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White Eyes' Lies and the Battle for Dzil Nchaa Si'an

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Welch
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Part 3), Winter, 1997, pp. 75-109
Description
Author examines stereotypes about the Apache people and how these narratives affect the way that the Apache people are perceived and engaged with by the United States government in land disputes generally, and specifically in relation to the Mt. Graham Observatory case.
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White Lies, Native Revisions: The Legacy of Violence in the American West

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Legg
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 331-340
Description
Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.
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White Man's Law and the American Indian Family in the Assimilation Era

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda J. Lacey
Arkansas Law Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 1986, pp. 327-379
Description
Compares and contrasts the social and mores existing in American Indian societies of the nineteenth century with those of the Anglo-Europeans. The article also discusses the effects of assimilation and post-assimilation policies on those social structures.
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White Nationalism and Native Cultures

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David C. Stineback
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 1977, pp. 19-22
Description
Looks at the convoluted logic used by New England Puritans to justify their treatment of the Indigenous people and similar threads that ran through American governments' developing policies.
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White Romance and American Indian Action in Hollywood’s The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig Rinne
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 1, Series 2: Representations of American Indians in Contemporary Narrative Fiction Film , Spring, 2001, pp. [3]-22
Description
Discusses critical reception and competing interpretations of the film, and puts forth an alternate theory by examining the character of Chingachgook. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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White Shadows: The Use of Doppelgangers in Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Jorgensen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 4, Series 2: Sherman Alexie, Winter, 1997
Description
Explores the author's use of Indian characters, shadowed by non-Indian doubles, to illuminate the differences in the mores of the two cultures. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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“Whitman’s Song Sung the Navajo Way”

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kenneth Morrison Roemer
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, Red Readings, April 25, 2018 , pp. 25-39
Description
Literary criticism article which offers a close and critical reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” using an English translation if the text “Navajo Nightway” as a lens through which the author examines the aesthetics and worldview of Whitman’s work.
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Who Am I?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karl Menninger
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 4, no. 3, May 1965, pp. [27-32]
Description
Author explores the concept of self-identity by looking at his own family background.
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Who and What is an American Indian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frell M. Owl
Ethnohistory, vol. 9, no. 3, Summer, 1962, pp. 265-284
Description
Looks at explanations and meaning for expressions used to identify, describe and group North American Indians.
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Who are the "Aboriginal Peoples of Canada"? Case Comment on R. v. Desautel, 2021 SCC 17

Alternate Title
Case Comment: Who are the "Aboriginal Peoples of Canada"? Case Comment on R. v. Desautel, 2021 SCC 17
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce McIvor
BC Studies, no. 211, Autumn, 2021, pp. 109-113
Description
Evaluates the court decision regarding American Rick Desautel Indigenous right in to hunt in British Columbia. The author discusses what was and what was not answered in the courts decision and its importance as a step towards decolonizing Canada.
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Who Are these Gentle People?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. Patrick Morris
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Special Issue on International Year of Indigenous Peoples: Discovery and Human Rights, 1993, pp. 1-15
Description
Discussion of the Columbus quincentenary celebrations, which ignored the impact discovery on those who were "discovered".
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Who Are These People Anyway?

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kahente Horn-Miller
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 122-123
Description
Book review of: Who Are These People Anyway? by Chief Irving Powless, Jr., of the Onondaga Nation, edited by Lesley Forrester.
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Who Are We? Reflections on Healthy Communities and Economies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wanda Wuttunee
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 2, no. 2, Special Issue on Gaming, Winter, 2002, pp. 3-4
Description
Discusses perspectives of Kevin Gover on the culture of Aboriginal peoples and the responsibility to build strong communities.
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Who Gets to Tell the Stories? Carlisle Indian School: Imagining a Place of Memory Through Descendant Voices

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louellyn White
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 57, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 122-144
Description

Examines boarding school through the lenses of the student's descendants recollections of their families experiences.  Through these means the stories will continued to be told once there are no more living alumni. 

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Who Is Indian Enough? The Problem of Authenticity in Contemporary Canadian and American Gone Indian Stories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judit Ágnes Kádár
Review of International American Studies, vol. 6, no. 1-2, Decoding American Cultures in the Global Context, Spring-Fall, 2013, pp. 187-214
Description
Comments on aspects of literary ethnic/cultural shape-shifting in Canadian and American literature since the Millennium. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 187.
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Who Lies Buried in Satanta’s Tomb? Co-memorating a Kiowa Warrior

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew Lopenzina
Travis Franks
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 249-280
Description
Authors re-examine the discourse surrounding the life and death of the Kiowa leader Satanta; discuss how even contemporary perceptions of Indigenous historical figures are rooted in colonial narratives of conquest which sought to diminish the humanity of Indigenous peoples and extinguish Indigenous title in favour of white settler expansion.
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Who Me?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chris Martinez
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 1, The Winding Road to Student Success, Fall, 2006, pp. 30-31
Description
Presents a poem titled, Who Me?, written by a student of Fort Peck Community College.
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Who or What's a Witch? Iroquois Persons of Power

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Blanchard
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 3/4, Autumn-Winter, 1982, pp. 218-237
Description
Examines traditional Iroquois witchcraft by looking at how the Iroquois defined a witch and how witches used their powers.
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