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Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Book

Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 2003. Paperback edition, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Edited Books

Writing the Cross Culture: Native Fictions on the White Man's Religion. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006.

For This Land: Writings on Religion in America by Vine Deloria Jr. New York and London: Routledge, 1999.

Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.

Articles

"Inscribing the Wound World: Human Fiction on the White Man's Religion." In Writing the Cross Culture: Native Fiction on the White Man's Religion, edited by James Treat, 188-194. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006.

"Intertribal Traditionalism and the Religious Roots of Red Power." In Native American Spirituality: A Critical Reader, edited by Lee Irwin, 270-294. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

"Contemporary Native Religious Identity: The Indian Ecumenical Conference." In A Struggle for Identity: Indigenous People in Asia/Pacific, Existence and Expectations, edited by P. Jegadish Gandhi and George Cheriyan, 3-12. Chennai, India: Association of Christian Institutes for Social Concern in Asia, 2000.

"Introduction: An American Critique of Religion." In Vine Deloria Jr., For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, edited by James Treat, 1-18. New York and London: Routledge, 1999.

"Religion and American Culture." In American Religion Course Outlines, edited by Conrad Cherry. Indianapolis, IN: Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University / Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1998. Also available at http://www.iupui.edu/~raac/youngscholars/syllabi19971999/history/treat.html.

"Introduction: Native Christian Narrative Discourse." In Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada, edited by James Treat, 1-26. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.

"Native People and Interreligious Dialogue in North America: The Indian Ecumenical Conference." Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 6, no. 1 (1996): 29-45.

"The Indigenous Movement in the Americas: Reflections on Nationalism and Ethnicity" (with Guillermo Delgado-P. and Teri Greeves). In First Nations / Pueblos Originarios, Occasional Papers of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas no. 2, edited by Patricia Pierce Erikson, 1-10. Davis, CA: University of California, Department of Native American Studies, 1996.

"The Challenge of the Past: A Native American Perspective." In The Challenges of the Past, the Challenges of the Future, edited by John L. Kater Jr., 25-41. Berkeley, CA: Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 1994.

"Teaching Tribal/Reservation History OFF the Reservation." In Teaching and Writing Local History: Lac Courte Oreilles, Occasional Papers in Curriculum Series no. 16, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, 14-31. Chicago, IL: The Newberry Library, D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, 1994.

"Engaging Students with Native American Community Resources." American Quarterly 45, no. 4 (December 1993): 621-630.

Conference Proceedings

"Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era." In Summary of Proceedings, Fifty-Eighth Annual Conference of the American Theological Library Association, edited by Jonathan West, 41-49. Chicago, IL: American Theological Library Association, 2004.

"Intertribal Traditionalism and the Religious Roots of Red Power." In Proceedings of the 1998 and 1999 Southwest/Texas Regional Conferences of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association, edited by Peter C. Rollins, Denny Kramer, and Glenn Broadhead. CD-ROM. Lubbock, TX: Southwest/Texas Regional PCA/ACA, 2000.

Review Essay

Review of Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction, edited by Daniel Francis; Going Some Place: Creative Non-Fiction Across Canada, edited by Lynne Van Luven; and Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction, edited by Rasunah Marsden. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 7, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 121-123.

Reviews

Review of The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns, by Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 260-262.

Review of Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent: Indian Visionary and Activist, edited by Jay C. Fikes. Studies in American Indian Literatures 10, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 86-88. Also available at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/SAIL2/101.html#86.

"Book offers insightful and impassioned view of Chilocco," review of They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Muscogee Nation News 27, no. 1 (January 1998): 10.

Review of Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact, by Vine Deloria Jr. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 1, no. 1 (October 1997): 163-165.

Review of Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology, edited by Thomas Biolsi and Larry J. Zimmerman. American Studies 38, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 135-136.

"Tracking Jesus, Trapping Christ," review of Christ is a Native American, by Achiel Peelman. Cross Currents: The Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life 47, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 415-417. Also available at http://www.aril.org/booksf97a.htm#peelman.

"Historical overview provides good start for inquisitive readers," review of The Creeks, by Michael D. Green. Muscogee Nation News 26, no. 8 (August 1997): 2.

"Anthology includes post-removal Muscogee authors," review of Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875-1935, edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins. Muscogee Nation News 26, no. 7 (July 1997): 16.

Review of Completing the Circle, by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. Studies in American Indian Literatures 9, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 94-95. Also available at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/SAIL2/92.html#94.

"Citizen's autobiography one of hope and endurance," review of Son of Two Bloods, by Vincent L. Mendoza. Muscogee Nation News 26, no. 5 (May 1997): 3.

