North Dakota

Identifies sources of strength and optimism of Native American women living in North and South Dakota.

This presentation text examines different sites and incidents of neocolonial violence and Aboriginal activism as defiance in response; asserts the basis of Native Studies is “indigenousness and sovereignty” and examines the implications of these concepts for activism and resistance movements.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2006.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 22 (p.285-344 , 1 map).

An analysis of the art installation performed and exhibited in 2018 and discussion of how the artist's works express resistance to the proposed oil pipeline and energy extraction projects going through or near Indigenous lands in the U.S. and Canada.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Illinois University, 1996.

An account of an 1851 skirmish between a band of Sioux and Métis.

Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Lethbridge, 2006.

Article profiles two Elders, Lorraine Greybear and Vernon Lambert, who are teaching Dakota language and culture to students at Cankdeska Cikana Community College.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 1992.

Comments on a protest between Indigenous people and their allies and the Dakota Access Pipeline

Description and discussion of human and other effigy sites.

Toolkit to be used as resource for organizations working with communities within the Northern Plains tribal culture.

Written account of the oral history of the Mandan as dictated to Edward Goodbird by Butterfly who was the keeper of the words of the winter count.

Description, field diary and pictures of Alice Fletcher's (1834-1923) six-week travels to Dakota territory in the fall of 1881. Includes photos of Sitting Bull.

Educational Leadership Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Dakota, 2006.

English Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Fresno, 1997.

Focuses on public health research projects being conducted at two tribal colleges in North Dakota, including the development of a grade K-12 diabetes based science curriculum and looking at genetic research on toxemia.

Comparative study conducted with mothers of Aboriginal children diagnosed FAS between 1981 and 1993 and mothers whose children had no symptoms of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Diary excerpts that relate the daily experiences of an office and an enlisted soldier after Rosebud and Little Bighorn battles.

In this piece the authors discuss the funding, structure, goals, and vision of The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s (CRCAIH) Partnership River of Life to provided context for the rest of the special issue which shares some of the research and community results which came out of the partnership.

Study done at the Standing Rock Community Elementary School, North Dakota.

Looks at the social price that came with gaming and greater self-government in North Dakota.

Argues that archaeological data supports theory that the bison-hunting peoples did not abandon the Northern Plains from 5500-3000 B.C.

Originally published: 1917.

Physical Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1982.

Discusses how tribal colleges in Montana and North Dakota are initiating new innovative accelerated curriculum programs to address the region’s workforce necessities.

Paper combines interviews and legal scholarship to discuss the outcomes of oil extraction in Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation (MHA) territory while considering past appropriations of tribal land, environmental consequences, and Indigenous sovereignty.

Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses.children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2003.

Illustrated with drawings from Captain Eastman

Author combines academic theory and personal experience at the Oceti Sakowin, Standing Rock water protectors' camp to discuss the phenomenon of protest camps and their social, political and educational characteristics.

Presents a personal narrative describing the author's promotion of Native American Health Care.

Presents all the data and observations contained in Thompson's diary, not just the previously published edited version.

Describes the Wicozani Instrument as a 9-item self-report measure that which assesses health and well-being using a holistic, Indigenous world view. Describes two studies in which the validity and reliability of the instrument is verified.

Suggests that due to the disruption of traditional food systems of Native Americans, type 2 diabetes is at epidemic levels and discusses ways to restore nutritional balance with healthier food choices.

Briefly explains reasons for the out-migration from Manitoba after the Red River Resistance and the 1885 Resistance, including disappearance of the bison-hunting economy, failure of agriculture, influx of settlers, racism, changes to legislation, and flaws in the Scrip system.

Five papers describe the Akira Language Project implemented at White Shield School in North Dakota, Nakoda Language Program at Fort Belknap College in Montana and the development of tools for computer language documentation at the American Indian Studies Research Institute. Excerpt from Revitalizing Indigenous Languages edited by John Reyhner, Gina Cantoni, Robert N. St. Clair, and Evangeline Parsons.

Notes (seemingly handwritten copies of an original document) on Captain John Palliser's Winter Trip from Fort Union to White Earth River in January 1848.

Ethnomusicology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Discusses how colonization has disrupted communities' relationship with the land, efforts to restore the connection on the reservation, and how ideas about tradition and sustainability are linked to food sovereignty.