Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.
Contents:
"And now our minds are one" : the Thanksgiving address and attaining consensus among the Haudenosaunee / Philip P. Arnold -- The use of digressions in Anishinaabe rhetoric as a moral act : connecting speech to the religious idea that all things are related / Lawrence W. Gross -- Relevance and survival through naming, space, and inclusion / Delores Mondragon -- Childbirth, and the sticky tamales : Nahua rhetoric and worldview in the Glyphic Codex Borgia / Felicia Rhapsody Lopez -- "O'odham, too" : or, How to speak to rattlesnakes / Seth Schermerhorn -- Sounding Navajo : bookending in Navajo public speaking / Meredith Moss -- Agency of the ancestors : Apache rhetoric / Ines Talamantez -- Why we fish : decolonizing salmon rhetorics and governance / Cutcha Risling Baldy -- "Hey cousin!" : rhetorics of the Lower Coast Salish / Danica Sterud Miller -- The two-spirit Tlingit film rhetoric of Aucoin's My own private Lower Post / Gabriel S. Estrada -- Think Kodhamidh! : cultural continuity through evaluative thinking / Phyllis A. Fast -- A trans-indigenous reading of Peter Blue Cloud's Elderberry flute son / Ines Hernandez-Avila.
Summary:
"Native American Rhetoric is the first book to explore rhetorical traditions from within individual Native communities and Native languages. The essays set a new standard for how rhetoric is talked about, written about, and taught. The contributors argue that Native rhetorical practices have their own interior logic, which is grounded in the morality and religion of their given traditions. Once we understand the ways in which Native rhetorical practices are rooted in culture and tradition, the phenomenological expression of the speech patterns becomes clear. The value of Native communities and their languages is underlined throughout the essays. Lawrence W. Gross and the contributors successfully represent several, but not all, Native communities across the United States and Mexico, including the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Choctaw, Nahua, Chickasaw and Chicana, Tohono O'odham, Navajo, Apache, Hupa, Lower Coast Salish, Koyukon, Tlingit, and Nez Perce. Native American Rhetoric will be an essential resource for continued discussions of Native American rhetorical practices in and beyond the discipline of rhetoric" -- Back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.