossing Ethopoeia: (Neo)Colonialism’s Master Trope Melancholic Mirages Ethopoeic Enemies Conclusion: Trudeau’s Concentric Circle Notes Chapter Four: “The Original Homeland Security, Fighting Terrorism Since 1492”: A Public Chrono-Controversy (Matthew Brigham / Paul Mabrey) Chrono-Controversy “Homeland Security” Rhetorics “Homeland Security” as a Post-9/11 Response “Fighting Terrorism since 1492” as a “Homeland Security” Response Rhetorical Invention and Agency Geronimo’s Ghost Transgressing the Sacred Risks Temporalizing Sovereignty “Homeland Security” as Insecurity Constructing Homeland and Hometime Lessons for Decolonial Public Address Scholarship Notes Part Two: Representations, Caricatures, and the Popular Chapter Five: Decolonizing Caricature: Prosopographia in the Comic Politics of Marty Two Bulls, Sr. (Christopher J. Gilbert) Slings and Arrows Caricature Is Wakan Conclusion: Forked Tongues and Volte-Faces Notes Chapter Six: Indians Aren’t Funny: Native Stand-Up as Contact Zone (Amanda Morris / Casey R. Schmitt) Introduction Native American Studies, Stand-Up, and the Academic Perspective Contact Zones, Epideictic Rhetoric, and Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries Decolonizing Theory Howie Miller: “Caucasionally-impaired” Don Burnstick: “I’ve Got Nothin’ Against White People” Powwow Comedy Jam: “Trail of Laughs” Deanna M. A. D: “Bullshit Alarm” Conclusion Notes Chapter Seven: A Critical Rhetorical History of the Utes Nickname (Danielle Endres) Colonialism Rhetorical History as Critical Intervention The Utes Nickname American Indian Responses to the Utes Nickname Cultural Appropriation and Self-Determination Harm and Honor Unsanctioned and Sanctioned Behaviors Ute Experience and American Indian Experience Conclusion Notes Chapter Eight: Survive or Surrender: The Rhetoric of Indigenous Land in Hell or High Water and Wind River (Raymond Blanton) The (Modern) American Frontier Western Myth Western Films Dispossession of Native Land Taylor Made Hell or High Water Wind River Conclusion Notes Part Three: “Rhetorics of Resistance” Chapter Nine: The Tail of the Black Snake: Social Protest and Survivance in South Louisiana (Stephanie Houston Grey) Reclamation and Survivance Back to the Well: Colonial Arguments and Displaced Peoples’ Resistance Nomad Circle Paper Conclusion: Oxygenating the Waters Notes Chapter Ten: Intersectional Rhetoric and the Perversity of Form: Ada Deer’s Confirmation Statement as Resistive Rhetoric (Margret Mccue-Enser) Ada Deer: Champion of Tribal Sovereignty Intersectional Rhetoric and the Perversity of Form Relationships Land and Sovereignty The Failure of the Federal Government and the Call for a Federal-Tribal Partnership Rethinking American Indian Agency and the Perversity of Form Notes Chapter Eleven: The Rhetorical Persona of the Water Protectors: Anti-Dakota Pipeline Resistance with Mirror Shields (Kelly Young) Mirror Shields: Reflecting the Colonial Gaze Water Snake Performance: Water Protector Persona and Transcending Focus Conclusion Notes Chapter Twelve: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rhetorical Strategies for Environmental Protection and Tribal Resistance in the Dakota Access Pipeline Movement (Rachel Presley) Indigenizing Political Resistance Reimagining Kairos towards Indigenous Temporalities Contextualizing the Chronological: The DAPL from February 2015–November 2016 Protesting/Protecting: An Orientation Protesting/Protecting: Environment Protesting/Protecting: Colonialism Rhetorical Survivance and Future Uncertainties Notes Chapter Thirteen: Counterpublicity and the Trail of Broken Treaties: Why Not “AIM” for New Sites of Deliberation? (Kristine Warrenburg Rome) The Trail of Broken Treaties and the Pan AmericanNative Quest for Justice A Confrontational Ethical Paradox Conclusion Notes Chapter Fourteen: Farming, Fieldwork, and Sovereignty: Addressing Colonialist Systems with Participatory Critical Rhetoric (Anthony Sutton) Western Influences Shaping Symbolic Orientations to Land, Cultures, and Bodies Growing the Methods of Change: From Fieldwork to Sovereignty Complicating Notions of Distance in Fieldwork Creating New Symbolic References with the Farm and the Micmac Community Creating New Symbolic Reference Within Fieldwork and Farming Creating Opportunities to Support Sovereign Food Systems Conclusion Notes Contributor Biographies Index