Jace Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jace Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jace |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dana Lloyd, Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites
Dana Lloyd, Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2024), 224 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-0700635894
Rethinking Indigenous Religious Traditions with Jace Weaver: A Discussion
This roundtable revolves around Jace Weaver’s article ‘“Either the Ball is Green, or the Ball is Not Green”’. Arguing that the field of Indigenous religious traditions has been both under-analyzed and under-theorized, Weaver rejects the facile statement that such traditions are those practiced by Indigenous groups or peoples. He sets forth seven definitional characteristics that create a rubric with which to test religious traditions. He then tes…
Unsettling the Settled: A Response
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The museum is a metaphor for modern Canada in another way. It began life in its present location in Gatineau, Quebec (formerly Hull) in 1989 as the Museum of Man. In 1990, it rejected the sexist name and assumed the triumphalist name Museum of Civilization. In 2013, the government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper changed the name yet again to t…
Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History
Gary Clayton Anderson, a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, has written about what was once known as the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862, most notably in Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux (1986) and Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 (1988; edited with Alan R. Woolworth). Yet he remained haunted by the “why” of those events. As he writes in his preface, “I failed to comprehend how such a t…
Bob Blackburn Duane King Neil MortonCherokee Nation: A History of Survival, Self Determination, and Identity
anticolonial Indian activist, Amma, takes center stage in the narrative, the telling of the tale is refracted through the perspective of Shrivastava’s mother, Surekha Sinha, herself a writer of “eight books” and “more than a thousand pieces of verse.” Yet Amma’s Daughters is also the book Surekha Sinha never wrote. The responsibility for writing that book fell to Surekha Sinha’s daughter, the academic Meenal Shrivastava. Drawing on her grandmothe…
Future Ethics: Science, Ethics, and Radical Hope in the Work of Daniel Wilson
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The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History
Assembling a collection of essays for an Oxford handbook that adequately covers the scope of its subject can prove a daunting task. Frederick E. Hoxie, in this impressive volume, renders the job even more difficult by considering history “defined broadly, as an enterprise taken up also by an array of talented people ranging from anthropologists, literary critics, and journalists to demographers, social critics, and artists” (pp. 2–3). The result …
"Shakespeare among the "Salvages: The Bard in Red Atlantic Performance
This essay looks at theatre and performance in the Red Atlantic (a concept developed by the author that re-centers Atlantic world history on the Indigenes of the western hemisphere). Specifically, it looks at the imbrications between the Red Atlantic and the works of William Shakespeare. In Red Atlantic theatre Natives were initially simply objects of representation; later, they interacted with Shakespeare's works as audience, performers, and ult…
Native American Studies: Where We Are, Where We're Headed
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jace Weaver; Native American Studies: Where We Are, Where We're Headed. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 2011; 35 (1): 59–60. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.35.1.j065647p7n0t7615 Download citation file: Ris (Zote…
The Red Atlantic: Transoceanic Cultural Exchanges
The Red Atlantic:Transoceanic Cultural Exchanges Jace Weaver (bio) O, Wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't. Shakespeare, The Tempest, 5.1 I. Prologue The roots of Georgia, the place where I have plied my trade for the past nine years, were planted long ago and far away across the Atlantic Ocean. That is hardly surprising. James Oglethorpe, its founder, was born in Lo…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Guest Editor's Introduction Jace Weaver (bio) A few years ago, when I joined the Board of AIQ, Amanda Cobb, the new editor, asked me to write a "state-of-the-field" piece. I am asked to do such articles with some regularity—one marker, I guess, that I am now officially an "elder" in the field—but I always resist. On the one hand, it seems to me presumptuous. AI/NAS is rich and varied, ranging from archaeology, to ethnobotany, to public health, an…
Notes from a Miner's Canary: Essays on the State of Native America
"The title of this lively collection of Jace Weaver's essays comes from Felix Cohen, the great authority on American Indian law: The Indian plays much the same role in our American society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poisonous gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, marks the rise and fall of our demo…
New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations
Book Review| October 01 2008 New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong. Jace Weaver Jace Weaver Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 28 (1): 119–120. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501889 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
More Light Than Heat: The Current State of Native American Studies
More Light Than HeatThe Current State of Native American Studies Jace Weaver (bio) On a cold November Sunday in 1786, Francis Asbury preached in Maryland. Describing his sermon and the church in which he had delivered it, the great Methodist bishop and circuit rider wrote laconically in his journal, "I preached at Cambridge, on 'We preach Christ crucified,' &c little light, and less heat."1 When Amanda Cobb asked me, as a new member on the Americ…
Indigenousness and Indigeneity
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Postcolonial Problem Indigeneity and the Semiotic Field Conclusion
Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo, and: The Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of the Kennewick Man, and: Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology…
The Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Manby Roger Downey. Springer-Verlag, 2000
The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years
