Comments from the Guest Editor

I want to take this opportunity to share some thoughts with the readers of Explorations about the association and the journal. The new editorial staff is in the process of making several significant changes in format as well as content of the publications. The first new beginning is a new logo, a logo which has as its central symbol the character meaning the source

EDUCATION AND THE IMAGES OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

Looking at any schedule of college courses, one is likely to find several classes which come under the rubric of ethnic studies. The courses are popular with teachers and students alike because they represent a change of pace from traditional study. Hopefully, such courses suggest a move toward an appreciation and recognition of the cultural diversity in America and mean that, as a nation, we are ready to follow the suggestion of Louis Ballard, American Indian composer and author, who stated that cultural differences should be honored, not merely \u27accepted,\u27 which is nothing more than a synonym for \u27tolerated.\u27 In the decade of the Bicentennial, it is fitting that we re-examine our history; however, the celebration of the past and the interest in ethnicity have combined during the seventies to result in one very large and, to many people, embarrassing truth: America\u27s historical past does not mean the same to everyone nor has it been interpreted accurately in many cases

[Review of] Isobel White, Diane Barwick, and Betty Meehan, eds. Fighters and Singers: The Lives of Some Aboriginal Women

Fighters and Singers is a collection of fifteen essays written about Aboriginal women of Australia. The authors, mostly anthropologists and all women, wrote of their sisters, mothers, and aunts. The pieces are all informative about tribal life, but they are also warm reminiscences of relationships across cultural boundaries. Among the contributors is Pearl Duncan, the first Aborigine to become a trained teacher in Australia and a former member of the National Aboriginal Education Committee

An Interview with Geraldine Keams

When Geraldine Keams visited Iowa State University for the annual Symposium on the American Indian in 1983, I had the opportunity to interview her. The tape remained untranscribed until we met again in California during the fall of 1986, more than three years later. Geri and I discussed the directions her life had taken since our initial meeting, and we both agreed that her comments made in 1983 were still relevant. The interview is printed below in full, and some contemporary comments about her life bring the interview up to date

[Review of] W. S. Penn. All My Sins Are Relatives

W.S. Penn writes with wit and cleverness, but also with passion and love, about himself, his blood relatives, and his spiritual relatives. If the sins of the father are visited upon the son, Penn is doubly doomed by his need to understand his grandfather’s generation as well as his father’s. It is his grandfather and his father, as well as numerous others, to whom the book is dedicated, and it is this line of family members who have created the writer and critic who explores his own life as a mixed blood by simultaneously exploring the lives of his relatives and of his relatives and of other writers such as Wendy Rose, Leslie Silko, and Mourning Dove

Advertising, Pricing & Market Structure in Competitive Matching Markets

This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to observe advertisements randomize over the advertised sellers using symmetric mixed strategies. Equilibrium prices and profit maximizing advertising levels are derived and their properties analyzed, including the interplay of prices and advertising with the market structure. The model generates a unimodal (inverted U-shape) relationship between both, individual and industry advertising level, and market structure. The relationship results from a trade off between a price effect and a market structure-matching effect. We find that the decentralized market has underprovision of advertising, both for individual sellers and industry wide, and that entry is excessive relative to the efficient level. We present a quantitative analysis to highlight properties of the models and to demonstrate the extent of inefficiency.Advertising, pricing, market structure, endogenous matching, asymmetric information, efficiency.

[Review of] Margaret B. Blackman. During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman

This book is a recorded autobiography, but it is also much more. In the preface Blackman traces her connections with the Haida people of the Northwest Coast since 1970 and explains her special relationship with Florence Edenshaw Davidson whom she promised in 1973 that she would someday publish the record of her life. Davidson had accepted Margaret Blackman as a grandchild and the special kinship relationship enabled the two of them in 1977 to record the life story of the eighty-one year old Haida woman. Nani, the Haida equivalent for grandmother, traces through six chapters the significant events of her life, remembering the stories told about the times before her birth and elaborating on the changes she has experienced within her own lifetime. In her recollections she fulfills the mandate of the name Story Maid which her father had given her at birth

[Review of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt and james G. E. Smith, eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas

The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas is an illustrated catalog produced for a 1979 exhibition of the Museum of the American Indian which had as its purpose the exploration of the interrelationships between the arts and the cultures which produce them. This catlog [catalog] is refreshing in its thoroughness and in the way the artwork is integrated with the text. Exhibition catalogs often begin with a scholarly introduction and follow with hundreds of photographs of museum pieces only briefly identified. By contrast, The Ancestors begins with a series of color plates and follows with seven specific chapters on the divisions of the exhibition: the Painter, the Feather-worker, the Carver, the Goldsmith, the Basketmaker, the Weaver, and the Potter

Les petites activités de pêche dans le Pacifique Sud

On ne peut traiter de l'évolution des pêches aux îles Tonga sans préciser, au préalable, l'environnement géographique et le contexte historique et socio-économique de cette micro-société insulaire. En effet, le peuplement relativement récent de cette aire du Pacifique, dû à une vague de migration d'une population d'origine austronésienne venue d'Asie du Sud-Est par la Mélanésie et Fidji, a donné naissance à la culture polynésienne et constitue un facteur déterminant pour l'exploitation des ressources halieutiques. J'évoquerai donc briévement la configuration géographique de l'archipel, les origines de son peuplement, son histoire et son organisation sociale spécifique ainsi que son evolution démographique récente pour mettre en évidence les effets de ces contraintes et influences de tous ordres sur le système d'exploitation des ressources de l'océan et son évolution. J'examinerai la situation des pêcheurs et les facteurs qui ont pu modifier leur identité, leur représentativité et leur rapport avec la mer. Mon approche sera essentiellement historique et anthropologique et je laisserai aux biologistes le soin d'étudier les stocks halieutiques et aux économistes celui de recueillir, de suivre et d'interpréter des chiffres et des statistiques qui manquent souvent de cohérence et de fiabilité. J'aborderai donc la pêche et les pêcheurs aux îles Tonga en termes qualitatifs plutôt que quantitatifs. (Résumé d'auteur

Taxing Emissions, Not Income: How to Moderate the Regional Impact of Federal Environment Policy

Canadian policymakers have the policy tools needed to ameliorate the regional economic harm that taxing GHG emissions can cause. A price on GHG emissions will affect Canadian provinces differently, possibly undermining support for a policy that incurs regional transfers of income. The authors recommend returning to the provinces the revenues collected through auctioned emissions permits, so that they may offer personal and corporate income tax relief, all to moderate the regional impact of GHG carbon policy. Allowing provinces to retain the revenues collected from auctioned emissions permits would achieve a greater degree of regional equity than the other policy options.Economic Growth and Innovation, GHG emissions, GHG carbon policy. Canadian federal policy, regional impacts of climate policy