Editor's Commentary

Editor's Commentary Lloyd L. Lee (bio) Yá'át'ééh! I hope everyone is doing well. Volume 36, number 2 is an important edition with four articles, four book reviews, and eleven tribute reflection essays honoring the life and impact of one of the journal's founders, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. This edition focuses on a variety of topics and shares insightful book reviews. On July 5, 2023, one of the journal's founding editors, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, passed to the spirit world. We want to honor her life and the impact she made on so many educators, scholars, and Indigenous peoples. We sent out a call for reflection essays in September 2023 and asked scholars, researchers, activists, writers, and community members to reflect upon the profound influence of Cook-Lynn's research, writing, teaching, activism, career, and personal lives. This issue contains a total of eleven tribute reflection essays, but it is only a glimpse into Cook-Lynn's life and influence. The reflection essays show the personal connections each of the individuals had with Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and the enormous influence and impact she will continue to have with regard to the discipline, Indigenous communities, and Native Nations. This journal would not exist without Cook-Lynn's vision, hard work, and strength to build and mature the field of American Indian/Native American studies. We know the journal will continue to honor her legacy and advance American Indian/Native American studies. The first article, Kerri J. Malloy's "California Genocide: A Historiography of Settler Innocence," examines settler-colonial impetus for anti-Indigenous violence at the state, regional, and tribal [End Page v] levels. This article promotes a settler-colonial analytic to interrogate settler colonialism in California and the genocide of Indigenous peoples. Malloy advocates for further scholarly inquiry and case studies to provide context and illuminate the settler-colonial framework. The second article, "Mapping Tahlequah History: A Collaboration to Learn and Teach about Cherokee Places in Northeastern Oklahoma," by Dave Corcoran, Farina King, Justin T. McBride, and John McIntosh, began as a roundtable at the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the American Indian Studies Association in February 2023 at Arizona State University. The article describes a mapping project where students worked with communities to create narratives to help the public better understand the layers of history surrounding the diverse populations of Tahlequah and the region of Green Country in northeastern Oklahoma. The region is home to the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees. This piece focuses on a region of Oklahoma where Indigenizing mapping and collaborating among Native and non-Native communities and peoples occurs. The third article, "SING 2019 Talking Circle: Indigenous Perspectives on Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management in North America," by Arlana M. Redsky, Latiya Northwest, Ashlyn Jensen-Fisk, Tanelle Smith, Katie Neimeyer, Avery Newman-Simmons, Chyloe Healy, Morgan Hyrcak, Jenna Burke, Khalyd Clay, Warren Cardinal-McTeague, Naomí Carriere, John Turn, K'alii Stewart, and Elder Grace Cook, is about the Summer internship for Indigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada training program held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 2019. Indigenous students, nation members, Elders, and early career Indigenous scientists came together to participate in an intensive training program on chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids (deer, moose, elk, and caribou). The participants came together to demonstrate the greater needs for Indigenous engagement and consultation on CWD and the inclusion of comprehensive Indigenous perspectives emphasizing interconnection between living and non-living beings. The fourth article, "Raven Evades the Anthropocene: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and Environmental Disaster," by Aandax̱joon Sabena Allen, explores Lingít (Tlingit) Raven stories and their ability to undermine Anthropocene logics. The narratives illustrate long-standing Lingít means of dealing with catastrophe still valuable in the present. The article makes the case that Indigenous narratives exceed Anthropocene thinking and represent a more generative framework in considering climate change. Along with the four articles, four book reviews are a part of this issue. The books reviewed are This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments (2022), by [End Page vi] McKenzie Long, reviewed by Annabel G. LaBrecque; Seven Aunts (2022), by Staci Lola...

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