Review of Severing the Ties that Bind: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies, by Katherine Pettipas. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 20, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 262-265.

Review of On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, A Pequot, edited by Barry O'Connell. American Indian Religions 1, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 191-192.

Edited Manuscripts

"Native American Intellectuals: Annotated Bibliographies by UNM Students, Volume 1." Zimmerman Library Reference Collection, University of New Mexico, 1996. Bound photocopy.

"Native American Tribal Histories: Annotated Bibliographies by UCSC Students, Volume 2." University Library Reference Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1995. Bound photocopy.

"Native American Tribal Histories: Annotated Bibliographies by UCSC Students, Volume 1." University Library Reference Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994. Bound photocopy.

Syllabi

"Religion and American Culture." AAR Syllabus Project, edited by Michel Desjardins. Online website. Committee on Teaching and Learning, American Academy of Religion, 1999. Available at http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/syllabi/t/treat/religion_and_american_culture-treat.html.

"Native American Worldviews." AAR Syllabus Project, edited by Michel Desjardins. Online website. Committee on Teaching and Learning, American Academy of Religion, 1999. Available at http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/syllabi/t/treat/native_american_worldviews-treat.html.

"Native Americans and Christianity." AAR Syllabus Project, edited by Michel Desjardins. Online website. Committee on Teaching and Learning, American Academy of Religion, 1999. Available at http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/syllabi/t/treat/native_americans_and_christianity-treat.html.

Essays

"On Laughing and Praying." Native Americas 13, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 64. Also available at http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1057587108.

"The Canaanite Problem" (revised version). Daughters of Sarah 20, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 20-24.

"The Canaanite Problem." California Nevada United Methodist Review 9, no. 15 (July 17, 1992): 2-3.

"Ecumenism in Action: The Bay Area Native American Ministry." Ecu-log 5, no. 2 (July 1990): 3.

"Building on the Rock." Primetime, November 1985: 1.

"The Day of the Lord." The Upward Call, July 1985: 1-2.

Fiction

"The Great Debate." Déjà Vu, Spring 1984: 9.

"He Called It Murder." Déjà Vu, Spring 1984: 38.

Poetry

"There Becomes Home." In Where the Heart Is: Reflections on the Meaning of Home, edited by Julienne Bennett and Mimi Luebbermann, 150-151. Berkeley, CA: Wildcat Canyon Press, 1995.

