Daniel Heath Justice
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Heath Justice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel Heath |
| FAMILY NAME | Justice |
| SIGNATURE | JUSTICE D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
John D. Loftin and Benjamin E. Frey, ‘People of Kituwah
John D. Loftin and Benjamin E. Frey, People of Kituwah: The Old Ways of the Eastern Cherokee (Oakland: University of California Press, 2024), xi + 286 pp., $34.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9780520400320
Cherokee Dispossession Through Claimant Self-Declaration
Despite extensive and multigenerational efforts by the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes to educate the larger public about the sovereign right and authority of Cherokee governments to determine affiliation, well over a million unaffiliated and unsubstantiated American claimants still declare Cherokee heritage in official records, deforming public understanding and reinforcing dangerously anti-Native racial logics. This article considers…
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples. Challenges readers to critically consider & rethink assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics, never forgetting the emotional connections of our shared humanity & the transformative power of story.
Introduction
Rather than being focused on Indigenous biographies as such, this special issue of Biography was conceived by Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori), Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), and Noelani Arista (Kanaka Maoli) as a wide-ranging conversation among Indigenous scholars, writers, artists, and filmmakers about the ethics, relations, practices, and considerations of representing Indigenous lives. The introduction by Te Punga Somerville and Jus…
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
Indigenous Literature and Other Verbal Arts, Canada (1960–2012)
Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Spacemen
Among the many important arguments in his 1972 book, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Dakota legal scholar and philosopher Vine Deloria, Jr. posits a race of spacemen who created human society. Womack argues that contemporary scholars of Native literatures have overlooked these kinds of “kooky” claims in Deloria’s work. In God Is Red, Deloria’s discussion of aliens gives the book a campy and theatrical feel. Womack emphasizes, however, that…
Beyond Continuance
Metis Identity and Literature
Published Native American Drama, 1970–2011
Recovering Jane Schoolcraft’s Cultural Activism in the Nineteenth Century
I ka ‘Ōlelo ke Ola, in Words Is Life
This article reflects on the history of Indigenous literature as well as its future prospects by focusing on the Hawaiian proverb I ka ‘ōlelo ke ola, i ka ‘ōlelo ka make, which means “in words is the power of life, in words is the power of death.” It traces the development of Indigenous literature from chants, songs, prayers, stories, histories, genealogies, and more, and the emergence of a whole new way of recording, remembering, studying, trans…
Decolonizing Indigenous Oratures and Literatures of Northern British North America and Canada (Beginnings to 1960)
Teaching Native Literature Responsibly in a Multiethnic Course
Francophone Aboriginal Literature in Quebec
Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of t…
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature
Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of t…
Ixtlamatiliztli/Knowledge with the Face
In his book of poetry Xochikoskatl, Natalio Hernández, a Nahua poet, novelist, essayist, and activist, makes numerous references to Nezahualcoyotl, Tenochtitlan, and “flower and song.” His poetic style resembles Miguel Ángel Garibay’s translations of the Cantares mexicanos. This chapter shows how Hernández’s poetry skillfully displaces the national narrative of the vanquished or vanishing Indian. It examines Hernández’s assertion that Nahua knowl…
Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies
Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies Daniel Heath Justice (bio) So much of the literature by Canada's Aboriginal writers is written against forgetting, against the obliterating narratives of conquest and progress and profit that have made the nation possible. These writers give us stories of dispossession, of the loss of land and language and identity, but they also, crucially, give us narratives of persistence and …
To Look upon Thousands
"To Look upon Thousands":Cherokee Transnationalism, at Home and Abroad Daniel Heath Justice (bio) "They are welcome . . . to look upon me as a strange creature. They see but one, and in return they give me an opportunity to look upon thousands." — Oukanekah/Ada Gal'kala1 Remembering Our Strengths The last few years have been trying ones for the Cherokee Nation, which has seen an alignment in its political orientation toward the troubling exclusiv…
Notes Toward a Theory of Anomaly
Recent laws against same-sex marriage in the Cherokee Nation provide the backdrop for this analysis of alternative models of Cherokee sexual diversity. Rather than seek identifiable historical precedent that is largely unavailable in the historical record and vehemently denied by the predominantly Baptist Cherokee majority, this essay argues instead for a modern queer Cherokee aesthetic that is both responsive to the contemporary experiences of g…
Heaven and Earth
Research Article| April 01 2010 HEAVEN AND EARTH: From the Guest Editors Daniel Heath Justice; Daniel Heath Justice Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bethany Schneider; Bethany Schneider Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mark Rifkin Mark Rifkin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Introduction
Other Words
We're Not There Yet, Kemo Sabe
Notes Toward a Theory of Anomaly
Recent laws against same-sex marriage in the Cherokee Nation provide the backdrop for this analysis of alternative models of Cherokee sexual diversity. Rather than seek identifiable historical precedent that is largely unavailable in the historical record and vehemently denied by the predominantly Baptist Cherokee majority, this essay argues instead for a modern queer Cherokee aesthetic that is both responsive to the contemporary experiences of g…
Heaven and Earth
Research Article| April 01 2010 HEAVEN AND EARTH: From the Guest Editors Daniel Heath Justice; Daniel Heath Justice Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bethany Schneider; Bethany Schneider Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mark Rifkin Mark Rifkin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
