The Public Historian:

Special Issue on Representing Native American History,
Vol.18:4

The Public Historian announces the publication of "Representing Native American History," a special issue edited by Clara Sue Kidwell, Director of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, and Ann Marie Plane, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Gathering voices from a range of academic disciplines and nonacademic professions, this impressive 218-page volume responds to one of the most important issues facing historians of the United States: creating complex histories of intercultural contact.

Six essays consider how museums, monuments, and public parks must address their historical role in glorifying Euro-American civilization, including the conquest of indigenous peoples, and presenting artifacts of Native Americans as devoid of history. Grassroots American Indian activists in the 1960s and 70s worked to reclaim national shrines and holidays. Their efforts have challenged public historians to re-present American Indian histories for audiences unaware of new interpretations of past events.

Although the essays focus on American Indians, the authors raise issues that public historians face every day--the reconciling of a plethora of diverse public mythologies and ideologies in the presentation of history.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Clara Sue Kidwell, Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, and Ann Marie Plane, University of California at Santa Barbara
• Treaties and Memorials: Interpreting Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, Mary-Ellen Cummings, Auburn University, and Caroline Gebhard, Tuskegee University
• Surrounded by Indians: The Exhibition of Comanche and the Predicament of Representing Native American History, C. Richard King, Drake University
• Soapbox Discourse: Tribal Historiography, Indian-White Relations, and Southeastern New England Powwows, Ann McMullen, Milwaukee Public Museum
• Culture as Nature: How Native American Cultural Antiquities Became Part of the Natural World, Derek Bousé, Albion College
• Respecting Sacred Perceptions: The Lakotas, Bear Butte, and Land-Management Strategies, Kari Forbes-Boyte, Emporia State University
• Bones of Contention: The Repatriation of Native American Human Remains, Andrew Gulliford, Middle Tennessee State University

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