In American Sāmoa, lines are being drawn between immigrants from Western Sāmoa, Tonga and the Philippines, and the indigenous population. A close study of the 2007 Future Political Status report, as ...well as the responses to the closure of the Chicken of the Sea tuna cannery, demonstrate how anti-immigrant sentiment has grown, along with fears over the stability and survival of the local economy. Such tensions between American Sāmoans and immigrant workers have masked potential synergies in the struggles of both groups. This essay provides preliminary suggestions on how the goals of colonized indigenous groups might be combined with those of exploited working-class immigrants living in the same region. As part of the same U.S. colonial legacy, both groups have a historical basis for joining together and fighting against continued imperialism in the region. Each group could benefit from collaboration to contest colonial structures that constrain their daily lives.
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For twenty-eight years, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have evolved beyond their beginnings as yet another 1980s alternative band giving voice to its generation's disaffected youth into a modern symbol ...(among others) of tribal identity for displaced Native Americans. These young Native people span communities both on and off reservations and reserves and are scattered across the United States and Canada. In a society that reflects few American Indian cultural icons, this band, and in particular their part-Mohican lead singer/actor, has become one of the modern epicenters of cultural identity, preservation, and solidarity that has pulled Native North American youth from the late 1970s forward. And unlike other Native American icons, ranging from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show of the late nineteenth century to the counterculture movement/American Indian Movement of the 1960s, this band and specifically their lead singer have not been manipulated in the same manner by the dominant society to distort the image of American Indians through pop-cultural colonialism. In this article, the author specifically examines Kicking Bear's ties to the Wild West Shows, John Trudell's relationship to the 1960s/1970s counterculture movement and AIM, and Anthony Kiedis's role in the 1980s/1990s counterculture movement and his current icon status. The author's main objective is to further illuminate modern movements and/or "Show Indians" through the lens of Generation X/Generation Y and their American Indian participants with the lead singer of the band the Red Hot Chili Peppers as the primary focus. (Contains 76 notes.)
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Despite the volumes bias toward the dominant sports of baseball, basketball, and football and the inclusion of only one study from outside the United States, Native Athletes in Sport and Society ...succeeds remarkably in making visible the sporting experiences of Native American men and women from multiple perspectives. Louis S. Warren notes that Buffalo Bill presented his life and experiences as representative of the major social and economic trends the United States experienced from the 1840s through the end of World War I. During that era Cody moved from Iowa onto the Central Plains and then west to Wyoming, as did thousands Reviews of Books 657 of others. Because he never could keep his financial house in order, when he died most of the fortune gathered during the preceding decades had slipped away.
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While the architecture of many fair buildings reminded visitors of the areas Spanish heritage, Bokovoy looks at the participation of Native Americans in the fair and how they communicated a sense of ...their heritage and culture to fairgoers. Because of disease, many performers in ethnological shows died. Other topics include the historical ecology of the Southlands once-abundant prairies, confl icts between Californios and Americans over land claims after annexation, the almost-forgotten fi ght between sunbathers and petroleum companies for access to the citys beaches, and the varying attitudes toward animals, domestic and wild, in Latino neighborhoods.
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Welch's interrogations into the ways in which American Indians are constructed as a necessary, and yet excluded, part of the U.S. nation and its historical and cultural narratives offer insightful ...parallels to the model of cultural critique developed by Lisa Lowe in her study of Asian American cultural politics, Immigrant Acts.
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