Reviews a bibliography with over 4,000 entries on the Catawba Nation of the Carolina piedmont. The book surveys virtually every issue of every newspaper in the Catawba's vicinity for the past 150 years, and also cites government reports, travel accounts, scholarly works, and manuscripts. (SV)

Reviews a historical overview of the American Indian tribes of Wisconsin, emphasizing the contrasts in lifestyle between the Chippewa and the Winnebago. Criticizes the book for its many unsupported, or inadequately supported, controversial statements. (SV)

Reviews a book on the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, suggesting that the author puts a white, European bias on the actual events, which encourages non-Indian young readers to think in limited ways about Indian people and keeps them from identifying with Indian people. (SM)

In "The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies," pseudo-scholarly essays compiled by anthropologist James A. Clifton attack many recently emerged truths about Native America. Core essays dispute any legitimacy in Indian land claims, efforts toward self-determination, or attempts to publicize what has been done to…

Favorably reviews six reference works: (1) Klein's encyclopedia; (2) Ancient America atlas, Coe and colleagues; (3) Littlefield and Parins' analysis of America Indian newspaper publishing; (4) Kutsch's guide to Cherokee documents; (5) Malval's guide to Hampton Institute archives; and (6) Clements' guide to Indian folklore in nineteenth century…

Criticizes "The Education of Little Tree," by Forest Carter, for presenting an oversimplified and falsified view of both Indian and Appalachian cultural history in this tale of a Cherokee boy. Suggests that Carter, former white-supremacist publicist and Klansman, is pro-Indian only by way of being anti-Yankee. (SV)

Describes and critically analyzes volume of "Canadian Journal of Native Studies" (v4 n2 1984). Sketches journal's history and critiques three articles. Article topics include history (Indian treaties and Indian policy administration); resource development impacts (reserve land flooding, native health, and fishing); and native education…

Clifton's collection of essays attacks recent pro-Indian "fictions" (including Native spirituality and the relationship between the Iroquois League and the U.S. Constitution) as politically motivated romanticism and nonsense. The authors are struggling to maintain white intellectual authority over definitions of Indian identity and interpretations…

This annotated bibliography lists 12 outstanding bibliographies published during 1990 and 1991 covering the following historical topics: the Cambridge Ritualists, Herbert Hoover, the Napoleonic era, British history 1945-87, electrical technology, the U.S. peace movement, Columbus, women and seventeenth-century literature, pre-Columbian United…

Reviews a general study guide to materials on Iroquois diplomacy collected during a three-year project by the D'Arcy McNickle Center (Newberry Library). Summarizes five interpretative essays included in the guide which place Iroquois treaties in their historical and cultural contexts. (SV)

Reviews 11 children's books, published 1990-93, suitable for elementary and middle school students, covering Native riddles; Hiawatha as founder of the Iroquois confederacy; Chief Seattle's famous speech; stories about Inuit life and Mexican village life during the 1500s; Sequoyah and the Cherokee alphabet; the Iroquois creation myth; Wampanoag…

Reviews "The American Indian: A Multimedia Encyclopedia," Version 1.0 (New York, Facts on File, Inc., 1993). This electronic product (compact disk) presents a great amount of material on American Indians from various formats, but its effectiveness is limited by the dated nature of some materials. Software design and searching features are…

This paper critically reviews the book, "My Heart Is On the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, 1800." The review begins with a profile of Captain Richard Henry Pratt who founded the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Indian Industrial School in 1879. Pratt's philosophy was to "kill the Indian and…