Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity: Building a Text Corpus of American Indian Magazines, 1890-1930

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Oliver Scheiding
• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 441689155

• Final Report Year: 2024

Final Report Abstract

The project "Native American Periodicals: Cataloging a Corpus of Indigenous Periodicals between 1890 and 1930" pursues three goals: First, to index the widely dispersed and little researched Indigenous periodical corpus spread across archives in the U.S.; second, to systematically chart the differentiating Indigenous media content and pluralization of the Indigenous periodical genre since the 1890s; and third, to explore Indigenous periodicals as materialized sign systems and media of an Indigenous modernity. With its focus on the understudied archive of Indigenous periodicals, the project will broaden research perspectives and link current work in the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) with Periodical Studies and American Studies. By examining the differentiation of the interplay between mass media and the Indigenous periodicalists in the USA, the project makes a decisive contribution to the re-evaluation of Indigenous modernity and its (trans)local media ecologies. It shows how Indigenous modernity has been communicated and materialized through Indigenous periodicals since the 19th century.

Publications

• FB 05 – DFG Blog – Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity
  Scheiding, O. & F. Newton
  
• Indigenous Periodicals: American Indian Newspapers and Magazines, 1887–1934: An Anthology
  Scheiding, O. & Frank Newton
  
• Indigenous Agency: The Case of the Eskimo Bulletin (1893-1902)? 9th ESPRit conference Periodical Formats in the Market: Economies of Space & Time, Competition & Transfer. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, September 2020
  Newton, F.
  
• babaamaajimoo-mazina’igan: Indigenous Periodicals as Multimodal Archives. Modern Language Association Convention 2022, Washington, Januar 2022
  Scheiding, O.
  
• Für Vielfalt. Handbuch Zeitschriftenforschung, 449-458. transcript Verlag.
  Newton, Frank
  
• Writing Democracy in Serialized Media. Legal Discoure in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Native American Periodicals. DGfA Tübingen, Juni 2022
  Newton, F.
  
• "You Could Speak the Truth with a Tongue of Fire": The Cultural and Political Work of Indigenous Periodicals. American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism, 33(2), 93-118.
  Stanciu, Cristina; Scheiding, Oliver & Doerfler, Jill
  
• Indi/ymedia: Do-It-Yourself Space Making and Indigenous Zine Series, DFG- Konferenz: Serial Circulation. Print Cultures and Periodical Modernities, Universität Siegen, Juni 2023
  Scheiding, O.
  
• Indi/ymedia: Do-It-Yourself Space Making and Indigenous Zine Series. 11th ESPRit conference “Periodicals and Belongings”, Leeds, Juni 2023
  Scheiding, O.
  
• Indigenous Periodicals. Special Issue. American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography 33.2
  Scheiding, O.; C. Stanciu & J. Doerfler
  
• Magazines as a Resource for Literary Studies: A Roundtable. 34th Annual Conference on American Literature (ALA), Mai 2023
  Scheiding, O., J. Ernst, Y. Khalighi, L. Kleinstück & F. Newton
  
• Native American Periodicals: The Art and Politics of Early Twentieth Century Indigenous Printscapes. Amerikastudien/American Studies, 69(2), 111-132.
  Scheiding, O.
  
• The Old Adjusted to the New Conditions: Graphic-Visual Elements in Early 20th Century Native American Periodicals. Gastvortrag an der Universität Bordeaux-Montaigne
  Newton, F.