Native American’s memorable messages related to lacrosse

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Lacrosse is a spiritual game for many Native Americans and other indigenous people. However, scholars have yet to explore the nature of communication related to this game, despite the growing field of sport communication. Thus, as a first step to understanding communication among native people regarding lacrosse we used thematic analysis to examine memorable messages and their impacts from 56 Native Americans. Our results indicate that Native Americans report six distinct types of memorable messages: spirituality, culture, gender, sport, and conflict. These messages come from a variety of sources. These memorable messages in turn have wide ranging impacts including shaping approaches to the game and other individuals.

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Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples
  • Nov 1, 2019
  • The Mark Twain Annual
  • Ann M Ryan

There are a handful of biographies and works of literary criticism in the field of Mark Twain studies that deserve to be called definitive. Kerry Driscoll's Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is one of them. In this patient, comprehensive, stunning work of scholarship, Driscoll has told stories that have been long forgotten, revised tales we thought we knew, and revealed others that have either been buried under the weight of Mark Twain's celebrity or silenced by our own desire to evade the truth. For any scholar working on issues of race in the life and writings of Mark Twain, for any instructor teaching Twain to undergraduate or graduate students, or, for that matter, for anyone researching the intersections between nineteenth-century politics, culture, and Native American history, Mark Twain among the Indians will be an essential text.Driscoll describes her work as a kind of “literary archeology,” which is something more than metaphor. Her research undermines less rigorous explanations of Twain's baffling antipathy to Native Americans, some of which represent his racist attitude as a youthful phase, or as a remnant of familial trauma, or simply as a convenient comic trope. Underlying each of these explanations is the suggestion that Twain's ugly rhetoric about indigenous people had little to do with the actual feelings or politics of the writer. Alternately, Driscoll complicates the impulses of critics who seek to dismiss Twain as unquestionably and irredeemably racist. In place of these easier readings of Twain's lifelong preoccupation with native peoples, Kerry Driscoll offers a far more complicated set of facts and influences. Like any good archeologist, Driscoll pieces together a narrative from disparate fragments; she draws on newspaper clippings, obscure memoirs and regional histories, legal documents, letters, maps, popular songs, reward posters, travelogues, photographs, etchings, dinner invitations, native sculpture and tattoos, minutes of meetings, marginalia, and folklore—to name just a few of her sources.In organizing her project, Driscoll describes her approach as “both chronological and geographical.” In addition to an introduction which ably situates her research in response to other scholars, and a conclusion that highlights the dangers of reaching conclusions—“The erratic, deeply conflicted views Mark Twain expressed about American Indians over a period of nearly sixty years defy easy explanations” (369)—Driscoll's eight chapters move from the history of Twain's great-grandmother, Jane Montgomery Casey (1761–1844), to Twain's Letters from Earth, written in 1909, only months before his death. Despite the historical and biographical sweep of her work, however, Driscoll resists the temptation to conflate the forward motion of time with anything like progress. For example, when Jane Lampton Clemens tells the story of the “Montgomery Massacre” to her spellbound family, it does not become a touchstone in the worldview of Orion Clemens, Twain's older brother. Driscoll suggests that this childhood memory may not have been as traumatic as earlier critics have suggested. This early tale of “savagery” is not the racial urtext that haunts Twain's psyche, nor does it mark the starting point in Twain's inevitable journey toward enlightenment. Twain's interactions with Native American people and the history that surrounds them are far less formulaic, according to Driscoll, and much more tangled.Her study of the geography that Twain inhabits allows Driscoll to illustrate the way Twain's racism erupts, retreats, and recurs in an almost cyclical pattern. Whether Twain is in the wilds of the Washoe territory or the comforts of Farmington Avenue or touring a Maori meeting house in New Zealand, he is surrounded by competing voices, texts, political agendas, and histories. Twain is fond of representing morality as the product of training: “In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware that there was anything wrong about it. No one arraigned it in my hearing.” Driscoll describes the many advocates for Native American rights and freedoms who surround Twain, suggesting that he may have been hearing their protests, but he certainly wasn't listening to them. So, for example, while Jane Clemens propagates the “intergenerational legacy of fear and racial enmity provoked by the Montgomery Massacre,” Orion Clemens responds to a much different story (23). Orion emerges from Driscoll's research as more noble and clear-eyed than earlier portraits of his feckless ways would suggest. Not only does Orion call into question his mother's perennial hostility to Native Americans, as part of his work “assembling information for the Keokuk City Directory,” Orion writes “A Sketch of the Black Hawk War and History of the Half-Breed Tract.” According to Driscoll, in this sketch “Orion sought to recover the native perspective on Iowa's colonization and learn the war's actual causes, creating a counterpoint to the existing published sources” (32). This is just one example of Driscoll's deft analysis of previously unknown or overlooked resources, including the records of the Connecticut Indian Association and the writings of its officers, as well as Twain's marginal notes in Francis Parkman's collected works, particularly The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. Not only does Driscoll excavate such buried treasures, she also places Mark Twain in the company of writers, activists, journalists, and other leaders who challenge his entrenched and reactionary views on native peoples. In addition to the surprising perspective of Orion