Haskell Indian Nations University

There is a movement across settler–colonial institutions of education and research to engage with Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges. Many settler and Indigenous governments are pursuing pathways to move forward together to address global problems such as climate change. However, given the pervasive history of exploitation and displacement of Indigenous communities, this development has caused some concern among Indigenous leaders and scholars. At the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in Montreal, Canada, the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section of the ESA hosted a 2‐day workshop. This gathering of 21 Indigenous environmental scientists included scholars from across the career and professional spectrum. By consensus, workshop participants identified three emergent themes—Engage, Heal, and Reconcile—that provide a pathway toward reconciliation between Indigenous and settler–colonial ways of knowing. This path allows for an ever‐greater sharing of institutional resources and power toward a co‐equal interfacing of Indigenous Knowledges and settler science.

I begin by revisiting Lawrence’s reading of Dana’s Two Years before the Mast reading it not as a critique of Dana but as a Lawrencian fiction in which the sea plays a central symbolic role. As Lawrence reflects on the vital relation of the human and the non-human, the sea seems to represent its destructive possibilities which Dana and Melville variously encounter, and thereby allow Lawrence to explore. In the Dana essay it is especially necessary, but not easy, to hold in focus the competing levels of the literal and scientific, on the one hand, and the metaphorical and visionary on the other. Sometimes the relation is strained as I suggest occurs in the flogging episode but this double vision is the basis for appreciating Lawrence’s representation of the sea.

This paper examines Lawrence’s contradictory attitudes to nationalism through his interest in the songs of the peoples in the places where he lived and their impact on his poetics and politics. The rhythms of English folk songs recur throughout his oeuvre, but it was the ‘Red Indian singing to the drum” (5L 570) that inspired his “song cycle” in The Plumed Serpent (1926). To what extent does this controversial novel reflect contemporary discourses of nationalism and/or cultural imperialism –or do his “Songs and Hymns of Quetzalcoatl” provide a voice for the people of Mexico and a musical programme for the reconstruction of the post-revolutionary Mexican nation?

It is well known that Lawrence made a high claim for the novel as uniquely suited for expressing and exploring the relational nature of life judgements. While this remains a classic account of the novel’s truth value there may be something to add, a silent premise regarding the creative dynamic of the form. For the novel is ultimately powered by the absolute. Considering Lawrence within the history of the European novel both before and after his time brings out the significance of this otherw...

Writing around 1950 the Mexican poet, Octavio Paz, attributed the defeat of the Aztecs to what he called “imperial fatigue.” This might have seemed a poet’s phrase, too fanciful for a serious historian, until a startlingly apt contemporary instance was provided by the sudden collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989. More specifically, Paz attributed the Aztecs’ defeat to their belief, even before the arrival of Hernán Cortés, that their gods had deserted them (Paz 85). Whether or not historical ...

In “A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” Lawrence defines “higher emotions” as “love in all its manifestations, from genuine desire to tender love, love of one’s fellow-men and love of God: we mean love, joy, delight, hope, true indignant anger, passionate sense of justice and injustice, truth and untruth, honour and dishonour, and real belief in anything” (LCL 312). The range of “higher emotions” is wide but what they seem to share is their intensity and authenticity. Even desire is conside...

This review of selected paper and electronic resources on Native American art describes what is available at the Haskell Indian Nations University Library and Archives in Lawrence, Kansas; the Institute of American Indian Arts Library and Archives in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the H.A. & Mary K. Chapman Library and Archives at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives at the Heard Museum Library in Phoenix, Arizona. These four institutions develop and maintain resources and collections on Native American art and make the information they contain about indigenous groups available not only to their users and other scholars but also to the wider world.

Abstract The fabrication and evaluation of pyrolyzed photoresist films (PPF) for microchip capillary electrophoresis (CE) with dual‐electrode electrochemical (EC) detection is described. The sensitivity, linearity, and reproducibility were evaluated using catecholamines and related compounds, including dopamine (DA), 5‐hydroxyindole‐3‐acetic acid (5‐HIAA), ascorbic acid (AA), and catechol. Initial studies with DA show the response of the PPF electrodes to be linear between 25 and 500 μM (r2=0.999) with a limit of detection (LOD) of 5 μM (S/N=3) and sensitivity of 5.8 pA/μM. Selectivity was further enhanced by employing dual‐electrode detection in the series configuration for detection of species exhibiting chemically reversible redox reactions.