Steve Russell (writer)

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Steve Russell
Born1947
Bristow, Oklahoma
NationalityCherokee Nation
EducationMaster of Judicial Studies, University of Nevada at Reno, 1993. Thesis: “Ethnic Cleansing and Land Ownership: Why the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Does Not Protect Native American Graves in Texas.”

J.D., University of Texas, 1975.

B.S.Ed., magna cum laude, University of Texas at Austin, 1972.

High school dropout (9th grade).

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Occupation(s)Professor Emeritus, Author
Website https://steverussell-9575.medium.com

Steve Russell, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, was a poet, journalist and academic, as well as a former trial court judge and Associate Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice, Indiana University Bloomington.

Early life and education

Despite being Cherokee, Russell was raised in the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma.

Cherokee politics

Russell was frequently critical of "wannabe" Indians - that is to say, people who claim falsely and without tribal recognition to have a Native American identity. He was one of the earliest critics of Andrea Smith, calling her out in a 2008 editorial in the major American Indian new outlet, Indian Country Media Network. [1] He has also long documented corruption and bullying within Cherokee tribal politics. [2]

The Native American Journalists Association twice recognized Russell's work, honoring his op-ed columns "Full-Blooded Indians—Face the Most Anti-Indian Racism" in 2013 and "Blacks and Indians Should Stand Together Against a Common Oppressor" in 2014 as the best Native op-eds in those years.

Academic writing

Russell's Sequoyah Rising: Problems in Post-Colonial Tribal Governance is probably his best-known work. Described by the American Indian Quarterly as being concerned "with the bases of tribal citizenship," [3] the book discusses the problems of Indian identity in the context of continuing US occupation and encroachment. Tom Holm wrote in Wíčazo Ša Review that "Russell's concise and insightful presentation of the course of American Indian policy is exceptional and should immediately be adopted by all who teach courses on Native American history and law," [4] while the European Journal of American Studies noted that "Although clear that much of the blame for this must lie with a combination of federal government attempts to destroy Native control over Native affairs and a colonial culture of welfare dependency, nonetheless Russell argues that the power to self-organize means that many of the solutions lie in Indian hands." [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Russell: When does ethnic fraud matter? - Indian Country Media Network".
  2. ↑ "Indian Country Today". Indiancountrymedianetwork.com. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  3. ↑ Cornell, Stephen (November 15, 2011). "Sequoyah Rising: Problems in Post-Colonial Tribal Governance (review)". The American Indian Quarterly. 35 (3): 473–475 – via Project MUSE.
  4. ↑ Holm, Tom (November 15, 2011). "Sequoyah Rising: Problems in Post-Colonial Tribal Governance (review)" . Wíčazo Ša Review. 26 (2): 108–109. doi:10.1353/wic.2011.0016. S2CID   161348502 – via Project MUSE.
  5. ↑ Mackay, James (September 2, 2011). "Scott Richard Lyons, X-marks: Native Signatures of Assent. , Steve Russell, Sequoyah Rising: Problems in Post-Colonial Tribal Governance. , Sean Kicummah Teuton, Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel. , Gerald Vizenor, Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance". European Journal of American Studies. doi: 10.4000/ejas.9179 . S2CID   251974017 – via journals.openedition.org.
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