Devon A Mihesuah
Biographic Data
| ID | 401354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devon A Mihesuah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devon A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mihesuah |
| SIGNATURE | MIHESUAH D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Becoming Insane: The Death of Arch Wolfe at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
No abstract available
Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry, Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City
Searching for Haknip Achukma (Good Health): Challenges to Food Sovereignty Initiatives in Oklahoma
In the last three decades, tribes have initiated numerous food projects, including seed distribution, farmers' markets, cattle and bison ranching, and community and school gardens. These enterprises are steps towards achieving what many food activists refer to as "food sovereignty," that is, tribal self-sufficiency and the ability to supply nutritious and affordable foods to tribal members. As many food activists have discovered, food production …
Diabetes in Indian Territory: Revisiting Kelly M. West's Theory of 1940
The late Kelly M. West, also known as the “father of diabetes epidemiology,” asserted in his 1974 essay, “Diabetes in American Indians and Other Native Populations of the New World,” that diabetes was extremely rare among Oklahoma Indians prior to 1940. He used no ethnohistorical data, instead basing his conclusions on the absence of the word “diabetes” in medical records and in interviews he claimed to have conducted with Oklahoma Indians. Yet t…
Indigenous Health Initiatives, Frybread, and the Marketing of Nontraditional "Traditional" American Indian Foods
Indigenous Health Initiatives, Frybread, and the Marketing of Nontraditional "Traditional" American Indian Foods Devon Mihesuah (bio) Frybread, the staple of our Native Culture. Yep it just wouldn't be a perfect meal without it! —anonymous comment on navajofrybread.com, september 24, 2012 I am so glad to shout from the rooftops that "Frybread" is not "our" Indigenous food and I hate that we have allowed it a place of reverence in our communities.…
Sustenance and Health among the Five Tribes in Indian Territory, Postremoval to Statehood
In response to white settlers' demands for tribal lands in the southeast, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The "Five Tribes"-Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Muscogees (Creeks), and Seminoles-were then forced to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Natives had access to a vast array of fruits, vegetables, and game meats, and until the Civil War, their health problems appeared to be maladies such as wounds, parasites, contagious disease…
Choosing America's Heroes and Villains: Lessons Learned from the Execution of Silon Lewis
In early November 1894, full-blood Choctaw Silon Lewis and his wife, Sally, arrived at Wilburton, Indian Territory, a town named after Will Burton, one of the contractors who built the Choctaw, Oklahoma, and Gulf Railroad (that later was renamed the Rock Island Railroad) in the 1890s. Located to the north of the Ouachita Mountains in lush, green, tree-covered hills, Wilburton was once the location of coal mines and is the closest town to Robber's…
Indigenizing the academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities
Native American scholars reflect on issues related to academic study by students drawn from the indigenous peoples of America. Topics range from problems of racism and ethnic fraud in academic hiring to how indigenous values and perspectives can be integrated into research methodologies and interpretive theories.
Finding Empowerment through Writing and Reading, or Why Am I Doing This: An Unpopular Writer's Comments about the State of American Indian Literary Criticism
In late 1998 I became editor of the American Indian Quarterly. A year or so later I realized that unless I put a stop to repetitive and basically uninformative literature submissions, then I would continue to drown in paper. Destroying trees in order to print tiresome essays is one thing, but I also became worried that American Indian literary criticism threatened to take over the whole of Indigenous studies. Indeed, instead of scholars deciding …
Decolonizing Our Diets By Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens
A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities
As the editor of H-AmIndian, a joint project between the History Department at Arizona State University and the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online housed at Michigan State University, I have discovered that discussion threads go in cycles. Sometimes the listserv has a lively exchange of ideas between scholars on the subjects of American Indian history, culture, ideas, and professional behavior. Inexplicitly, for stretches…
Introduction: Native Student, Faculty, and Staff Experiences in the Ivory Tower
On July 1, 2003, I sent out the following ad on a variety of listservs read by hundreds of Natives and non-Natives involved in Native studies: Because of the numbers of Natives (and many of our allies) who have found themselves in tough situations in academia because of their political views, teaching styles, and quite simply, because of their race and/or gender, the American Indian Quarterly is seeking submissions for the forthcoming special iss…
Activism and Apathy: The Prices We Pay for Both
Interesting changes are happening right now in Indigenous studies. There are more Natives than ever before in universities, and they are starting to challenge the status quo. A lot of us have been demanding that scholars make their works useful instead of repetitive. We ask that writers of Indigenous histories and cultures use Native voices and opinions. We want Native concerns to be at the forefront of Native studies instead of simply writing ab…
Basic Empowering Strategies for the Classroom
I have been teaching about Native history and culture since 1988, while I was still in graduate school and after I had completed most of my PhD requirements. I was allowed to teach first-year American history classes and to guest lecture in the American Indian History Survey course while I studied for my comprehensive oral and written exams. In retrospect, it is clear that teaching helped me to study and pass my exams, but teaching others also ta…
