"Keep Up the Fight": Indigenous Editorial Practices, Collaboration, and Networks of Exchange in the Early Twentieth Century

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay explores how Indigenous editors such as Carlos Montezuma (Yavapai), Rev. Philip Gordon (Anishinaabe), and Gus, Theo, and Rev. Clement H. Beaulieu (Anishinaabe) created communities of practice that sought to use the press as a tool to advance what they believed to be the best interests of Indigenous peoples and define the role of the Indigenous editor in the early twentieth century. I first situate these editors and publishers within widening Indigenous periodical networks of the early twentieth century before moving on to discuss their editorial practices and collaborations. Ultimately, I argue that editors such as Montezuma, Gordon, and the Beaulieus sought to leverage Indigenous periodical networks to intervene in massmedia representations of Indigenous people and create spaces for intertribal dialogue that were not mediated by the BIA or white "friends of the Indian."