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Barriers and Solutions: Direction for Organizations That Serve Native American Parents of Children in Special Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Thomas Murry
Judy Wiley
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 56, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. 3-33
Description
A study on special needs Indigenous students and the barriers they face within the American education system.
Barter, Blankets, and Bracelets: The Role of the Trader in the Navajo Textile and SIlverwork Industries, 1868-1930
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert W. Volk
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, 1988, pp. 39-63
Description
Analysis of the Navajo economy, focusing on the middleman activities of the traders in relation to the Navajo crafts industry.
The Bases Are Loaded: American Indians and American Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carter Meland
Joseph Bauerkemper
LeAnne Howe
Heidi Stark
American Studies, vol. 46, no. 3-4, Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies, Fall/Winter, 2005, pp. 391-416
Description
Argues that the field of American Studies would not exist without the presence of Native Americans and that their world view and contributions are both valid and desirable.
Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.
Bashas' Diné Markets and the Navajo Nation: A Study of Cross-Cultural Trade
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Carder
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-64
Description
Study examines the potential for the Diné Markets to serve as a model for niche marketing to similar cultural clusters.
Basic Empowering Strategies for the Classroom
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Devon A. Mihesuah
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 459-478
Description
Author details several methods for teaching Indigenous Studies in a way that engages both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students which he has developed through 16 years of experience teaching “Native history, culture, and current events.
Basic Ojibwe Words and Phrases
Alternate Title
Waasa-Inaabidaa "We Look in All Directions" Series ; Epidsode 6: "Ojibwe Oral Traditions"
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Ojibwe Waasa-Inaabidda]
Description
Introduces double vowel chart, questions, phrases, colours, family members, animals, trees, food, weather, seasons, directions, races, stages of life, medicines, plant parts, numbers, time, days of the week, months, body parts, reservations, and miscellaneous.
"Basket Becomes Codex: A Poem by Trevino Brings Plenty in the Portland Art Museum"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Karen M. Poremski
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 53-78
Description
Essay discusses Trevino Brings Plenty’s poem "Little, Cultural, Teapot Curio Exposes People" and its relationship to the object it is about, the museum that holds the object, and the social and cultural issue surrounding Indigenous materials in colonial museums.
Basketmaking Guides and the Appropriation of Indigenous Basketry
Alternate Title
Basket Making Guides and the Appropriation of Indigenous Basketry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ellen Pearlstein
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, 2020, pp. 53-72
Description
An examination of appropriation of traditional crafts through the creation and marketing of how-to-guides and kits in the early twentieth century. Focuses on works written by George Wharton James.
"Battleford's History, 1933-1962."
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cecilia Wetton
Description
This folder contains articles written about the Battleford area by Mrs. Wetton and Mrs. Storer. Clippings from other sources are also included. There is a good section of articles that reveal popular non-Aboriginal views of the 1885 resistance.
Historical note:
Battles, Syntheses, Revisions, and Prophecies: Histories and
Modernities in the Phoenix Indian School's Native American,
1901–1916
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Bess
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. [29]-63
Description
Reviews alumni/ae publications free of boarding school censorship, supplemented by archival information to place students in Robert Warrior's nonfiction tradition.
Battling Whiteness: Methodological Dilemmas Throughout My Journey As an Anthropologists in Indian Country
Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 2008 Western Social Science Association Meeting, American Indian Studies Section
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Noa Apeloig
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2008, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the difficulties, conflicts, methodological problems, and theoretical insights that emerged from the interactions and relationships with members of the Native American community at Haskell Indian Nations University.
Scroll down to access article.
Bazaar Artist: Hawk Henries
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Agnes Portalewska
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, The Interconnectedness of Languages, Rivers, and Forests, December 2011, p. [?]
Description
Indigenous flutist and flute maker discusses how music can be used to create a space where people from diverse cultural and spiritual backgrounds can engage in meaningful dialogue.
Be Safe: A Cultural Competency Model for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians Toward the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fransing Daisy
Yvonne M. Davis
Betty E.S. Duran
John Lowe
Wesley K. Thomas
Description
Program is designed to help health care providers become comfortable in treating this group. Aimed at physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, Indigenous healers, etc.
A Beacon on South Huntington: North American Indian Center of Boston Serves New England's Native Community
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jenna Winton
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, We are Still Here: Tribes in New England Stand Their Ground, June 2014, p. [?]
Description
A cultural center for New England’s Native community celebrates its fourth decade.
Beading the Multicultural World: Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife and the Sacred Metaphysic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonathan Little
Contemporary Literature, vol. 41, no. 3, Autumn, 2000, pp. 495-524
Description
Examines the concept of multiculturalism and sacred metaphysics in Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife by using a metaphor of Ojibwa beading to create a narrative about overlapping spaces between cultures.
Beadwork Masterpieces: Native American Bandolier Bags
Alternate Title
Nebraska State Historical Society Brown Bag Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tom Myers
Description
Discusses Native American art and compares essential elements and designs of beaded bags in northern and southern styles. Uses bandolier bag in Benjamin Rush's painting, Death of General Wolfe as one example.
Duration: 45:11.
Bear, Outlaw, and Storyteller: American Frontier Mythology and the Ethnic Subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason W. Stevens
American Literature, vol. 73, no. 3, September 2001, pp. 599-631
Description
Reviews the author's work finding he successfully combines tribal mythologies and Euro-American lore while maintaining the integrity of cultural traditions and heritage.
Beasts of Burden: How Literary Animals Remap the Aesthetics of Removal
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joshua D. Miner
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 2, 2014, pp. 60-82
Description
Explores how differing genres of Native storytelling process the contemporary literatures of removal within the Trail of Tears, a forced relocation, following passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The Beautiful Way
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Norla Chee
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1992, pp. 31-36
Description
Short story titled The Beautiful Way by Norla Chee.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
"Because We Do Not Know Their Way": Standardizing Practices and Peoples Through Habitus, the NCLB "Highly-Qualified" Mandate, and PRAXIS I Examinations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sundy Watanabe
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 47, no. 1, 2008, pp. 118-135
Description
Comments on the contribution the No Child Left Behind Act has made to the miseducation of American Indian/Alaska Native populations.
Becoming Documentary: Edward Curtis's In the Land of the Headhunters and the Politics of Archival Reconstruction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Wakeham
Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2006, pp. 293-309
Description
Compares the original film from 1914 to the restored 1973 version arguing that the reconstruction still attempts to make a manipulate melodrama into an ethnographic piece.