Journal Article The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years Get access Cowger Thomas W., The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiii, 217 pp. $45.00. Jace Weaver Jace Weaver Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.…
Assimilation, Apocalypticism, and Reform (1900—1967)
The last massacre of Indians in the United States occurred on February 26, 1911, at Rabbit Creek, near Winnemucca, Nevada. Five months later, Ishi (Yahi), “the last wild Indian,” was discovered outside an abattoir near Oro ville, California, and on September 4 he took up residence at the University of California Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley. Ishi expired of respiratory failure on March 25, 1916. The last survivor of the Rabbit Creek Massacr…
Conclusion: Anger Times Imagination
Subject Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Indian Literary Renaissance and the Continuing Search for Community (1968—)
The signal event in Native literature came in 1968 with the publication of House Made of Dawn by Natachee Momaday’s son, N. Scott Momaday. After the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, it was as if floodgates had been opened, and through them poured a steady stream of books by Natives. As Paula Gunn Allen puts it, ‘‘As the last quarter of the century has unfolded, the tiny trickle of fiction begun by Native writers during the first seventy year…
Epigraph
Subject Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
Native American Literatures and Communitism
If you can survive in today’s society and maintain your soul self, and if you can do these things and know who you are as a person, you are a true warrior. Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) has written, “The following statement, ‘All existence is meaningless: is actually full of meaning; that is the irony of language. The act of stating what is, inevitably reminds us of what is not. Language forces meaning into existence. All barriers yield to languag…
Occom’s Razor and Ridge’s Masquerade (18th-19th Century)
Did Samson Occom shave? His portrait shows no hint of shadow. In his depiction, he resembles nothing so much as an ever so slightly dusky Dr. Johnson. Occom’s implement of the title refers, in this case, neither to a straight-edged blade nor to the rule of logic and theology but to the precise, careful, subtle, and razorlike manner in which he employed the only tools at his disposal, a shrewd intellect and a gift with words, in order to promote c…
Indian Lives: A Photographic Record from the Civil War to Wounded Knee
That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community
In this book Weaver looks at Native American literature in order to reflect on Native American values and spirituality. In 500 years of contact and colonization Christianity has been unable to displace traditional religious beliefs and practice, Weaver notes, and even among Indians who consider themselves Christian, traditional ways are often still important and honored. Many practise syncretism and religious dimorphism, religious pluralism that …
More Light Than Heat: The Current State of Native American Studies
More Light Than HeatThe Current State of Native American Studies Jace Weaver (bio) On a cold November Sunday in 1786, Francis Asbury preached in Maryland. Describing his sermon and the church in which he had delivered it, the great Methodist bishop and circuit rider wrote laconically in his journal, "I preached at Cambridge, on 'We preach Christ crucified,' &c little light, and less heat."1 When Amanda Cobb asked me, as a new member on the Americ…
The Red Atlantic: Transoceanic Cultural Exchanges
The Red Atlantic:Transoceanic Cultural Exchanges Jace Weaver (bio) O, Wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't. Shakespeare, The Tempest, 5.1 I. Prologue The roots of Georgia, the place where I have plied my trade for the past nine years, were planted long ago and far away across the Atlantic Ocean. That is hardly surprising. James Oglethorpe, its founder, was born in Lo…
The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History
Assembling a collection of essays for an Oxford handbook that adequately covers the scope of its subject can prove a daunting task. Frederick E. Hoxie, in this impressive volume, renders the job even more difficult by considering history “defined broadly, as an enterprise taken up also by an array of talented people ranging from anthropologists, literary critics, and journalists to demographers, social critics, and artists” (pp. 2–3). The result …
Ethnic Cleansing, Homestyle
It is a commonplace that all art tells more about the artist and the era in which he or she lives than about the subject or the period depicted. Nowhere is this more true than in popular entertainment forms. This article will examine images of the continent's indigenous peoples in the American musical, both stage and motion picture, from its inception to the present. In the process, it will examine both positive portrayals as well as the far more…
Then to the Rock Let Me Fly: Luther Bohanon and Judicial Activism
Journal Article Then to the Rock Let Me Fly: Luther Bohanoi and Judicial Activism. By Jace Weaver. (Nor man: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993 xviii, 212 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8061-2554-3.) Get access Phillip J. Cooper Phillip J. Cooper University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1828–1829, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Original Simplicities and Present Complexities: Reinhold Niebuhr, Ethnocentrism, and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Original Simplicities and Present Complexities: Reinhold Niebuhr, Ethnocentrism, and the Myth of American Exceptionalism Get access Jace Weaver Jace Weaver JACE WEAVER is a lawyer and a Ph.D candidate at Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, where he also teaches Native American studies. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXIII, Issu…
Assimilation, Apocalypticism, and Reform (1900—1967)
The last massacre of Indians in the United States occurred on February 26, 1911, at Rabbit Creek, near Winnemucca, Nevada. Five months later, Ishi (Yahi), “the last wild Indian,” was discovered outside an abattoir near Oro ville, California, and on September 4 he took up residence at the University of California Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley. Ishi expired of respiratory failure on March 25, 1916. The last survivor of the Rabbit Creek Massacr…
Conclusion: Anger Times Imagination
Subject Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Indian Literary Renaissance and the Continuing Search for Community (1968—)
The signal event in Native literature came in 1968 with the publication of House Made of Dawn by Natachee Momaday’s son, N. Scott Momaday. After the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, it was as if floodgates had been opened, and through them poured a steady stream of books by Natives. As Paula Gunn Allen puts it, ‘‘As the last quarter of the century has unfolded, the tiny trickle of fiction begun by Native writers during the first seventy year…
Epigraph
Subject Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
Native American Literatures and Communitism
If you can survive in today’s society and maintain your soul self, and if you can do these things and know who you are as a person, you are a true warrior. Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) has written, “The following statement, ‘All existence is meaningless: is actually full of meaning; that is the irony of language. The act of stating what is, inevitably reminds us of what is not. Language forces meaning into existence. All barriers yield to languag…
Occom’s Razor and Ridge’s Masquerade (18th-19th Century)
Did Samson Occom shave? His portrait shows no hint of shadow. In his depiction, he resembles nothing so much as an ever so slightly dusky Dr. Johnson. Occom’s implement of the title refers, in this case, neither to a straight-edged blade nor to the rule of logic and theology but to the precise, careful, subtle, and razorlike manner in which he employed the only tools at his disposal, a shrewd intellect and a gift with words, in order to promote c…
Indian Lives: A Photographic Record from the Civil War to Wounded Knee
Indian Presence with No Indians Present: NAGPRA and Its Discontents
Although wrongs have been done me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts. These young men, when I call them into the lodge and talk with them, they listen to me and mind what I say. Now we are again together to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends advise me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lo…
Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel
In this collection of eleven linked stories, Gerald Vizenor brings back one of his most popular characters, Almost Browne, in full trickster force. Born in the back of a hatchback, almost on the White Earth Reservation, the crossblood storyteller sells blank books - some autographed (by him) with such names as Isaac Singer, Geoffrey Chaucer, N. Scott Momaday, and Jesus Christ; projects laser demons over the reservation; lectures in the Transethni…
Native American Authors and Their Communities
or too many non-Native scholars, the only genuine Indian literature is oral myths. Literature ceases to be Indian when it employs Western forms such as the short story or the novel. Yet, is this really true, or does something about the literature remain somehow Indian despite its form? What real difference is there between the rant and roll poetry of John Trudell (Santee Dakota), the theo-political writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Siou…
Remnants of the First Earth
That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community
In this book Weaver looks at Native American literature in order to reflect on Native American values and spirituality. In 500 years of contact and colonization Christianity has been unable to displace traditional religious beliefs and practice, Weaver notes, and even among Indians who consider themselves Christian, traditional ways are often still important and honored. Many practise syncretism and religious dimorphism, religious pluralism that …
The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years
Journal Article The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years Get access Cowger Thomas W., The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiii, 217 pp. $45.00. Jace Weaver Jace Weaver Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.…
Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo, and: The Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of the Kennewick Man, and: Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology…
The Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Manby Roger Downey. Springer-Verlag, 2000
Indigenousness and Indigeneity
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Postcolonial Problem Indigeneity and the Semiotic Field Conclusion
More Light Than Heat: The Current State of Native American Studies
More Light Than HeatThe Current State of Native American Studies Jace Weaver (bio) On a cold November Sunday in 1786, Francis Asbury preached in Maryland. Describing his sermon and the church in which he had delivered it, the great Methodist bishop and circuit rider wrote laconically in his journal, "I preached at Cambridge, on 'We preach Christ crucified,' &c little light, and less heat."1 When Amanda Cobb asked me, as a new member on the Americ…
New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations
Book Review| October 01 2008 New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong. Jace Weaver Jace Weaver Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 28 (1): 119–120. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501889 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Notes from a Miner's Canary: Essays on the State of Native America
"The title of this lively collection of Jace Weaver's essays comes from Felix Cohen, the great authority on American Indian law: The Indian plays much the same role in our American society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poisonous gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, marks the rise and fall of our demo…
Native American Studies: Where We Are, Where We're Headed
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jace Weaver; Native American Studies: Where We Are, Where We're Headed. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 2011; 35 (1): 59–60. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.35.1.j065647p7n0t7615 Download citation file: Ris (Zote…
The Red Atlantic: Transoceanic Cultural Exchanges
The Red Atlantic:Transoceanic Cultural Exchanges Jace Weaver (bio) O, Wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't. Shakespeare, The Tempest, 5.1 I. Prologue The roots of Georgia, the place where I have plied my trade for the past nine years, were planted long ago and far away across the Atlantic Ocean. That is hardly surprising. James Oglethorpe, its founder, was born in Lo…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Guest Editor's Introduction Jace Weaver (bio) A few years ago, when I joined the Board of AIQ, Amanda Cobb, the new editor, asked me to write a "state-of-the-field" piece. I am asked to do such articles with some regularity—one marker, I guess, that I am now officially an "elder" in the field—but I always resist. On the one hand, it seems to me presumptuous. AI/NAS is rich and varied, ranging from archaeology, to ethnobotany, to public health, an…
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