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Category: 2. Brief overviews
INDE001. Independent American
Indian review. Volume 4, No. 1, North Carolina—Lumbee.
Access: Available for purchase from: Independent American
Indian review, 4801 S. Lakeshore Drive, Suite 202, Tempe, AZ 85282. Price
for one copy of the issue is $9.50.
Publication type: Magazine issue
This periodical’s purpose is to combat stereotypes
of American Indians; to serve as a teaching tool for classroom teachers
or parents, a training tool for businesses, or a learning tool for individuals;
and to provide book/media reviews and interviews with tribal professionals
or elders.
I found this issue very disappointing. First, it is closer
to a pamphlet than a periodical issue. It is only 26 pages long, and some
of those pages are taken up by descriptions of the journal, an order blank,
the table of contents, a photograph that does not relate to the Lumbee,
a message from the editor, guidelines for contributors, ads for a Native
American conference (in Phoenix) and a Native American artist (in Coolidge,
Arizona), and an author and title index to the 6 multimedia reviews included
in this issue. Of the six multimedia reviews, none were of books or media
dealing specifically with the Lumbee (and there are certainly items on
the Lumbee in print that could have been reviewed). The information on
the Lumbee is quite sketchy and sparse. It looks as if it all came from
Web pages and brochures.
In sum, I cannot recommend this issue for any of the
purposes it claims to serve. Educators and independent learners would
do better to read and use the other items listed on on this Web site—especially
given the periodical’s $9.50 price.
This annotation was edited on: June 20, 2003.
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