NAIS notes

Question 1

Vine Deloria Jr on what it means to be Indian and what Indians need in 1969

Answer 1

to be indian is to be unreal and ahistorical; indians do not need to be studied, they need to be left alone

Question 2

Scott Richard Lyons’ notion of the x-mark

Answer 2

a sign of consent made under conditions that are not of one’s own making, a simultaneous display and lack of agency/power

Question 3

Paul Chaat Smith’s notion of romanticism

Answer 3

a deeply ideological system of racism that encompasses language culture history, an ideological swamp, reflected in the word choice of tribe over nation, tipi over cabin