Includes bibliographical references and index Reframing dance, performance, and traditional stories for a postmodern era. Inventing native modern dance: a tough trip through paradise / Daystar/Rosalie JonesOld spirits in a new world: Pacific Northwest performance: identity, authenticity, theatricality / Sarah Bryant-Bertail -- Owners of the past: readbacks or tradition in Mi'kmaq narratives / Anne-Christine Hornborg -- The Pocahontas myth and its deconstruction in Monique Mojica's play Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots / Maria Lyytinen -- The native body in performance. Stories from the body: blood memory and organic texts / Monique Mojica -- Acts of transfer: the 1975 and 1976 productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company / Julie Pearson-Little Thunder -- Embodiment as a healing process: Native American women and performance / Shelley Scott -- The hearts of its women: rape, (residential schools), and re-membering / Ric Knowles -- Native representation in drama. "People with strong hearts": staging communitism in Hanay Geiogamah's plays, Body Indian and 49 / Jaye T. Darby -- Coming-of-age on the rez: William S. Yellow Robe's The independence of Eddie Rose as Native American bildungsdrama / David Krasner -- Feathers, flutes, and drums: images of the indigenous Americans in Chicano drama / Jorge Huerta -- Metamora's revenge / Bruce McConachie -- Challenging stereotypes through film. Performance and "trickster aesthetics" in the work of Mohawk filmmaker Shelley Niro / Kristin L. Dowell -- Speaking lives, filming lives: George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva / Annie Kirby-Singh. Daystar/Rosalie Jones: Reframing dance, performance, and traditional stories for a postmodern era. Inventing native modern dance: a tough trip through paradise Sarah Bryant-Bertail: Old spirits in a new world: Pacific Northwest performance: identity, authenticity, theatricality Anne-Christine Hornborg: Owners of the past: readbacks or tradition in Mi'kmaq narratives Maria Lyytinen: The Pocahontas myth and its deconstruction in Monique Mojica's play Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots Monique Mojica: The native body in performance. Stories from the body: blood memory and organic texts Julie Pearson-Little Thunder: Acts of transfer: the 1975 and 1976 productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company Shelley Scott: Embodiment as a healing process: Native American women and performance Ric Knowles: The hearts of its women: rape, (residential schools), and re-membering Jaye T. Darby: Native representation in drama. "People with strong hearts": staging communitism in Hanay Geiogamah's plays, Body Indian and 49 David Krasner: Coming-of-age on the rez: William S. Yellow Robe's The independence of Eddie Rose as Native American bildungsdrama Jorge Huerta: Feathers, flutes, and drums: images of the indigenous Americans in Chicano drama Bruce McConachie: Metamora's revenge Kristin L. Dowell: Challenging stereotypes through film. Performance and "trickster aesthetics" in the work of Mohawk filmmaker Shelley Niro Annie Kirby-Singh.: Speaking lives, filming lives: George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva |
