User:SierraTL/Native American studies

Periodization[edit]
Philip Deloria, professor of Native American History at Harvard University, a popularly accepted authority in the field, explores the historiography of Native American history by focusing in on important questions. Deloria acknowledges the abundance of work in the canon, but also understands the lack of diversity among its authors. Through his examination of the system or organization and possible future inclusions and multiplicities of the field, Deloria leads the reader to the question of epistemology. He highlights the idea of difference insisting that historians must analyze how non-native writers have viewed the Native Americans as different and how Natives have viewed those assessments. Another focus of Deloria's, is on periodization. He provides four broad historical periods in written Native American History. In analyzing the work from Frontiers History, Racial Science, Modernist History, Native Narrative, and Postmodernist History, shifts in historical writing can be identified. Deloria defines frontier perspective as the process where settlers looked at Native Americans in terms of location and the moving boundary between the outside and the inside. '''The Racial Science perspective is when people studied Native Americans as biological specimens and tried to categorize them racially. The perspective of Modernism describes Native Americans as some tragedy, considering social boundaries as rigid with only a few exceptions. On the other hand, Deloria describes Native Narrative as viewed from the point of view of Native Americans. The postmodernist perspective dissolves social boundaries.''' All of Deloria's research brings him to the conclusion that the most interesting new work in the field of Native American History can come from both Native and Non-Native writers, who have fully explored the work of the other side.

Academic journals[edit]

 * Decolonization Indigeneity, Education & Society
 * Wíčazo Ša Review
 * American Indian Quarterly
 * American Indian Culture and Research Journal
 * Canadian Journal of Native Studies
 * Native Studies Review
 * Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL)
 * Transmotion


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