Indigenous Scholars versus the Status Quo
This essay, written by activist Indigenous scholars Devon A. Mihesuah and Angela Cavender Wilson, was submitted on 1 July to The Chronicle of Higher Education. It was immediately rejected with no explanation other than, "We appreciate your submitting an article to The Chronicle and regret that we are unable to publish it. Because The Chronicle is a weekly paper, we can use only a few of the hundreds of manuscripts—many of them very good—that are …
LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life
Book Review| April 01 2001 LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life, H. Henrietta Stockel. Devon A. Mihesuah Devon A. Mihesuah Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (3): 180–181. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502739 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Devon A. Mihesuah; LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life.…
Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains
Journal Article Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Get access Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Edited by Mihesuah Devon A.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. viii + 335 pp. Appendix, notes, index. $20.00, paper; £13.50, paper.) Nancy Shoemaker Nancy Shoemaker University of Connecticut at Storrs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
A Few Cautions at the Millennium on the Merging of Feminist Studies with American Indian Women's Studies
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175522?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism & Culture
American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual Choices and Development
How Indianness is defined by American Indians' and non-Indians, who claims to be Indian and why, and the anxieties among multi-heritage Indians are complex historical and present-day issues. While the politics of identity and the life experiences of Indians have been addressed more in recent years by scholars, activists, and novelists, there is little research addressing how and why American Indians make their identity choices
Commonalty of Difference: American Indian Women and History
Devon A. Mihesuah, Commonalty of Difference: American Indian Women and History, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, Special Issue: Writing about (Writing about) American Indians (Winter, 1996), pp. 15-27
Voices, Interpretations, and the 'New Indian History: Comment on the "American Indian Quarterly's" Special Issue on Writing about American Indians
Devon A. Mihesuah, Voices, Interpretations, and the 'New Indian History': Comment on the "American Indian Quarterly's" Special Issue on Writing about American Indians, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, Special Issue: Writing about (Writing about) American Indians (Winter, 1996), pp. 91-108
American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences
Devon A. Mihesuah, American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Spring, 1996), pp. 229-237
American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
Journal Article American Indian Children at School, 1850–1930. By Michael C. Coleman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi and Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851–1909. By Devon A. Mihesuah. Urbana: University of Illinois Press Get access Clara Sue Kidwell Clara Sue Kidwell Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
Indigenizing the academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities
Native American scholars reflect on issues related to academic study by students drawn from the indigenous peoples of America. Topics range from problems of racism and ethnic fraud in academic hiring to how indigenous values and perspectives can be integrated into research methodologies and interpretive theories.
Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains
Journal Article Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Get access Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Edited by Mihesuah Devon A.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. viii + 335 pp. Appendix, notes, index. $20.00, paper; £13.50, paper.) Nancy Shoemaker Nancy Shoemaker University of Connecticut at Storrs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences
Devon A. Mihesuah, American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Spring, 1996), pp. 229-237
Commonalty of Difference: American Indian Women and History
Devon A. Mihesuah, Commonalty of Difference: American Indian Women and History, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, Special Issue: Writing about (Writing about) American Indians (Winter, 1996), pp. 15-27
Decolonizing Our Diets By Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens
Suggested Guidelines for Institutions with Scholars Who Conduct Research on American Indians
Since contact, non-Indians have been fascinated with American Indians, and they continue to explore almost every aspect of Indians’ cultures and physiologies. Library shelves contain vast collections of books with American Indian themes. The majority of books and articles, in addition to movies, television shows, and documentaries, have been written and produced by non-Indians (some of whom attempt to pass themselves off as Indians) who have been…
Indigenous Scholars versus the Status Quo
This essay, written by activist Indigenous scholars Devon A. Mihesuah and Angela Cavender Wilson, was submitted on 1 July to The Chronicle of Higher Education. It was immediately rejected with no explanation other than, "We appreciate your submitting an article to The Chronicle and regret that we are unable to publish it. Because The Chronicle is a weekly paper, we can use only a few of the hundreds of manuscripts—many of them very good—that are …
American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual Choices and Development
How Indianness is defined by American Indians' and non-Indians, who claims to be Indian and why, and the anxieties among multi-heritage Indians are complex historical and present-day issues. While the politics of identity and the life experiences of Indians have been addressed more in recent years by scholars, activists, and novelists, there is little research addressing how and why American Indians make their identity choices
