Some Readings on Cultural Appropriations, Native America, and the New Age
Diane Bell
Henry R. Luce Professor
of Religion, Economic Development, and Social Justice
Holy Cross College, Worcester MA 01610
1996
This bibliography is work-in progress. I would be most grateful for any additions, corrections, or assistance with incomplete citations, copies of papers, or information about research being undertaken on the topic and I gratefully acknowledge those who have assisted already.
Adolph, Jonathan and Richard Smoley
1989 'Beverly Hills shaman.' New Age Journal, March/April, pp. 22-6, 96-7.
Albanese, Catherine
1990 Nature Religion in America. University of Chicago Press.
Alexie, Sherman
1992 'White men can't drum.' New York Times Magazine, October 4, p. 30-1.
American Indian Community House, New York, N.Y.
1993 'Spirituality for sale.' Community Bulletin, no. 8, 4-5, 19-20.
Amoja Three Rivers
1990 Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well Intentioned. Distributed by Market
Wimmin, Box 28, Indian Valley, VA 24105.
Armstrong, Jeanette C.
1989 'Cultural robbery: Imperialism, Voice of Native women.' Trivia, 14 (Spring).
Baker, Marie Ann-Harte
1994 'Gotta be on top: Why the missionary position fails to excite me.' Canadas bap,
Semiotext(e), pp. 298-302.
Beals, Ralph
1978 'Sonoran fantasy or Coming of Age?' American Anthropologist, June, p. 357.
Braude, Ann
1993 'Discovering Americans: Appropriations of Native American religions in the nineteenth century.' Unpublished paper, Carlton College, Minnesota.
Brown, Michael F.
1994 'Who owns what the spirits share? Reflections on commodification and intellectual
property in New Age America.' PoLAR, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 7-17. (see also Glass-Coffin
and Schaefer, 1993)
Brown, Susan Love
1992 'Baby boomers, American character, and the New Age: a synthesis.' In
Perspectives on the New Age, edited by James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton, SUNY
Press, Albany, pp. 87-96.
Cardinal-Schubert, Joanne
1989 'In the red.' Fuse, vol. 17, issue 1&2, (Fall) pp. 22-8.
Chrystos
1991 'Shame-on!' Dream On, Press Gang, Vancouver, pp. 100-1.
Churchill, Ward
1988 'A little matter of genocide: Native American spirituality and New Age
hucksterism.' The Bloomsbury Review, September/October. (reprinted in Churchill 1992)
1988 'Sam Gill's Mother Earth: Colonialism, genocide, and the expropriation of
Indigenous spiritual tradition in contemporary academia.' American Indian Culture and
Research , vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 49-67. (reprinted in Churchill 1992)
1990 'Spiritual hucksterism.' Z Magazine, December. (reprinted in Churchill 1992)
1992 Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians. Common Courage Press, Monroe.
1994 Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America. Common Courage Press, Monroe.
Conners, Andrew
1993 'Teaching Drum Outdoor School vs Honor Inc.' News from Indian Country, Late
July, p. 16.
deMille, Richard
1976 Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory. Capra Press, Santa Barbara.
deMille, Richard (ed.)
1990 The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies. Wadsworth, Belmont, Ca.
1990 Validity is not Authenticity: Distinguishing two components of truth. In The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies edited by James A. Clifton, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, USA, pp. 227-253.
Deloria, Vine
1992 'Is religion possible? An evaluation of present efforts to revive traditional tribal
religions.' Wicazo Sa Review, vol. I, 11, no. 1.
Dussart,Francoise
1994 'Cynical agenda in New Age assault.' The Australian Week-end Review, Oct. 29
30, p. 5.
Eller, Cynthia
1993 In the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spiritual Movement in America. New York.
Francis, Daphne
1991 'Crystal Balls.' , 22, Winter, pp. 45-48.
Gill, Sam D.
1990 Mother Earth: An American myth. In The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and
Government Policies, edited by James A. Clifton, Transaction Publishers, New
Brunswick, USA, pp. 129-143.
1987 Mother Earth: An American Story. University of Chicago Press.
Glass-Coffin, Bonnie
1994 'Anthropology, Shamanism, and the 'New Age.' Point of View, Chronicle of
Higher Education, June 15, A48.