We're Not There Yet, Kemo Sabe
Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies
Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies Daniel Heath Justice (bio) So much of the literature by Canada's Aboriginal writers is written against forgetting, against the obliterating narratives of conquest and progress and profit that have made the nation possible. These writers give us stories of dispossession, of the loss of land and language and identity, but they also, crucially, give us narratives of persistence and …
Introduction
Rather than being focused on Indigenous biographies as such, this special issue of Biography was conceived by Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori), Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), and Noelani Arista (Kanaka Maoli) as a wide-ranging conversation among Indigenous scholars, writers, artists, and filmmakers about the ethics, relations, practices, and considerations of representing Indigenous lives. The introduction by Te Punga Somerville and Jus…
We're Not There Yet, Kemo Sabe
Other Words
Introduction
To Look upon Thousands
"To Look upon Thousands":Cherokee Transnationalism, at Home and Abroad Daniel Heath Justice (bio) "They are welcome . . . to look upon me as a strange creature. They see but one, and in return they give me an opportunity to look upon thousands." — Oukanekah/Ada Gal'kala1 Remembering Our Strengths The last few years have been trying ones for the Cherokee Nation, which has seen an alignment in its political orientation toward the troubling exclusiv…
Notes Toward a Theory of Anomaly
Recent laws against same-sex marriage in the Cherokee Nation provide the backdrop for this analysis of alternative models of Cherokee sexual diversity. Rather than seek identifiable historical precedent that is largely unavailable in the historical record and vehemently denied by the predominantly Baptist Cherokee majority, this essay argues instead for a modern queer Cherokee aesthetic that is both responsive to the contemporary experiences of g…
Heaven and Earth
Research Article| April 01 2010 HEAVEN AND EARTH: From the Guest Editors Daniel Heath Justice; Daniel Heath Justice Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bethany Schneider; Bethany Schneider Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mark Rifkin Mark Rifkin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-047 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies
Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies Daniel Heath Justice (bio) So much of the literature by Canada's Aboriginal writers is written against forgetting, against the obliterating narratives of conquest and progress and profit that have made the nation possible. These writers give us stories of dispossession, of the loss of land and language and identity, but they also, crucially, give us narratives of persistence and …
Indigenous Literature and Other Verbal Arts, Canada (1960–2012)
Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Spacemen
Among the many important arguments in his 1972 book, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Dakota legal scholar and philosopher Vine Deloria, Jr. posits a race of spacemen who created human society. Womack argues that contemporary scholars of Native literatures have overlooked these kinds of “kooky” claims in Deloria’s work. In God Is Red, Deloria’s discussion of aliens gives the book a campy and theatrical feel. Womack emphasizes, however, that…
Beyond Continuance
Metis Identity and Literature
Published Native American Drama, 1970–2011
Recovering Jane Schoolcraft’s Cultural Activism in the Nineteenth Century
I ka ‘Ōlelo ke Ola, in Words Is Life
This article reflects on the history of Indigenous literature as well as its future prospects by focusing on the Hawaiian proverb I ka ‘ōlelo ke ola, i ka ‘ōlelo ka make, which means “in words is the power of life, in words is the power of death.” It traces the development of Indigenous literature from chants, songs, prayers, stories, histories, genealogies, and more, and the emergence of a whole new way of recording, remembering, studying, trans…
Decolonizing Indigenous Oratures and Literatures of Northern British North America and Canada (Beginnings to 1960)
Teaching Native Literature Responsibly in a Multiethnic Course
Francophone Aboriginal Literature in Quebec
Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of t…
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature
Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of t…
Ixtlamatiliztli/Knowledge with the Face
In his book of poetry Xochikoskatl, Natalio Hernández, a Nahua poet, novelist, essayist, and activist, makes numerous references to Nezahualcoyotl, Tenochtitlan, and “flower and song.” His poetic style resembles Miguel Ángel Garibay’s translations of the Cantares mexicanos. This chapter shows how Hernández’s poetry skillfully displaces the national narrative of the vanquished or vanishing Indian. It examines Hernández’s assertion that Nahua knowl…
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
Introduction
Rather than being focused on Indigenous biographies as such, this special issue of Biography was conceived by Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori), Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), and Noelani Arista (Kanaka Maoli) as a wide-ranging conversation among Indigenous scholars, writers, artists, and filmmakers about the ethics, relations, practices, and considerations of representing Indigenous lives. The introduction by Te Punga Somerville and Jus…
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples. Challenges readers to critically consider & rethink assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics, never forgetting the emotional connections of our shared humanity & the transformative power of story.
Cherokee Dispossession Through Claimant Self-Declaration
Despite extensive and multigenerational efforts by the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes to educate the larger public about the sovereign right and authority of Cherokee governments to determine affiliation, well over a million unaffiliated and unsubstantiated American claimants still declare Cherokee heritage in official records, deforming public understanding and reinforcing dangerously anti-Native racial logics. This article considers…
John D. Loftin and Benjamin E. Frey, ‘People of Kituwah
John D. Loftin and Benjamin E. Frey, People of Kituwah: The Old Ways of the Eastern Cherokee (Oakland: University of California Press, 2024), xi + 286 pp., $34.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9780520400320
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