Contents

table of contents*

(*NOTE: unless otherwise noted, all posts are written by Julia Good Fox. Some postings are cross-listed.)

ARTS and LETTERS

• Film Review: Notes from The Relocation: The Exiles

DECOLONIZATION

• General:
  • An Indigenous Person’s Guide to Ordinary Decolonization
  • An Organization Chart of Crisis Leadership (somewhat tongue-in-cheek)
  • Compassion in Indian Country
  • Decolonizing the Self-Determination Movement
  • Self-Determination and Our Communities: Reflections on Gender Forgiveness (excerpt)
  • That’s Not the Indian Way
  • What is Next? An Open Letter
• Healthy Activism:
  • Kitchen Activism
  • The Affinities
• Indian Country and Palestine:
  • Checkpoint 1 – Thoughts on Outsourcing and Outlawing Indigenous Thinking
  • Checkpoint 2 – A General Note on Checkpoints
  • (Editorial) Palestine: Stop the Re-Creation of “Indian Country” in the Holy Land (published in Indian Country Today)
• Leadership Series:
  • (Snap draft) A Good Tribal Council Member (commentary on an editorial by Mr. George Howell)
  • An Introduction to Immoral Leadership (Part One)
  • Decolonizing the Self-Determination Movement
  • Looking for a Handout and Fighting Over Government Fat (Part Two)
  • What is Next? An Open Letter
• Militarization
  • (Part 1) Whose Honor Guard? Native Opposition to the War on Terror (editorial by Michael Yellow Bird)
• Ordinary, Day to Day Decolonization Efforts
  • Boycott Pork, The Other White Meat
  • (Snap Draft) An Indigenous Person’s Guide to Ordinary Decolonization
• Peacekeeping and Peacemaking:
  • The Affinities
  • Compassion in Indian Country
  • (Snap Draft) Self-Determination and Our Communities: Reflections on Gender Forgiveness (excerpt)
• Pedagogy:
  • 2009 Haskell Outstanding Alumni Address (delivered by Dr. Venida Chenault)
  • The Affinities
  • (Snap draft) A Good Tribal Council Member (commentary on an editorial by Mr. George Howell)
  • (Snap Draft) An Indigenous Person’s Guide to Ordinary Decolonization
  • Pawnee Nation College (video produced by Redhand Media)
  • (Editorial) Silence of the Lambs, or, Identity Theft

INDIAN COUNTRY AND PALESTINE

• Checkpoint 1 – Thoughts on Outsourcing and Outlawing Indigenous Thinking
• Checkpoint 2 – A General Note on Checkpoints
• Checkpoint 3 – Apartheid Walls
• (Editorial) Palestine: Stop the Re-Creation of “Indian Country” in the Holy Land (published in Indian Country Today)

INDIAN AFFAIRS (BIA/BIE)

• General: “Advice from an ‘Old Mama’”
• Larry Echo Hawk: Self-Determination Goes to Washington, D.C. (video courtesy of indianz.com)

INDIGENOUS PEDAGOGY

• 2009 Haskell Outstanding Alumni Address (delivered by Dr. Venida Chenault)
• The Affinities
• (Snap draft) A Good Tribal Council Member (commentary on an editorial by Mr. George Howell)
• (Snap Draft) An Indigenous Person’s Guide to Ordinary Decolonization
• Pawnee Nation College (video produced by Redhand Media)
• (Editorial) Silence of the Lambs, or, Identity Theft

MEDIA ANALYSIS

• Snap Analysis and Commentary (Week Ending 7 August 2009)

PAWNEE NATION

• General:
  • “Pawnee Nation Returns to Homelands” (courtesy of Kearny Hub)
  • “Advice from an ‘Old Mama’”
• Boarding School: “The Gravy Had No Lumps” (courtesy of Theda Goodfox Kresge)
• Leadership:
  • Larry Echo Hawk: Self-Determination Goes to Washington, D.C. (vide0 courtesy of indianz.com)
  • Tribal Council: (Snap draft) A Good Tribal Council Member (commentary on an editorial by Mr. George Howell)
• “Modern Day Warriors” Native American Rights Fund (video)
• Pawnee Nation College (video produced by Redhand Media)

SELF-DETERMINATION NOW!

• Decolonizing the Self-Determination Movement
• What is Next? An Open Letter

AND ITEMS of INTEREST

• Crush and Lovely Moving Pictures: “50 People, 1 Question (NYC)”
• Floyd Red Crow Westerman: a song about the heart of darkness in “Task Force” (video)
• Language: “When It’s Gone, It’s Gone” (video produced by Native Studies high school club)
• NMAI:
  • “Indian/Not Indian” (video about the artist Fritz Scholder)
  • “Skateboard Culture” (video about skateboard exhibit)
• Sacred Sights: “Mt. Taylor” (press release)