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The Impact of the Reading First Teacher Education Network on Increasing the Reading Proficiency of American Indian Children: How a Summer Reading Institute Brought Together Educators, Parents, and a Community

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
B. Denise Hawkins
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 45, no. 2, 2006, pp. 72-76
Description
Comments on a program, involving teachers, parents and students, designed to increase the reading proficiency of children on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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In a Government Indian School

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bertha S. Wilkins
Land of Sunshine, vol. 7, June-November 1897, pp. 242-247
Description
Teacher at the government boarding school operated on the Pima Indian Reservation, Arizona describes the personalities of individual students and relays anecdotes from the classroom. Reflects the attitudes and policies of the time.
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"In the End, Our Message Weighs": Blood Run, NAGPRA, and American Indian Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Penelope Kelsey
Cari M. Carpenter
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 56-74
Description
Discusses how "Blood Run" exposes the limitations of repatriation legislation, most significantly, how NAGPRA's current definition of American Indian identity falls short of sovereign tribal conceptions of identity and tribal responsibility for the repatriation of ancestral remains.
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"An Indian Allotment"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Francis La Flesche
[The Independent], vol. 52, no. 2710, November 8, 1900, pp. 2686-2688
Description
Author, relates a story of his experience with land allotments to the Omaha Indians.
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Indian Blues: The Indigenization of American Popular Music

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John W. Troutman
World Literature Today, vol. 83, no. 3, May/June 2009, pp. 42-46
Description
Discusses how Native American musicians have fused native music styles with other musical traditions to assimilate into United States culture.
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Indian Boarding Schools: A Case Study of Assimilation, Resistance, and Resilience

Alternate Title
[Contemporary American Indian History]
[Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the Yale National Initiative ; vol. 1, 2016]
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Barbara Prillaman
Description
Curriculum unit developed for high school students. Objective is for students to be able to answer the following questions: What is assimilation and its variety of terms and how are these sociological concepts related to Native American people? How was assimilation used as a discrimination tool against Native American people? How have Native American people resisted these assimilation attempts? and How have Native American people demonstrated their resilience to these assimilation policies over time?
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Indian Boarding Schools in Comparative Perspective: The Removal of Indigenous Children in the United States and Australia, 1880-1940

Alternate Title
Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Margaret D. Jacobs
Description
Compares the forced removal of American Indian and Aboriginal children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that governments intentionally removed indigenous children to institutions as acts of colonial control, not assimilation. Chapter from Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, Lorene Sisquoc.
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Indian Child Welfare Act Bibliography

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Indian Law Library
Description
Literature relating to U.S. legislation which governs the jurisdiction over removal of children from their families. Lists audiovisual material, conference proceedings, journal articles, books, reports and agreements.
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Indian Child Welfare Manual

Documents & Presentations
Description
Policy and procedural guidelines to prevent arbitrary removal of Indian children from their families.
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Indian Dances and the Politics of Religious Freedom, 1870-1930

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tisa Wenger
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 79, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 850-878
Description
Examines Indigenous ceremonial practices, government and missionary attempts to suppress Indian dances, and cultural notions about what constitutes "religion".
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Indian Education: A National Tragedy--A National Challenge: 1969 Report of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare ...

Alternate Title
Report No. 91-501
The Kennedy Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
United States Senate
Special Subcommittee on Indian Education
Description
Subcommittee produced extensive report which examined the history of residential, tribal and public education and made numerous recommendations to improve the system.
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Indian Education Confronts the Seventies: History and Background of Indian Education: Volume 1

Alternate Title
Position Papers on Indian Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vine Deloria
Lehman L. Brightman
Robert K. Thomas
Description
Presents three positions papers: Reflections on Contemporary Indian Education by Vine Deloria. An Historical Overview of Indian Education with Evaluations and Recommendations by Lehman L. Brightman. Eastern American Indian Communities by Robert K. Thomas.
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Indian Education: Did the No Child Left Behind Act Leave Indian Students Behind? Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs United States Senate: One Hundred Eleventh Congress: Second Session: June 17, 2010

Alternate Title
Senate Hearing ; 111-713
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Byron L. Dorgan
John Barrasso
Daniel K. Inouye
Kent Conrad
Daniel K. Akaka ... [et al.]
Description
Discussion on Indian education and the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Indian Land, White Man's Law: Southern California Revisited

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Imre Sutton
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 265-270
Description
Argues that a consistent, fair, and equitable policy of land restoration, in the United States, is the only way to resolve Indigenous land claims.
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The Indian Policy of Abraham Lincoln

Articles » General
Author/Creator
W. Dale Mason
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 20, no. 3, Fall, 2009
Description
Outlines Abraham Lincoln's policy priorities, his interpersonal relations with Indians during his administration, the direct impact on Indians of the signing of the Homestead Act in May 1862, the Santee Sioux uprising in Minnesota, the removal and confinement of Navajos and Mescaleros on a reservation in New Mexico Territory, the Sand Creek Massacre in southeastern Colorado, and his relationship with the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico Territory.
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The Indian Question

Alternate Title
[Relations of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute to the United States Government ... ]
[Report on Returned Indians]
E-Books
Author/Creator
S.C. Armstrong
Thomas L. Riggs
George Bushotter
[George F. Edmunds]
Description
Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.
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The Indian School at Chemawa

Articles » General
Author/Creator
[H. L. Wells]
West Shore, vol. 13, no. 1, January 1887, pp. 5-12
Description
Rationalizes need for boarding school system, describes school and its curriculum, and includes list of staff. Reflects attitudes and policies of the time
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Indian School Journal [Vol. 11, No. 12, October 1911]

Documents & Presentations
Description
Monthly magazine was produced by the U.S. Indian Service and published at the United States Indian Training School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. On cover: A Magazine Printed by Indians. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Indian School Journal [Vol. 19, No. 7, March 1919]

Documents & Presentations
Description
Monthly magazine was produced by the U.S. Indian Service and published at the United States Indian Training School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
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