| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

*Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities*. Edited by Devon Abbot Mihesuah and Angela Cavender Wilson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xi + 245 pp. Appendix, notes, index. $50.00, £37.95, cloth; $19.95, £15.50, paper.)
The academy, as a site of (western) scholarly production, is a "contentious ground," a "site of colonialism" evidenced in biased hiring practices, non-recognition of Native scholars, propagation of inappropriate course content, and failure to police itself concerning abuses of power (pp. 92, 88). This anthology of essays issues a call to indigenize the academy, by penetrating traditions that exclude Native faculty and Native-driven scholarship, and creating a "space" where Native knowledge, methodologies, and applied scholarship that supports tribal nation building is supported (p. 93).	1
A warning to prospective Native graduate students: Native academics occupy a fraught space here. Native professors are the vanguard of this institutional transformation, but the vanguard is vastly outnumbered: of the 318 AHA members who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native in 1998, the editors "can think of maybe twenty Indigenous historians, and only a few of those write useful monographs about Indigenes" (p. 12). It is upon the shoulders of this small cadre to provide momentum for the movement. Remaining Native and future scholars (including "colonized genetic Indians"), have "hope" through activism (p. 76).	. . .

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