Review of \u3ci\u3eRed Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel\u3c/i\u3e by Sean Kicummah Teuton

In Red Land, Red Power, Cherokee scholar Sean Kicummah Teuton considers three Red Power novels by N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, and Leslie Marmon Silko with a methodology he terms tribal realism. Teuton defines tribal realism as a \u27postpositivist realist\u27 view, which allows for genuine debate and exchange across cultures, while still respecting how social location may grant special access to knowledge. Teuton finds the novels of the Red Power era especially significant for investigation in his forging of tribal realism because of a new intellectual rigor that ... characterize[d] the Red Power movement, citing the proclamation by Indians of All Tribes from occupied Alcatraz Island as a signal example of this shift. Moreover, Teuton argues that the Red Power novel enacts an empirical process of decolonization which is linked to identity and experience, thus illustrating its engagement of a postpositivist realist episteme and an alternative, historically grounded theory