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Place and Native American Indian history and culture (2007)
Book
Porter, J. (2007). J. Porter (Ed.). Place and Native American Indian history and culture. Peer Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Review
«Place remains a native concept rich with political meaning for North American culture as a whole, and for the world as a whole. This volume undertakes a broad and deep exploration of what the sense of place has meant in specific Indian cultu... Read More about Place and Native American Indian history and culture.

No place to call home: The 1807-1857 life writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, chronicler of outlying Mormon communities (2006)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (2006). No place to call home: The 1807-1857 life writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, chronicler of outlying Mormon communities. Journal of the West, 45(1), 90

The article reviews the book "No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities," edited by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne and S. George Ellsworth.

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005)
Book
Porter, J., & Roemer, K. M. (Eds.). (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521822831

© Cambridge University Press 2005 and 2006. This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: Literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the presen... Read More about The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature.

Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature (2005)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2005). Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature. In J. Porter, & K. M. Roemer (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature : Part I - Historical and cultural contexts (39-68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521822831.002

Literature tells truths about the past that history cannot articulate. This is a truism with particular resonance in the Native American context because until the watershed years of the late 1960s and early 1970s Indians were either ignored or grossl... Read More about Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature.

To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (2001)
Book
Porter, J. (2001). To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker. University of Oklahoma Press

Born on the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York State, Arthur Caswell Parker (1881-1955) was a prominent intellectual leader both within and outside tribal circles. Of mixed Iroquois, Seneca, and Anglican descent, Parker was also a controversial fi... Read More about To be Indian: the life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker.

Contextualizing learning and teaching: Academics and the history curriculum of the future (1999)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (1999). Contextualizing learning and teaching: Academics and the history curriculum of the future. Innovations in education and teaching international, 36(3), 219-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/1355800990360307

This paper reviews the broader overall context to the current emphasis upon teaching and learning within university higher education in the UK and beyond. It considers how change might impact upon both the role of academic historian and the teaching... Read More about Contextualizing learning and teaching: Academics and the history curriculum of the future.

Native American freemasonry: associationalism and performance in America
Book
Porter, J. Native American freemasonry: associationalism and performance in America. The University of Hull

Described by Margaret C. Jacobs of UCLA as "A triumph of scholarship", this book applies the new analytical lens of performance to the study of Freemasonry. It also brings a rich set of completely new archival material into scholarly and popular view... Read More about Native American freemasonry: associationalism and performance in America.

Plenary lecture: Who Fights for Canada as the Climate Changes?
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porter, J. (2019, April). Plenary lecture: Who Fights for Canada as the Climate Changes?. Presented at British Association for Canadian Studies Annual Conference, 2019, The Eccles Centre for American Studies, London

This lecture addresses what is amongst Canada’s greatest challenges as the twenty-first century progresses – climate change and issues linked to the environment. The overall objective is to suggest that aspects of Canada’s self-image and self-represe... Read More about Plenary lecture: Who Fights for Canada as the Climate Changes?.