Indigenous Studies

Introduction to a special issue on interpretation and presentation of Native American history and culture; eight authors present perspectives on methods, ethics and issues of the non-Native American as the historian.

Author describes his experiences while enrolled in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oregon State University, 2017.

Discusses issues surrounding the study and teaching of Indigenous Studies from a Native American perspective.

Draws on the authors' experience in teaching a cross-cultural course to a predominantly non-Aboriginal class to identify attitudes that cause resistance to admitting racism is a problem.

First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2007.

Author articulates the barriers they feel Indigenous people face in the field of Native Studies, and the ways that contemporary Native Studies departments tend to favor non-Indigenous candidates in the hiring process.

Author, who is establishing an American Indian Studies program, looks at the issues raised in Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's seminal article "Who Stole Native American Studies?"

The author recounts how he has become a writer and shares his experience in discovering who he is and what he does.

Discusses mission statement of new master's degree program at the University of Kansas.

Discusses a joint project, which utilized online interactive discourse, between students of Western Washington University and Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish writer Louis Owens regarding his novel Wolfsong. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 27.

Discusses the scholarship of First Nations history from the 1950s to present and how this scholarship has grown from a marginal fragment to a very considerable and sophisticated history.

Looks at the absence of Native Americans' political issues and systems of governance in the discipline of Political Science.

Eulogy of Alfonso Ortiz who taught anthropology and Native American studies at the University of New Mexico.