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Publication The History of Native American Studies at the University of California Riverside(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2001-09-01) Chambers, IanPublication Drinking and Healing: Reflections on the Lost Autonomy of the Innu(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2001-09-01) Samson, ColinHeavy drinking has been a feature of the village lives of the Innu people of Labrador ever since they were coerced to abandon permanent nomadic hunting in the 1950s and 1960s, when the government-built villages of Sheshatshiu and Davis Inlet (or Utshimassits) were created. The process of sedentarization has accompanied a removal of the people from the hunting life in the interior of Labrador (known as the country or nutshimit), incurring a serious loss of meaning, purpose and autonomy. To combat heavy drinking, the Canadian authorities have imported into the Innu villages both pan-Native healing organizations and their own social services and criminal justice institutions. The Innu, through their political body, the Innu Nation, have also developed Healing Services. In these reflections, which are derived from my work with the Innu since 1994, I examine various approaches to healing and look at the experiences of some Innu with drinking. Paradoxically, although drinking is very often destructive, it can also be a form of emotional sharing, protest against assimilation and power to drinkers.Publication Epistemological Distinctiveness and the Use of "Guided History" Methodology for Writing Native Histories(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2001-09-01) Belanger, Yale D.Writing Native history has traditionally conformed to traditional methodological approaches. This essay argues that inherent differences in the ways Native and non-Native cultures view the past directly impact the production of histories focused on Native populations. With this point in mind, the second half of this essay presents a methodology entitled "Guided History," which not only allows for community input in the production of local histories but also actively promotes this participation.Publication Alternative Perspectives on the Battle of Wolf Creek of 1938(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2001-09-01) Warde, Mary JaneThe Battle of Wolf Creek in northwestern Oklahoma in 1838 was highly significant to the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and Plains Apache tribes, but little known beyond their mutual frontier. Their oral accounts of the battle allow us to examine these Plains Indians' view of their history and compare it to the non-Indian's ways of memorializing events.Publication Forever Changed: Boarding School Narratives of American Indian Identity in the U.S. and Canada(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2001-09-01) Smith, MaureenThis essay examines personal narratives to identify experiences at boarding schools. These collective experiences forged new American Indian identities due to a white educational system forced upon these Indian students. While stories remain part of tradition, they convey that Indian youth had changed permanently.Publication Indigenous Nations Journal, Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall, 2001): Front Matter(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2001-09-01)Publication Indigenous Nations Journal, Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall, 2001): Book Reviews(Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu, 2001-09-01)