American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 49-61
Description
Discussion of public domain trust allotments, a class of specific lands, for individuals, created by the General Allotment Act of 1887 and the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act (NIFRMA).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 43-60
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Looks at basketball in works of fiction such as James Welch's The Indian Lawyer and Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Reservation Blues.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 197-227
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Looks at what is know about the problem of diabetes, why it persists, why rates of it have dramatically increased, and the article also suggests some general directions for further inquiry.
Current Anthropology, vol. 24, no. 4, August-October 1983, pp. 443-470
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A gender mixing phenomenon in which individuals, usually male, adopt some of the social characteristics, occupational roles, clothing and sexual behaviours of the opposite sex.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1-28
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Argues that a closer look at humour, in the work of Rowlandson, provides readers with a greater understanding of the Algonquian side of early cross-cultural relations and reveals the ways in which cultural discomfort and disharmony are not rare, but rather integral concepts for early American identity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, 1983, pp. 3-28
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Evaluates the effects of several reform movements that challenged Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) domination over Native American reservation communities in the 1970's.
Towards 2012, Part III: Culture and Language, 1997, p. [?]
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Discusses different characteristics of Clowns in different tribes from the Oglala and Lakota to the Salish and Hopis and the importance of the Clowns to the community spirit.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 27-40
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Discusses and compares the literary methods of two Indigenous writers to encourage readers to perceive their own connection between personal and mythic space in their own lives.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 299-320
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Author examines both the text and its reception to offer a critical analysis of factors that affect the interaction between dominant and marginalized cultures including acts of appropriation on the part of reviewers, and the devaluing of oral literatures.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 149-157
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Reviews three books, each providing a life history of an Indigenous male: Blackfoot warrior Red Crow, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, and Nuumuu farm labourer Corbett Mack.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 159-161
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Video review of: The Place of Falling Water produced by Roy Bigcrane and Thompson Smith about the experiences of the Salish and Kootenai peoples on the Flathead Reservation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 483-497
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Literary criticism article in which the author examines the Silko’s novel and its relevance to Laguna narratives of land, territory, resistance, and cultural survivance.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1997, pp. [69]-80
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Compares and contrasts the two authors' approaches to the representation of history and the interaction of Native American and European culture.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 451-470
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Authors discuss different positions and policies on resource extraction from traditional Diné territories and how these have created and maintained poverty conditions on the Navajo Reservation in Utah.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1997, pp. [1]-10
Description
Contends that there are parallels between the Aboriginal philosophy of balancing the world as it is, and maintaining traditions, and the Western concept of pragmatism.
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American Journalism, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter, 1997, pp. 3-18
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Argues that the publication mirrored the attitudes of mainstream society in it's idealized version of the past and promotion of assimilation as "progress", but its founder displayed little understanding of issues confronting traditional Native Americans.
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American Journal of Public Health, vol. 87, no. 5, May 1997, pp. 827-832
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Study examines prevalence of psychiatric disorders, social and family risk factors for disorders, and met and unmet needs for mental health care among Appalachian youth.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication ; 80th, 1997. History Division
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Beth A. Haller
Description
Agues that publications served an advocacy purpose to combat the negative attitudes held by the general public, but only presented what would further cause these attitudes, not the true opinions of students.
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Justice as Healing: A Newsletter on Aboriginal Concepts of Justice
Punishment versus Healing: How Does Traditional Indian Law Work?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
ÓJames W. Zion
Justice as Healing, vol. 2, no. 3, Fall, 1997, p. [?]
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Author states that Canadian and American legal law systems are built on a relationship of superiors to inferiors; are premised on punitive measures, whereas most Indigenous societies are by consensus and equality-based.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 145-162
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Descriptions of basketry in the novel Ramona and discussion of the literary accounts, basketry collections, and ethnographic experiences of the author, Helen Hunt Jackson, which may have inspired some passages.
Journal of Nutrition, vol. 127, no. 10S, October 1997, pp. 2078S-2084S
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Discussion of survey conducted in 1991 and 1992 which gathered population-based health status information in order to understand prevalence of chronic disease.