Clemens, Driscoll represents Dan De Quille, Twain's friend and fellow journalist, as an empathetic liaison to the Paiutes and other tribes in the Nevada territory. While living in Hartford, Twain encounters Sarah Thompson Kinney and Kate Foote, politically savvy and unrelenting advocates for Native Americans, particularly regarding the issue of education, both of whom variously charm and hound Twain for his support. And in New Zealand, Twain meets Malcolm Ross, Thomas Morland Hocken, Joseph Kinsey, and John Logan Campbell, whose respect for the Maori and their culture impresses Twain and helps him to form his own appreciation for the Maori. Driscoll rescues these figures from their relative obscurity and reveals their agency in the ongoing negotiations over the fate of native peoples. Given the number of progressive voices Twain hears during his lifetime, including those of his daughters Susy and Jean, his recurring representation of Native Americans as “savages” is something more than an unconscious response to childhood trauma or an uninformed faux pas, nor is it the consequence of immaturity or ignorance. It reads, instead, like a conscious choice.Driscoll's analysis of these many and varied primary sources yields illuminating new readings of Twain's essays, sketches, and fictional work. “The Petrified Man,” long seen as another of Twain's experiments with tall tales and regional humor, “in fact serves to dramatize and advance the cultural script of Manifest Destiny” (94). Driscoll demonstrates how “The Noble Red Man,” which characterizes Native Americans as “ignoble—base and treacherous, and hateful in every way,” echoes other insulting and mocking responses to the 1870 arrival in Washington, D.C., of Red Cloud and a delegation of Lakota, particularly in the Buffalo Express, which Twain partially owned. Elsewhere in Twain's writings, from his portraits of the Goshoots and the Diggers in Roughing It to lesser-known pieces such as “The Californian's Tale,” Twain seems to oscillate between fearing and fetishizing the savage nature of Native Americans, or reducing them to comic caricatures, like “Chief Hoop-de-doodle doo,” all of which Driscoll demonstrates as being consistent with many popular reactions to Native peoples.Yet, while Twain often seems to do little more than reflect the racist attitudes of his country, Driscoll also reveals the extent to which he questions and explores those attitudes. In his unfinished sequel to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians,” Driscoll suggests that, in addition to reproducing many of the same anxieties about native savagery and sexual violence, it also erodes the boundaries between Native and Anglo American. Twain explores “the possibility of an Indianized Huck—the incarnation of a hybrid cultural identity that blends red and white” (200). Driscoll also finds in the character of Brace Johnson evidence that Twain's “status as a theological outlier” allowed him to appreciate the attractions of Native American spirituality (190). And in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Driscoll acknowledges the possibility that Hank is both cowboy and Indian, or as Joe Fulton would have it, “both Custer and Sitting Bull,” and that “the Battle of the Sand-Belt is in fact a ‘last stand’ for both sides” (253). However, she is more interested in “the larger, more significant ‘inversion,’” which imagines the failure of Hank's Man Factory before his final defeat in battle: “By transposing these circumstances, Twain unhinges the logic and linear progression of history, suggesting that violence—and not assimilation—is the sole means whereby savagery can be eradicated” (254). Finally, in her groundbreaking work with the documents and artifacts surrounding Twain's experiences in Australia and in New Zealand, Driscoll describes both the unmistakable presence of Native American history—in parallels, allusions, and marginal notations—and its conspicuous absence from Following the Equator. While he condemns the brutality that surrounds these indigenous peoples, Twain both conjures and represses the suffering of Native Americans: “In the imaginative space created by the unseen Aboriginals of Australia lurks the liminal but irresistible trace of the indigenous peoples of his own homeland” (308). Driscoll concludes her study with a reflection on a 1903 essay by Twain, “Instructions in Art,” in which Twain describes his efforts to draw a portrait of Eve. What he creates, instead, is a portrait of Sitting Bull. Both joke and fantasy, it represents Twain's conflicted response to Native Americans. According to Driscoll, it is, like the visible invisibility of Native Americans in Following the Equator, an attempt to imagine racial identity that transcends the boundaries of American history and all the scars that attend it.In Mark Twain among the Indians, Kerry Driscoll is not attempting to explain away Mark Twain's anomalous reaction to Native Americans; she is, instead, dismantling arguments that frame it as anomalous. Without ever asking which is “the real” Mark Twain, Driscoll positions Twain's racist caricatures, his visceral loathing of Indians, his blithe denial of the historical facts against his heartfelt recognition of the unjust treatment of native peoples, and his late-in-life epiphany that all suffering is created equal. Finally, she locates these competing reactions within American culture at large. While nineteenth- century Americans were calling for the extermination of Native Americans, either culturally—“Kill the Indian; Save the Man”—or literally—of the Cheyenne at Sand Creek, of Apache tribes at Camp Grant, or of the Lakota at Wounded Knee—they were also paradoxically mourning and romanticizing the “vanishing” American Indian. In Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples, Mark Twain's voice is just one more in a discordant American chorus.And so, in addition to being definitive, Mark Twain Among the Indians is also profound and necessary, an important contribution to our understanding not only of Mark Twain and his world, but of the racist history that continues to shape American culture, particularly its attitude toward native peoples—and now, additionally, immigrants and other minorities. Reading this extraordinary study has changed my thinking about Mark Twain and race, just as it has changed the way I will teach his life and his writing to my students. Yet, the story Kerry Driscoll has told in Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples extends far beyond the life of this complicated artist; it has deepened my understanding of an American history I thought I knew.

