New Indians, Old Wars

In New Indians, Old Wars, Elizabeth CookLynn, a distinguished scholar and a Crow Creek Sioux tribal member, presents seven essays explaining her views on Native American literature and politics, Native American studies programs, and the art of Native survival in the academic world. Some issues that Cook-Lynn identifies, such as the tendency of educated Natives to leave reservations and "sleep white" (p. 145) might pertain equally to educated black or Chicano persons, but for the author these are primarily nefarious new-model programs of "relocation" and "assimilation" for Indians.