Jacqueline Fear-Segal & Rebecca Tillett 
Indigenous Bodies [EPUB ebook] 
Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming

This interdisciplinary collection of essays, by both Natives and non-Natives, explores presentations and representations of indigenous bodies in historical and contemporary contexts. Recent decades have seen a wealth of scholarship on the body in a wide range of disciplines.
Indigenous Bodies extends this scholarship in exciting new ways, bringing together the disciplinary expertise of Native studies scholars from around the world. The book is particularly concerned with the Native body as a site of persistent fascination, colonial oppression, and indigenous agency, along with the endurance of these legacies within Native communities. At the core of this collection lies a dual commitment to exposing numerous and diverse disempowerments of indigenous peoples, and to recognizing the many ways in which these same people retained and/or reclaimed agency. Issues of reviewing, relocating, and reclaiming bodies are examined in the chapters, which are paired to bring to light juxtapositions and connections and further the transnational development of indigenous studies.

Table of Content

Acknowledgements



Editor’s Introduction


Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Rebecca Tillett



Foreword: “Of bodies changed to other forms I tell”:


Tumblebuggery, Creation Stories, and Songs


Carter Revard




Part I. Visual Representations



1. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Indigenous Bodies, Indigenous Stories in a Post-Columbian World


Carolyn Kastner



2. Restating Idigenous Presence in Eastern Dakota and Ho Chunk (Winnebago) Portraits of the 1830s-1860s


Stephanie Pratt




Part II. Dismemberment and Display



3. Plaster-Cast Indians at the National Museum


Jacqueline Fear-Segal



4. William Lanné’s Pipe: Reclaiming the “Last” Tasmanian Male


Lynette Russell




Part III. Gender and Sexuality



5. Sodomy, Ambiguity, and Feminization: Homosexual Meanings and the Male Native American Body


Max Carocci



6. Devil with the Face of an Angel: Physical and Moral Descriptions of Aboriginal People by Missionary Émile Petitot


Murielle Nagy




photo gallery follows page 98




Part IV. Imagination and Commodification



7. Marketing Indigenous Bodies in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie


Joanna Ziarkowska



8. Stories from the Womb—Esther Belin’s
From the Belly of My Beauty
Ewelina Bańka




Part V. Dis-ease and Healing


9. Prayer with Pain: Ceremonial Suffering among the Mi’kmaq


Suzanne Owen



10. Coping with Colonization: Aboriginal Diabetes on Manitoulin Island


Darrel Manitowabi and Marion Maar




Part VI. Physical Landscapes



11. Representing Indigenous Bodies in Epeli Hau’ofa and Syaman Rapogan


Hsinya Huang



12. The Many Indigenous Bodies of
Kai Tahu


Khyla Russell and Samuel Mann



Contributors

Index

About the author

Jacqueline Fear-Segal is Reader in American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia and the author of
White Man’s Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation.
Rebecca Tillett is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia and the author of
Contemporary Native American Literature.