volume 22 . number 1 . spring 2010 Studies in American Indian Literatures editors james h. cox, University of Texas at Austin daniel heath justice, University of Toronto Published by the University of Nebraska Press The editors thank the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of To- ronto and the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English at the Uni- versity of Texas for their fi nancial support. subscriptions Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL ISSN 0730-3238) is the only schol- arly journal in the United States that focuses exclusively on American Indian lit- eratures. SAIL is published quarterly by the University of Nebraska Press for the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL). Subscription rates are $38 for individuals and $95 for institutions. Single issues are available for $22. For subscriptions outside the United States, please add $30. Canadian subscribers please add appropriate GST or HST. 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Submissions should be sent directly to Daniel Heath Justice at [email protected] Rights to the articles are held by the individual contributors. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Excerpts from The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie, © 1992 Sherman Alexie, are reprinted here by permission of Hanging Loose Press. Excerpts from A Radiant Curve by Luci Tapahonso, © 2008 Luci Tapahonso, are reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press. If you would like to reprint material from SAIL, please query for permission us- ing our online form located under the journals menu heading on our Web site: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu. SAIL is available online through Project MUSE at http://muse.jhu.edu. Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Anthropological Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, ERIC Databases, IBR: In- ternational Bibliography of Book Reviews, IBZ: International Bibliography of Peri- odical Literature, MLA International Bibliography, and TOC Premier. Cover: Photo courtesy of Bonita Bent-Nelson © 2003, design by Kimberly Hermsen Interior: Kimberly Hermsen general editors James H. Cox (Production) and Daniel Heath Justice (Submissions) book review editor P. Jane Hafen creative works editors Joseph Bruchac and LeAnne Howe editorial board Chad Allen, Lisa Brooks, Robin Riley Fast, Susan Gardner, Patrice Hollrah, Molly McGlennen, Margaret Noori, Kenneth Roemer, Lisa Tatonetti, Christopher Teuton, and Jace Weaver editorial assistants Bryan Russell and Kyle Carsten Wyatt editors emeritus Helen Jaskoski, Karl Kroeber, Robert M. Nelson, Malea Powell, John Purdy, and Rodney Simard contents vii From the Editors articles 1 A Necessary Inclusion: Native Literature in Native Studies renate eigenbrod 20 The Marriage of Mother and Father: Michif Infl uences as Expressions of Métis Intellectual Sovereignty in Stories of the Road Allowance People mareike neuhaus 49 The Politics of the Camera: Visual Storytelling and Sovereignty in Victor Masayesva’s Itam Hakim, Hopiit channette romero 76 Alexie’s Nutshell: Mousetraps and Interpenetrations of The Business of Fancydancing and Hamlet blake m. hausman poetry 113 romanticizing warriorhood keith l. camacho book reviews 118 Kirstin C. Erickson. Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity david martínez 121 Eric Gansworth. A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings susan bernardin 125 Luci Tapahonso. A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories esther belin 128 Jacqueline Shea Murphy. The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories patrice hollrah 132 Jordana Finnegan. Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory gregory wright 135 Contributor Biographies 137 Major Tribal Nations and Bands from the editors It is my good fortune to have as a colleague at the University of Texas at Austin Professor Loriene Roy. Professor Roy teaches in UT’s School of Information and recently completed a term as president of the American Library Association. She also runs “If I Can I Read, I Can Do Anything,” a reading club for Native American children (http:// www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ifican/). On April 15, 2010, representatives of “If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything” and readergirlz, GuysLitWire, and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) will deliver thousands of donated books to Native American teens at res- ervation schools. “Operation Book Drop 2010” is spotlighting six- teen Native American authors, including some of ASAIL’s favorites: Sherman Alexie, Joseph Bruchac, Louise Erdrich, Patricia Grace, Joy Harjo, Winona LaDuke, Larry Loyie, Dimi Macheras, Lurline Wai- lana McGregor, Joseph Medicine Crow, Simon Ortiz, Cynthia Leit- ich Smith, Chad Solomon, Robert Sullivan, Luci Tapahonso, and Tim Tingle. For information about the event, please go to http:// www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ifican/otbd_index.html. The Web site lists the schools that are already enrolled in the program and, at the bot- tom, provides instructions for nominating other schools. This issue again brings together a rich collection of texts from multiple Indigenous worlds. These worlds are geographically dis- tant but united by the creative writers and scholars who honor the Indigenous artistic and political expression that emerge from each one. Keith Camacho brings us a Chamorro voice from 1521 in his poem “romanticizing warriorhood.” This eyewitness to the arrival viii sail · spring 2010 · vol. 22, no. 1 of Magellan watches as Antonio Pigafetta, a member of Magellan’s crew, walks away assuming, incorrectly, that the poem’s narrator and his family and friends have suffered fatal spear wounds. Renate Eigenbrod argues in her essay that Aboriginal literatures must have a place in Native Studies programs in Canada. Native Studies dis- ciplinary perspectives, in turn, have much to teach about method- ology and pedagogy to departments of English. Chanette Romero’s article on Hopi photographer Victor Masayesva’s film takes us to the Hopi Nation. Romero considers Masayesva’s ambivalence about, his desire for but suspicion of, filmic representations of the Hopis as well as his reclamation and recontextualization of non-Native images of the Hopis. Mareike Neuhaus discusses ancestral languages and discourse conventions in Indigenous writing in English with a specific focus on Maria Campbell’s Michif (Cree and French) Eng- lish, while Blake M. Hausman responds to Quentin Youngberg’s recent SAIL essay on Sherman Alexie’s interpenetration of queer and Native spheres in his film The Business of Fancydancing by reading the film’s additional interpenetration of the Shakespearean sphere. Hausman describes specifically how Alexie’s riffs on Hamlet catch the conscience of the film’s audience. We hope, as always, that you enjoy the articles and creative work in your new issue of SAIL. James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice A Necessary Inclusion Native Literature in Native Studies renate eigenbrod I must emphasize that a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary schol- arship gained in fields such as Native Studies can only enhance the study of Aboriginal Literatures. Emma LaRocque, “Teaching Aboriginal Literature: The Discourse of Margins and Mainstream” Native writers of poetry, prose fiction, and nonfiction speak to the living realities of struggle and possibility among Indigenous peo- ples; they challenge both Natives and non-Natives to surrender ste- reotypes, committing ourselves instead to untangling colonialism from our minds, spirits, and bodies. Daniel Heath Justice, “Conjuring Marks: Furthering Indigenous Empowerment through Literature” The two epigraphs to this article highlight two main arguments made in my discussion: teaching and researching Native litera- tures within the disciplinary context of