Writer and the West Conference (1978 : Sun Valley, Idaho) Search this
Physical description:
viii, 100 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
United States
Date:
1980
C1980
Notes:
Based on papers presented at The Writer and the West Conference, sponsored by the Institute of the American West and held July 5-8, 1978 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Contents:
Statements on Indian policy. A period of sudden emergency / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- A trust responsibility issue / John E. Echohawk -- The right remains / Shirley Hill Witt -- The miner's canary / Edward C. Johnson -- Land holds families together / Fred Coyote -- "They come to do good and they do well" / Floyd A. O'Neil -- Postscript : 1979 / John E. Echohawk -- Part 1 : questions and comments -- A Cherokee story / as told by Shirley Hill Witt -- Indian water problems in the west. Who owns the rain? / John E. Echohawk -- Prior use / Shirley Hill Witt -- The highest and best use / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- Future use / Edward C. Johnson -- Not another drop / Fred Coyote -- Part II : questions and comments -- Part II : Closing statements / Carey McWilliams -- Indian lands : history and culture. The poorest of the poor / John E. Echohawk -- Sovereignty / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- The Indian way of teaching / Fred Coyote -- Plains Indians : appearance and environment / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- Northeast Indian land claims : more than twenty four bucks / Grace Lichtenstein -- Northeast Indians : the Iroquois Confederacy and Matrilineal Society / Shirley Hill Witt -- Southwest Indians : citizens without lands / Fred Coyote -- Southwest Indians : a brief history / Floyd A. O'Neill -- Northwest Indians : taking steps for themselves / Richard Hugo -- Northwest Indians : "I found the future" / Sy Gomberg -- Northwest Indians : the rights cannot be taken away / Edward C. Johnson -- An anecdote : in search of gold / Fred Coyote, C. Gregory Crampton -- Spreading the canvas. The devil's tower reservation / Frederick Manfred -- Cultures in perspective / C. Gregory Crampton -- Spreading the canvas / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- Indians of the imagination / Richard Hugo -- Appendices: Bell to Andrus May 31, 1979 -- "Critical issues for 1979" -- Pressures on Duck Valley / Winona Manning -- Aboriginal man and environment I Central Idaho / Max G. Pavesic