James Treat	Publications
Curriculum Vitae	Book Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 2003. Paperback edition, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Edited Books Writing the Cross Culture: Native Fictions on the White Man's Religion. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006. For This Land: Writings on Religion in America by Vine Deloria Jr. New York and London: Routledge, 1999. Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. Articles "Inscribing the Wound World: Human Fiction on the White Man's Religion." In Writing the Cross Culture: Native Fiction on the White Man's Religion, edited by James Treat, 188-194. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006. "Intertribal Traditionalism and the Religious Roots of Red Power." In Native American Spirituality: A Critical Reader, edited by Lee Irwin, 270-294. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. "Contemporary Native Religious Identity: The Indian Ecumenical Conference." In A Struggle for Identity: Indigenous People in Asia/Pacific, Existence and Expectations, edited by P. Jegadish Gandhi and George Cheriyan, 3-12. Chennai, India: Association of Christian Institutes for Social Concern in Asia, 2000. "Introduction: An American Critique of Religion." In Vine Deloria Jr., For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, edited by James Treat, 1-18. New York and London: Routledge, 1999. "Religion and American Culture." In American Religion Course Outlines, edited by Conrad Cherry. Indianapolis, IN: Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University / Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1998. Also available at http://www.iupui.edu/~raac/youngscholars/syllabi19971999/history/treat.html. "Introduction: Native Christian Narrative Discourse." In Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada, edited by James Treat, 1-26. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. "Native People and Interreligious Dialogue in North America: The Indian Ecumenical Conference." Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 6, no. 1 (1996): 29-45. "The Indigenous Movement in the Americas: Reflections on Nationalism and Ethnicity" (with Guillermo Delgado-P. and Teri Greeves). In First Nations / Pueblos Originarios, Occasional Papers of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas no. 2, edited by Patricia Pierce Erikson, 1-10. Davis, CA: University of California, Department of Native American Studies, 1996. "The Challenge of the Past: A Native American Perspective." In The Challenges of the Past, the Challenges of the Future, edited by John L. Kater Jr., 25-41. Berkeley, CA: Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 1994. "Teaching Tribal/Reservation History OFF the Reservation." In Teaching and Writing Local History: Lac Courte Oreilles, Occasional Papers in Curriculum Series no. 16, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, 14-31. Chicago, IL: The Newberry Library, D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, 1994. "Engaging Students with Native American Community Resources." American Quarterly 45, no. 4 (December 1993): 621-630. Conference Proceedings "Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era." In Summary of Proceedings, Fifty-Eighth Annual Conference of the American Theological Library Association, edited by Jonathan West, 41-49. Chicago, IL: American Theological Library Association, 2004. "Intertribal Traditionalism and the Religious Roots of Red Power." In Proceedings of the 1998 and 1999 Southwest/Texas Regional Conferences of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association, edited by Peter C. Rollins, Denny Kramer, and Glenn Broadhead. CD-ROM. Lubbock, TX: Southwest/Texas Regional PCA/ACA, 2000. Review Essay Review of Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction, edited by Daniel Francis; Going Some Place: Creative Non-Fiction Across Canada, edited by Lynne Van Luven; and Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction, edited by Rasunah Marsden. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 7, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 121-123. Reviews Review of The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns, by Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 260-262. Review of Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent: Indian Visionary and Activist, edited by Jay C. Fikes. Studies in American Indian Literatures 10, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 86-88. Also available at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/SAIL2/101.html#86. "Book offers insightful and impassioned view of Chilocco," review of They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Muscogee Nation News 27, no. 1 (January 1998): 10. Review of Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact, by Vine Deloria Jr. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 1, no. 1 (October 1997): 163-165. Review of Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology, edited by Thomas Biolsi and Larry J. Zimmerman. American Studies 38, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 135-136. "Tracking Jesus, Trapping Christ," review of Christ is a Native American, by Achiel Peelman. Cross Currents: The Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life 47, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 415-417. Also available at http://www.aril.org/booksf97a.htm#peelman. "Historical overview provides good start for inquisitive readers," review of The Creeks, by Michael D. Green. Muscogee Nation News 26, no. 8 (August 1997): 2. "Anthology includes post-removal Muscogee authors," review of Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875-1935, edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins. Muscogee Nation News 26, no. 7 (July 1997): 16. Review of Completing the Circle, by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. Studies in American Indian Literatures 9, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 94-95. Also available at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/SAIL2/92.html#94. "Citizen's autobiography one of hope and endurance," review of Son of Two Bloods, by Vincent L. Mendoza. Muscogee Nation News 26, no. 5 (May 1997): 3. Review of Severing the Ties that Bind: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies, by Katherine Pettipas. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 20, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 262-265. Review of On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, A Pequot, edited by Barry O'Connell. American Indian Religions 1, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 191-192. Edited Manuscripts "Native American Intellectuals: Annotated Bibliographies by UNM Students, Volume 1." Zimmerman Library Reference Collection, University of New Mexico, 1996. Bound photocopy. "Native American Tribal Histories: Annotated Bibliographies by UCSC Students, Volume 2." University Library Reference Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1995. Bound photocopy. "Native American Tribal Histories: Annotated Bibliographies by UCSC Students, Volume 1." University Library Reference Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994. Bound photocopy. Syllabi "Religion and American Culture." AAR Syllabus Project, edited by Michel Desjardins. Online website. Committee on Teaching and Learning, American Academy of Religion, 1999. Available at http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/syllabi/t/treat/religion_and_american_culture-treat.html. "Native American Worldviews." AAR Syllabus Project, edited by Michel Desjardins. Online website. Committee on Teaching and Learning, American Academy of Religion, 1999. Available at http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/syllabi/t/treat/native_american_worldviews-treat.html. "Native Americans and Christianity." AAR Syllabus Project, edited by Michel Desjardins. Online website. Committee on Teaching and Learning, American Academy of Religion, 1999. Available at http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/syllabi/t/treat/native_americans_and_christianity-treat.html. Essays "On Laughing and Praying." Native Americas 13, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 64. Also available at http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1057587108. "The Canaanite Problem" (revised version). Daughters of Sarah 20, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 20-24. "The Canaanite Problem." California Nevada United Methodist Review 9, no. 15 (July 17, 1992): 2-3. "Ecumenism in Action: The Bay Area Native American Ministry." Ecu-log 5, no. 2 (July 1990): 3. "Building on the Rock." Primetime, November 1985: 1. "The Day of the Lord." The Upward Call, July 1985: 1-2. Fiction "The Great Debate." Déjà Vu, Spring 1984: 9. "He Called It Murder." Déjà Vu, Spring 1984: 38. Poetry "There Becomes Home." In Where the Heart Is: Reflections on the Meaning of Home, edited by Julienne Bennett and Mimi Luebbermann, 150-151. Berkeley, CA: Wildcat Canyon Press, 1995.
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