Cynthia-Lou Coleman is Professor of Communication at Portland State University, USA. Coleman received a Fulbright-Canada Jarislowsky Foundation Visiting Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies and has served as a fellow with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Her work explores how discourse in the media frames conflict in Native American communities.

1. Introduction.

2. Buckshot for Brains: Cultivation of the American Indian Mind.

3. Hunting for Trophies and the Underbelly of Race.

4. The Underpinnings of Discourse.

5. We Came to Fight a Black Snake.

6. How resistance crystallized to resilience in the Kennewick Man controversy.

7. Concluding Remarks.