January 17, 2003

Challenging the Status Quo in Native American Studies

By PETER MONAGHAN

CRITICAL MASS: The University of Nebraska Press hopes to shake up academic perspectives on American Indians with a new series called Contemporary Indigenous Issues. It will be edited by Devon Abbott Mihesuah, a professor of applied indigenous studies at Northern Arizona University, who is the editor of American Indian Quarterly.

"Not until now has there been a critical mass of Native intellectual activists willing to step forward and challenge the status quo," says Ms. Mihesuah, an