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Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603-1832 ed. by Joshua David Bellin, Laura L. Mielke, and: Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook by Hanay Geiogamah (review)
  • Jan 1, 2015
  • Theatre History Studies
  • Teresa Stankiewicz

Reviewed by: Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603-1832 ed. by Joshua David Bellin, Laura L. Mielke, and: Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook by Hanay Geiogamah Teresa Stankiewicz Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832. Edited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. pp. 333. $35.00 paper. Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook. By Hanay Geiogamah. Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2011. pp. 144. $16.00 paper. Given the disappointing lack of books published each year on Native American drama, these two new works are prime considerations not only for literary review but also for use in cultural and performance studies. Both of these works speak to the “Indianness” of Native American performance and, perhaps more importantly, are written from a distinctly Native American perspective. Editor Laura L. Mielke’s explication of the terms “Indianness” and “performance” in her introduction to Native Acts, is relevant to both works: “When we refer to Indianness in this volume, we mean the acknowledged attribute of direct association with American Indian peoples and cultures; who identifies American Indian attributes determines the substance of Indianness at specific moments” (5). Mielke defines performance in three ways: to present to an audience, to carry out a command or particular action, and to participate in a formal public function or ritual (2). Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832 includes ten insightful essays on the performance of being “Indian” that explore said performance from the perspective of the indigenous peoples. Mielke’s introduction is a superlative beginning that not only defines terms and explains the selection of essays but also [End Page 159] raises some pertinent questions about the performance of Indianness for the indigenous peoples of North America. She begins with an example of her own, the legend of Pocahontas, dissecting the various interpretations of the story and calling for an examination of the intent behind those who reported what has now become an American legend that perpetuates a romantic myth of indigenous peoples in North America. The chronologically organized essays first explore the essentialist attitudes of the Europeans who colonized America and the impact of those attitudes on the native people, concluding with the performance of Indianness in the early formation of the United States. As Mielke asserts, “In early North America, Europeans’ conceptions of Indianness were inextricable from the moral, religious, teleological, political, and economic justifications for their [European] presence” (5). The significance of this collection of essays lies in the deliberate intent to recognize the proprietorship of Native Americans, characterized by Mielke as “a critical intervention in the scholarship treating the performance of Indianness” that restores “Indian peoples to the intercultural matrix from which such performances arose” (10). The first four essays, by scholars Matt Cohen, Nan Goodman, John H. Pol-lack, and Olivia Bloechl, expose essentialist interpretations that pervade historical representations of Indians. All four scholars argue that specific essential-ist assumptions led to misrepresentations of the Native American peoples and the subsequent public attitudes that defined native and Euroamerican relationships during the colonial era. Each author also provides a brief historical background of the text or events that are being examined. In “Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England,” Cohen analyzes Native American acts of strategic simulation and dissimulation as challenges to perceptions of stable national identities. Goodman’s essay, “The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance,” examines the European attitudes that deprived Indians of legal status in common law. Bloechl’s essay, “Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations,” reveals the Jesuits’ assessment of Wendat healing ceremonies as superstitious, a grave charge at the time. Pollack’s essay, “Native Performances of Diplomacy and Religion in Early New France,” focuses on the misinterpretation of native ritual of the Innu, Algonquin, and Maliseet as a negotiated treaty, documented by François Gravé Du Pont and Samuel de Champlain in Des Sauvages, ou, Voyage de Samuel Champlain in 1603. The French understood the oration of Anadabijou as a chief or king commanding his people to accept French settlement and military aid. Pollack explains, however, that allied tribes were not interested...

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Memorable messages as guides to self-assessment of behavior: the role of instrumental values
  • Sep 1, 2001
  • Communication Monographs
  • Sandi W Smith + 2 more

Respondents were asked to recall (a) their own behaviors that either exceeded or violated their personal expectations for themselves, and (b) memorable messages associated with the behaviors yielding a matrix of classes of behavior and types of memorable messages. Control theory predicts that self-assessment of prior behavior involves comparison with internal principles that come from memorable messages. Control theory also posits that internal principles should be subordinate to the highest level of reference values called the system concept that should reflect important instrumental values. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was performed on 18 3-item subscales measuring Rokeach's Instrumental Values. Four higher order factors were the result of another CFA on the set of 18 subscales. While none of the four higher order value factors predicted hypothesized relationships among values, messages, and behaviors, the value of Responsibility was found to be a significant predictor of patterns in the matrix of behavior by memorable messages.

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