Robert Warrior

• PhD
• Professor at University of Kansas

In all conferences and meetings of this association, there shall be broad, free discussion of all subjects bearing upon the welfare of the race. In the penultimate paragraph of an essay I wrote for a recent special issue of the journal interventions on indigeneity and postcolonial theory, I stated the following: “The intellectual historical project...

Spivak's ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ emerged in and helped shape a specific moment in the development of literary theory in the US, and it continues to challenge Native American studies in significant ways. Spivak captures in Gramscian terms the dilemma that scholars and intellectuals from the colonized world face in positing their work as engaging...

The term transnational has had a strong impact in various corners of literary and cultural studies over the past decade, but is only now emerging as a significant category of analysis among Native American writers and critics and in Native American Studies. This essay grew out of a specific attempt to make some sense of why so many Native scholars...

For me, entering this profession involved the broader context of native american and indigenous studies as well as native American literary studies. My scholarship, pedagogy, and professional connections have relied on a synergy between texts as Native authors have crafted them and the social, political, and experiential contexts from which those a...

{ 369 RoBeRt WARRIoR University of Oklahoma review essay The Role of Native American Voices in Rethinking Early American Literary Studies Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law. DAVID J. CARLson. University of Illinois Press, 2006. 217 pp. The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from M...

Much literary scholarship has been devoted to the flowering of Native American fiction and poetry in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, Robert Warrior argues, nonfiction has been the primary form used by American Indians in developing a relationship with the written word, one that reaches back much further in Native history and culture. Focusing on au...

Studies in American Indian Literatures 16.2 (2004) 1-13 "And while you ask yourselves, 'What do they, the Indians, want?' you have only to look at the unjust laws made for them and say, 'They want what I want.' " These words, spoken on two occasions in the Odeon Theatre in Boston in January 1836, are among the last history records of Pequot intelle...

American Quarterly 55.4 (2003) 681-687 TOWARDS THE END OF HIS 1933 BOOK The Land of the Spotted Eagle , Lakota author Luther Standing Bear presents his critique of where Native Americans stand vis à vis American society. "The white man does not understand the Indian," Standing Bear writes, "for the reason that he does not understand America. He is...

Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's adventurous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures. For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature have sought to represent the Indian in America....