Tribal Colleges: Shaping the Future of Native America
Introduction: Native Student, Faculty, and Staff Experiences in the Ivory Tower
On July 1, 2003, I sent out the following ad on a variety of listservs read by hundreds of Natives and non-Natives involved in Native studies: Because of the numbers of Natives (and many of our allies) who have found themselves in tough situations in academia because of their political views, teaching styles, and quite simply, because of their race and/or gender, the American Indian Quarterly is seeking submissions for the forthcoming special iss…
Too Dark to Be Angels: The Class System among the Cherokees at the Female Seminary
The Cherokee Female Seminary was a nondenomnational boarding school established by the Cherokee Nation at Park Hill, Indian Territory, in order to provide high-quality education for the young women of its tribe. The curriculum was based on that of Mount Holyoke Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and it offered no courses focusing on Cherokee culture. The seminary first opened in 1851, but in 1887, it was destroyed by fire. Two years later, …
Searching for Haknip Achukma (Good Health): Challenges to Food Sovereignty Initiatives in Oklahoma
In the last three decades, tribes have initiated numerous food projects, including seed distribution, farmers' markets, cattle and bison ranching, and community and school gardens. These enterprises are steps towards achieving what many food activists refer to as "food sovereignty," that is, tribal self-sufficiency and the ability to supply nutritious and affordable foods to tribal members. As many food activists have discovered, food production …
Indigenous Health Initiatives, Frybread, and the Marketing of Nontraditional "Traditional" American Indian Foods
Indigenous Health Initiatives, Frybread, and the Marketing of Nontraditional "Traditional" American Indian Foods Devon Mihesuah (bio) Frybread, the staple of our Native Culture. Yep it just wouldn't be a perfect meal without it! —anonymous comment on navajofrybread.com, september 24, 2012 I am so glad to shout from the rooftops that "Frybread" is not "our" Indigenous food and I hate that we have allowed it a place of reverence in our communities.…
A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities
As the editor of H-AmIndian, a joint project between the History Department at Arizona State University and the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online housed at Michigan State University, I have discovered that discussion threads go in cycles. Sometimes the listserv has a lively exchange of ideas between scholars on the subjects of American Indian history, culture, ideas, and professional behavior. Inexplicitly, for stretches…
Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles
Finding Empowerment through Writing and Reading, or Why Am I Doing This: An Unpopular Writer's Comments about the State of American Indian Literary Criticism
In late 1998 I became editor of the American Indian Quarterly. A year or so later I realized that unless I put a stop to repetitive and basically uninformative literature submissions, then I would continue to drown in paper. Destroying trees in order to print tiresome essays is one thing, but I also became worried that American Indian literary criticism threatened to take over the whole of Indigenous studies. Indeed, instead of scholars deciding …
Activism and Apathy: The Prices We Pay for Both
Interesting changes are happening right now in Indigenous studies. There are more Natives than ever before in universities, and they are starting to challenge the status quo. A lot of us have been demanding that scholars make their works useful instead of repetitive. We ask that writers of Indigenous histories and cultures use Native voices and opinions. We want Native concerns to be at the forefront of Native studies instead of simply writing ab…
Basic Empowering Strategies for the Classroom
I have been teaching about Native history and culture since 1988, while I was still in graduate school and after I had completed most of my PhD requirements. I was allowed to teach first-year American history classes and to guest lecture in the American Indian History Survey course while I studied for my comprehensive oral and written exams. In retrospect, it is clear that teaching helped me to study and pass my exams, but teaching others also ta…
Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
The Plains of North America and Their Inhabitants
Journal Article The Plains of North America and Their Inhabitants. By Richard Irving Dodge. Ed. by Wayne R. Kime. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989. 477 pp. $60.00.) Get access Devon A. Mihesuah Devon A. Mihesuah Northern Arizona University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 1045, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079078 Published: 01 Decem…
The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles
Champions of the Cherokees: Evan and John B. Jones
Journal Article Champions of the Cherokees: Evan and John B. Jones Get access Champions of the Cherokees: Evan and John B. Jones. By McLoughlin William. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xiv + 498 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes, index. $39.50.) Devon A. Mihesuah Devon A. Mihesuah Northern Arizona University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 22…
"Out of the "Graves of the Polluted Debauches: The Boys of the Cherokee Male Seminary
Too Dark to Be Angels: The Class System among the Cherokees at the Female Seminary
The Cherokee Female Seminary was a nondenomnational boarding school established by the Cherokee Nation at Park Hill, Indian Territory, in order to provide high-quality education for the young women of its tribe. The curriculum was based on that of Mount Holyoke Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and it offered no courses focusing on Cherokee culture. The seminary first opened in 1851, but in 1887, it was destroyed by fire. Two years later, …
Tribal Colleges: Shaping the Future of Native America
Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
Journal Article Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851–1909 Get access Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851–1909. By Mihesuah Devon A.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. xii + 212 pp. Illustrations, map, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $35.95.) Nancy Shoemaker Nancy Shoemaker Texas Christian University Search for other works by thi…