1993 'Shamanic introductions: when fieldwork becomes a forum for cultural (ex)change.' (See Glass-Coffin and Schaefer, American Anthropological Association Panel.)
Glass-Coffin, Bonnie and Stacy Schaefer (Co-organizers)
1993 'Ethical issues in the study of spiritual traditions: exploitation or cultural borrowing.' American Anthropological Association Panel. Michael Brown, Bonnie GlassCoffin, Chris Loether, Corey Pressman, Stacy Schaefer, Mary K. Smith-Nolan.
Glendinning, Chellis
1995 'Yours truly from Indian Country.' Yoga Journal, Jan./Feb., pp. 79-85.
Green, Rayna
1995 'The Tribe Called Wannabe', Aniyunwiya / Real Human Beings, An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose, Joseph Bruchac (Editor), Greenfield Review Press. (Reprinted from Folklore,
v 1, 9, 1988)
Hagan, Leigh
1992 Women Respond to the Men's Movement. Pandora, San Francisco.
Hawthorne, Susan
1994 'A case of spiritual voyeurism.' Feminist Bookstore News, October.
Henson (Smith), Susan
1994 Conflicts over the appropriation of Native American Ritual by New Age Participants. Master of Arts thesis, University of Southern California.
Hernandez, Inéz
1994 Mediations of the Spirit: Native American women and the ethics of representation.
Unpublished paper, University of California, Davis.
Hobson, Geary
1978 'The rise of white shaman as a new version of cultural imperialism.' In The
Remembered Earth, edited by Geary Hobson, Albuquerque, Red Earth Press, pp. 100-108.
Johnson, Mykel
1993 'Wanting to be an Indian.' (a poem). Trivia, vol.2l, pp.57-61.
1994 'Wanting to be an Indian: Cultural appropriation in White feminist spirituality.' Sinister Wisdom, vol. 52, pp. 79-88.
1994 'Native spirituality... Not!' At the Crossroads, vol. 5, December, pp. 41-3.
Kasee, Cynthia
1995 'To My New Age "Sisters" and "Brothers"', Aniyunwiya / Real Human Beings, An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose, Joseph Bruchac (Editor), Greenfield Review Press.
Kehoe, Alice B.
1990 Primal Gaia: Primitivists and Plastic Medicine Man. In The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies, edited by James A. Clifton, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, USA, pp. 193-209.
Koppedraver, K.I.
1991 'The difference between Hanbeceya and vision-quest.' Lakota Times, Rapid City,
SD, Jan 29, p. 6.
Lakota/Dakota/Nakota
1993 Declaration of War: Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality. (Reprinted in
Churchill 1994)
Landsman, Gail H.
1992 'The "other" as political symbol: Images of Indians in the Women's Suffrage
Movement.' Ethnohistory, vol. 39, no. 3, pp.
Larsen, Elizabeth
1994 'The Celestine Profit'. New Age Utne Reader, Sept./Oct., pp. 20 - 1.
Little Eagle, Avis
1994 'Sacred Pipekeeper Fears Feds will Step In.' Cultural Survival Quarterly, Winter,
p. 72.
1991 'Lakota rituals being sold.' Lakota Times, Rapid City, SD, July 2, pp. 1& A2.
Loether, Chris
1993 'Pan-Indian spirituality among the Western Mono.' See Glass-Coffin and Schaefer, American Anthropological Association Panel.
Looking Horse, Martha
1991 'Looking horse gives hard lesson in spirituality.' Lakota Times, SD, Jan 29, p. 6.
Mies, Maria and Vandana Shiva
1993 Ecofeminism, Spinifex Press, Melbourne.
Melton, J.G., J Clark and A.A.Kelly
1990 Introduction, overview, and chronology of the New Age Movement,New Age Encyclopaedia, Gale Research Inc., Detroit, pp. vii-xxxvil.
Merchant, Carolyn
1989 The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. Harper San
Francisco.
Morrissey, Di
1994 'Letters.' Australian Author, vol. 26, no. 3, Spring, p. 7.
Neibuhr, Gustav
1993 'Indians blast imitators.' Washington Post, Sept. 3.
