Red Land, Red Power

“Red Land, Red Power provides convincing arguments for why an American Indian epistemology rooted in experience and politics has greater pertinence to American Indian social realities as well as scholarship; further, it cogently argues for a tribal episteme with strategies and language that have legitimacy in traditional academe.” - Penelope Kelsey, Great Plains Quarterly

“Scholars who are interested in trickster theory and epistemological studies will benefit from Teuton’s analysis. . .” - Michael Terry, Western American Literature

“Teuton provides an historical perspective that will bolster the efforts of Native Americans to restore and enhance both their tribal and individual identities. . . . Native American scholars will find Teuton’s meticulous historical research and contemporary literary analysis valuable in the search for a practical means to evaluate the future of Indian country.” - Jason Waterman, Australasian Journal of American Studies

“Teuton’s useful and engaging study. . . . offers powerful incentive to both turn back and reread the Red Power texts and to turn forward to the new writing that is giving us new, expanded ways to understand tribal histories, communities, and people. His book is a most welcome addition to a newly energized body of Native criticism.” - Lucy Maddox, American Indian Culture and Research Journal

“Red Land, Red Power is a terrific book. Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a critique and reconstruction of current theoretical discussions in literary studies about identity and experience as they affect the reception and production of Native literature. He argues for a ‘tribal realist’ approach as the critical framework that allows for a sophisticated, nuanced, and empowering analysis of American Indian literature.” - Paula Moya, author of Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles

“Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a powerful vision of American Indian literary studies and its dialogue with contemporary literary criticism. He understands how to connect theoretical discussion to the practical politics of Indian culture and literature. Every scholar in the field will want to read this book.” - Robert Dale Parker, author of The Invention of Native American Literature

“Red Land, Red Power is an exciting and important book. . . . It is an important book for students invested in how the written word and real-world politics connect, including those in Native studies, (anti-)colonial studies, postcolonial studies, third-world studies, and ecocriticism. Red Land, Red Power also celebrates just how much literature and literary studies can do in understanding and resisting colonization—in the book, in the classroom, and in material places where marginalized voices are still trying to be heard.” - Melinda DiStefano, Contemporary Literature

“[Teuton’s] work is a powerful text that debunks old myths and creates a framework for seeing the world for what it is. Red Land, Red Power is a must-read.” - Lee Maracle, Times Higher Education

“His interpretive work will be particularly valuable to historians considering the use of these red power novels, because his approach is carefully grounded in historical context and deeply informed by prior criticism. . . . Teuton offers tangible evidence of not only red power, but also the power of literary language in the indigenous struggle with a legacy of colonialism that remains visible throughout Indian country.” - Michael A. Elliot, Journal of American History

“Informative from the start, [Teuton] interrogates essentialist critiques of Native literary culture by Native intellectuals, problematizes trickster critical discourse, and parries the vocabulary of Native studies while acknowledging how Indians have transformed English, achieving pantribal meanings manifest in prose. . . . Philosophically challenging yet reader friendly, this book is a must read. Essential.” - R. Welburn, Choice

“Teuton has a keen ability to convey how tribal relationships that are based in kinship and that have endured long histories of colonial confrontations with the United States are essential to understanding these novels’ characters and dramatic tensions.” - Kendall Johnson, American Literature