Suggested Guidelines for Institutions with Scholars Who Conduct Research on American Indians
Since contact, non-Indians have been fascinated with American Indians, and they continue to explore almost every aspect of Indians’ cultures and physiologies. Library shelves contain vast collections of books with American Indian themes. The majority of books and articles, in addition to movies, television shows, and documentaries, have been written and produced by non-Indians (some of whom attempt to pass themselves off as Indians) who have been…
American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
Journal Article American Indian Children at School, 1850–1930. By Michael C. Coleman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi and Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851–1909. By Devon A. Mihesuah. Urbana: University of Illinois Press Get access Clara Sue Kidwell Clara Sue Kidwell Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
Commonalty of Difference: American Indian Women and History
Devon A. Mihesuah, Commonalty of Difference: American Indian Women and History, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, Special Issue: Writing about (Writing about) American Indians (Winter, 1996), pp. 15-27
Voices, Interpretations, and the 'New Indian History: Comment on the "American Indian Quarterly's" Special Issue on Writing about American Indians
Devon A. Mihesuah, Voices, Interpretations, and the 'New Indian History': Comment on the "American Indian Quarterly's" Special Issue on Writing about American Indians, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, Special Issue: Writing about (Writing about) American Indians (Winter, 1996), pp. 91-108
American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences
Devon A. Mihesuah, American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Spring, 1996), pp. 229-237
American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual Choices and Development
How Indianness is defined by American Indians' and non-Indians, who claims to be Indian and why, and the anxieties among multi-heritage Indians are complex historical and present-day issues. While the politics of identity and the life experiences of Indians have been addressed more in recent years by scholars, activists, and novelists, there is little research addressing how and why American Indians make their identity choices
The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism & Culture
A Few Cautions at the Millennium on the Merging of Feminist Studies with American Indian Women's Studies
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175522?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life
Book Review| April 01 2001 LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life, H. Henrietta Stockel. Devon A. Mihesuah Devon A. Mihesuah Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (3): 180–181. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502739 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Devon A. Mihesuah; LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life.…
Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains
Journal Article Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Get access Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Edited by Mihesuah Devon A.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. viii + 335 pp. Appendix, notes, index. $20.00, paper; £13.50, paper.) Nancy Shoemaker Nancy Shoemaker University of Connecticut at Storrs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
Indigenous Scholars versus the Status Quo
This essay, written by activist Indigenous scholars Devon A. Mihesuah and Angela Cavender Wilson, was submitted on 1 July to The Chronicle of Higher Education. It was immediately rejected with no explanation other than, "We appreciate your submitting an article to The Chronicle and regret that we are unable to publish it. Because The Chronicle is a weekly paper, we can use only a few of the hundreds of manuscripts—many of them very good—that are …
Decolonizing Our Diets By Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens
A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities
As the editor of H-AmIndian, a joint project between the History Department at Arizona State University and the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online housed at Michigan State University, I have discovered that discussion threads go in cycles. Sometimes the listserv has a lively exchange of ideas between scholars on the subjects of American Indian history, culture, ideas, and professional behavior. Inexplicitly, for stretches…
Introduction: Native Student, Faculty, and Staff Experiences in the Ivory Tower
On July 1, 2003, I sent out the following ad on a variety of listservs read by hundreds of Natives and non-Natives involved in Native studies: Because of the numbers of Natives (and many of our allies) who have found themselves in tough situations in academia because of their political views, teaching styles, and quite simply, because of their race and/or gender, the American Indian Quarterly is seeking submissions for the forthcoming special iss…
Activism and Apathy: The Prices We Pay for Both
Interesting changes are happening right now in Indigenous studies. There are more Natives than ever before in universities, and they are starting to challenge the status quo. A lot of us have been demanding that scholars make their works useful instead of repetitive. We ask that writers of Indigenous histories and cultures use Native voices and opinions. We want Native concerns to be at the forefront of Native studies instead of simply writing ab…
Basic Empowering Strategies for the Classroom
I have been teaching about Native history and culture since 1988, while I was still in graduate school and after I had completed most of my PhD requirements. I was allowed to teach first-year American history classes and to guest lecture in the American Indian History Survey course while I studied for my comprehensive oral and written exams. In retrospect, it is clear that teaching helped me to study and pass my exams, but teaching others also ta…
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