James Welch’s Fools Crow

The Pikuni people of James Welch’s novel Fools Crow were motivated by a number of interrelated and often complementary priorities, among them personal honor, collective strength, spiritual harmony and power, family relationships, and individual desires. Often, an individual’s pursuit of a good life improved the community’s fortune and status. The collective Pikuni society, [...]

The Incorporation of the American West

Exclusions from the National Body
by Feather Crawford Freed
 
            The American West was incorporated into the nation of the United Sates though a complex and uneven process that this paper organizes into three distinct, but often overlapping and interrelated phases.  First, the United States government conquered and claimed the western land and the resources therein.  Next, [...]