In this volume prominent scholars from across the United States and Europe examine the central significance of place within Native American history and life. They shed new light on this foundational concept within Native American Studies at a time when the idea of place is under fundamental reassessment across disciplines. The studies focus on understanding the American self within each of the varied landscapes of the United States and on recognising the true 'place' of American Indian peoples within American history. The contributions to this volume are selected from the conference on 'Place and Native American Indian History, Literature and Culture' held on 29-31 March 2006 at the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. Over one hundred and twenty delegates from across the globe congregated, including the largest gathering of Native American intellectuals yet seen in Europe. In this volume prominent scholars from across the United States and Europe examine the central significance of place within Native American history and life. They shed new light on this foundational concept within Native American Studies at a time when the idea of place is under fundamental reassessment across disciplines. The studies focus on understanding the American self within each of the varied landscapes of the United States and on recognising the true «place» of American Indian peoples within American history. The contributions to this volume are selected from the conference on «Place and Native American Indian History, Literature and Culture» held on 29-31 March 2006 at the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. Over one hundred and twenty delegates from across the globe congregated, including the largest gathering of Native American intellectuals yet seen in Europe. Acknowledgements 13 Foreword ALAN TRACHTENBERG 15 Introduction JOY PORTER 21 DAVID J. MURRAY Knowing Our Place in Native American Studies 31 SHAMOON ZAMIR Living Among the Dead: Richard Throssel and the Picturing of History at Little Bighorn 49 TROY JOHNSON American Indians, Manifest Destiny and Indian Activism: A Cosmology of Sense of Place 71 JAMES HAMILL AND JOHN CINNAMON This Strange Journey: Stories of Trails of Tears from Indian Families in Eastern Oklahoma 93 ROB TAYLOR The Schwemberger Photographs 113 ALETA M. RINGLERO Simeon Schwemberger: Observations of 'Big Eyes' 127 DEBORAH L. MADSEN Walking the Walk/Talking the Talk: On Survivance, Spatial Narrative and the National Museum of the American Indian 137 NANCY J. PAREZO To Live Within Dinetah: Navajo Sandpainters and Their Quest for Place 155 CLAUDIA HAAKE No Place for the Delawares?: Removal and Loss of Federal Recognition 177 BRUCE E. JOHANSEN A Sense of Place in Contemporary Native American Political Humour 197 KATARINA ALTSHUL Sign Language: Native American Stories in National Parks of the American Southwest 221 DAWN MARSH RIGGS She Considered Herself Queen of the Whole Neighbourhood: Hannah Freeman, Lenape Sovereignty and Penn's Peaceable Kingdom 243 MAX CAROCCI Living in an Urban Rez: Constructing San Francisco as Indian Land 263 JACQUELINE FEAR-SEGAL Dispossessing the Dead Indian: The Spatial and Racial Politics of Burial 283 SANDRA BUSATTA Landscapes and Skyscapes in Contest 305 SUSANNE BERTHIER-FOGLAR Saving Sacred Mountains: The Example of the San Francisco Peaks 333 GABRIELLA TREGLIA A Very 'Indian' Future? The Place of Native Cultures and Communities in BIA and Native Thought in the New Deal Era 357 Notes on Contributors 381 List of Illustrations 389 Index 391