Noel, Daniel C.
Forthcoming 'The inner journey in neo-shamanism: A neo-Jungian perspective on
imagining for neo-pagan practice.' In Witchcraft and Shamanism, edited by C. Clifton,
Llewellyn, St. Paul, New Mexico.
1991 'Merlin returns: The subtle experience of an anglo-shamanism.' The Quest, Summer, pp.31-39.
1993 Re-Imagining shamanism: Scholarly construct and New Age fantasy healing fiction',
Metaxy, Summer, pp. 17-2. Noel, Daniel, C.(ed.)
1976 Seeing Castaneda: Reactions to the "Don Juan" Writings of Carlos Castaneda. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York.
Orenstein, Gloria Femen
1993 'Towards an ecofeminist ethic of shamanism and the sacred.' In Ecofeminism and the Sacred, edited by Carol J. Adams, Continuum, pp. 172-190.
Pratt, Mary Louise
1986 Fieldwork in common places. In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of
Ethnography, pp. 27-50.
Pressman, Corey
1993 'Changing dances: syncretism and religious identity at a Hare Krishna community.'
See Glass-Coffin and Schaefer, American Anthropological Association Panel.
Rose, Wendy
1992 'The Great Pretenders: Further Reflections on Whiteshamanism.' In The State of
Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance, edited by Annette Jaimes, South
End Press, Boston, pp. 403-421.
Sangiacomo, Michael
1993 'New Agers abuse Sun Dance ceremony, say Native protesters.' News from
Indian Country, late July, p.9, 13.
Sarris, Greg
1992 'Telling dreams and keeping secrets: the Bole Maru as American Indian resistance.'
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 71-85.
Schaefer, Stacey
1993 'Huichols, the New Age movement and the Native American church: ethical
considerations in long-term field work.' See Glass-Coffin and Schaefer, American
Anthropological Association Panel.
Schweidlenka, Roman
1993 'Plastic medicine men invade Europe.' Community Bulletin, American Indian
Community House, vol. VIII, no. XIII.
Seager, Joni
1993 Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crisis
Routledge, New York. (See especially Section 5: The Eco-fringe: Deep ecology and eco
feminism, pp. 222-252).
Smith, Andy
1990 'For all those who were Indian in a former life.' Sojourner , vol. 16, no. 3, Nov.,
pp. 8-9. Reprinted in Ecofeminism and the Sacred, edited by Carol J. Adams,
(Continuum, New York) 1993, pp. 168-71 and Ms, Nov./Dec., 1990, pp. 44-5.
1991 'The New Age movement and Native spirituality.' Indigenous Woman, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, p. 18.
Smith, Susan
1994 Sweating Indian Style: Conflicts over Native American Ritual. Video, VHS 1/2 inch
cassette, 57 mins, 1501 Lahoma Drive, Pryor, Oklahoma, 74361.
Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
1993 'Imagining them: reimagining ourselves: cultural appropriation in a New Age American spirituality movement.' See Glass-Coffin and Schaefer, American Anthropological Association Panel.
Straw, Gordon (Rev.)
1993 'Borrowing from Native American spirituality: A serious concern.' News from Indian Country, late, p. 16.
Talima, Valerie
1993 'Tobacco ties, prayer feathers-it's all here, for a price.' Community Bulletin,
American Indian Community House, vol. IX, no. XIV (from Indian Country, date??)
Taylor, Bron
1997 Earthen spirituality or cultural genocide?: Radical environmentalism's appropriation of Native American spirituality. Religion, vol. 27, 183-215.
Todd, Judith
1986 'On common ground: Native American and feminist spirituality approaches in the struggle to save Mother Earth.' In Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power within the Feminist Movement, edited by Charlene Spretnak, Doubleday Day.
Todd, Loretta
1990 'Notes on appropriation.' Parallélogramme, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 24-33.
Valadez, Susana
1986 'Guided tour spirituality: cosmic way or cosmic nip-off.' Shaman's Drum, Fall.
Warren, Karen J.
1993 'A feminist philosophical perspective on ecofeminist spiritualities.' In Ecofeminism
and the Sacred, edited by Carol J. Adams, Continuum, pp. 119-132.
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