Southern Exposure is an award-winning print journal and magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation and won several awards, including a National Magazine Award and two George Polk Awards, for its writing and investigative reporting on a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues in the South.

Vol. 13 No. 6 - November/December 1985
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Magazine cover that reads "We Are Here Forever: Indians in the South"

We Are Here Forever

  • We Are Here Forever

    An introduction, by Maxine Alexander

    12

  • New Orleans

    A poem, by Joy Harjo

    16

  • Fighting Hun Tashuk Teek

    The Seminoles vs. Florida, by James Billie

    17

  • "The Earth Is Us"

    A case of sacred right, by Jose Barreiro

    21

  • Future Light or Feu-Follet?

    Louisiana Indians and Federal recognition, by Bruce Duthu and Hilde Objibway

    24

  • Canvas Ghosts

    Art by Phyllis Fife

    33

  • Black, White, and "Other"

    The struggle for recognition, by Forest Hazel

    34

  • Horse Story

    Two generations of a family tale, by Linda Henderson

    38

  • When Awi Usdi Walked Among Us

    Reunion at Red Clay, by Marilou Awiakta

    45

  • Remember the Removal

    Tracing the Trail of Tears: a photo essay, by the Cherokee Board of Education, photos by Tom Fields

    50

  • Skins, Rum, and Ruin

    The colonial deerskin trade, by David Wilcox

    57

  • Conjurer and Girl With a Flashlight

    Art, by William Taylor

    61

  • "You Would Have Made Such a Good Indian"

    Passages from the autobiography of Gideon Lincecum, by Peter Wood

    62

  • "We Can't Turn Back"

    The Catawba land claim, by Scott Derks

    67

  • Keeping Pace With the Rest of the World

    A short story, by Wilma Mankiller

    72

  • Face

    A poem, by Thomas Raine Crowe

    77

  • Chahta Hapia Hoke

    Choctaw economic development, by Susan Weill

    78

  • From Adversity to Progress

    The Lumbee of North Carolina, by Adolph L. Dial, interviews by Geoff Mangum

    85

  • Seeing Twice

    Shamanism, Berdache, and homoeroticism, by Robert Lynch

    90

  • Indians of the Southern States

    94

  • Readers Corner

    The issue of sovereignty, by John A. Folk-Williams

    2

  • Southern News Roundup

    Alabama voting rights, Mayans in Florida, labor on TV, and more

    3

  • Voices of Our Neighbors

    Our Hearts are Not on the Ground: a roundtable disucssion on South African and U.S. oppression, by Maxine Alexander, Ashaki Binta, Motlalepula Chabaku, Donna Chavis, and Candy Hamilton

    7

  • Facing South

    "As Good as Grandmama's," by Scott Derks

    11

  • Bulletin Board of the South

    104
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