Building a Bridge to Cross a Thousand Years

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothy Lippert
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology, Summer - Autumn, 2006, pp. 431-440
Description
Author describes the dual identities that artifacts hold: archaeologic subject and cultural object. Addresses how American archaeologists are forced by repatriation legislation to address these issues and to consult and collaborate with Indigenous peoples to bridge the gap between these perceptions of artifacts.
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Building Green Campuses for the Seventh Generation

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marjane Ambler
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 2, Sustainability, Winter, 2005
Description
Describes the installation of geothermal heat pumps at Turtle Mountain Community College in an effort to reduce energy costs and find a source of renewable energy.
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Building Indigenous Future Zones: Four Tribal Broadband Case Studies

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
H. Trostle
Description
Highlights initiatives undertaken for provision and operation of internet infrastructures which enhance economic development and sovereignty by keeping power and data within the community. Initiatives are: Red Spectrum Communications, Nez Perce Department of Technology Services, Aaniin Fiber Services, and Mohawk Networks.
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Building Partnerships between Indigenous Communities and Universities: Lessons Learned In HIV/AIDS And Substance Abuse Prevention Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Baldwin
Jeannette Johnson
Christine Benally
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 99, Supplement 1, April 2009, pp. S77-S82
Description
Discusses ways to change research paradigm by introducing a community based model which includes building and sustaining collaborative relations, cultural implementation of programs, and spreading research findings from a tribal perspective.
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Building Strong Communities: Tribal Colleges as Engaged Institutions

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alisa F. Cunningham
Christina Redmond
Description
Policy report explores expanding role of Tribal Colleges and Universities serving local communities in five areas: pre-school, elementary and secondary education, health and nutrition, faculty role models, agriculture and natural resource management and preservation of culture and language.
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Building the Evaluation Capacity of Local Programs Serving American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Lessons Learned

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Description
Looks at the effectiveness of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Service to Science initiative which provided training and customized evaluation technical assistance to locally-developed substance abuse prevention programs.
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Bundling the Day and Unraveling the Night

Alternate Title
American Indian Quarterly ; vol. 37, no. 3, Summer 2013
Bundling the Day and Unravelling the Night
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Noodin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 2, The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies, Summer, 2013, pp. 237-240
Description
Describes colleagues' reactions during a visit to the Octagon Earthworks, which were built by the Hopewell people between 11 BC and 400 AD. Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 237.
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Bureau of Caucasian Affairs

Documents & Presentations
Description
Satirical article which appeared in an unknown Native American activist newsletter. Reverses the roles of Euro-Americans and Native Americans in history.
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Bureau Schools Adopt Goals 2000

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard St. Germaine
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 35, no. 1, October 1995, pp. [39-43]
Description
Reviews the impact of reforms in the Educate America Act, 1994 on the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools.
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Burial as a Disposition Mechanism for Navajo "Jish" or Medicine Bundles

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charlotte J. Frisbie
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 347-365
Description
Looks at the conflicting accounts of the placement of a Navajo Jish in regards to burial. Jish or medicine bundles are made up sacred items that are used for a variety of reasons in Navajo culture.
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A Burial Cave in the Western Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dixie West
Christine Lefèvre
Debra Corbett
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 1, 2003, pp. 70-87
Description
Reports on a human burial at the rear of this cave 1,200 to 800 years ago, as well as more recent temporary uses dating to 390 years ago.
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"Buried in Fine White Ash": Violence and the Reimagination of Ceremonial Bodies in Winter in the Blood and Bearhear

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Meg Armstrong
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 265-298
Description
Literary criticism article which explores the way that Indigenous bodies appear and are used to articulate the struggles between Indigenous and Euro-American cultures in the novels Winter in the Blood and Bearhear.
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Bwaanzhiiwi'onan = Regalia

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nagaajiwanaang Genawendangig Anishinaabemowin
Description

Colouring book with Ojibwe and English text.

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By Any Other Name: Rhetorical Colonialism in North America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary E. Stuckey
John M. Murphy
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, 2001, pp. 73-98
Description
Explores and analyzes the political consequences and power in naming or labeling, as well as discussing how problems may end up disregarding reality.
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By the Dry Pond

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Hogan
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn, 1978, pp. 39-40
Description
Poems by a Native American writer, storyteller and playwright.
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C-Reactive Protein as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Risk in a Population With a High Prevalence of Diabetes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lyle G. Best
Ying Zhang
Elisa T. Lee
Jeun-Liang Yeh
Linda Cowan
et al.
Circulation, vol. 112, no. 9, 2005, pp. 1289-1295
Description
Study finds C-reactive protein (CRP) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease in 45 to 74 year old American Indians, but the predictive ability of CRP changes among subgroups with different risk factors.
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C. Szwedzicki: The North American Indian Works

Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Website contains links to digital images of over 300 paintings and text from portfolios published between 1929 and 1952. Images searchable by subject, place of origin, artist and date published.
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Cahokia Mounds Site Was America's First City

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pamela D. Toler
American History, vol. 43, no. 1, April 2008, pp. 20-21
Description
Examination of the extinct city of Cahokia Mounds, outside of Collinsville, Illinois, its historical decline and excavation it.
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Call for Native Genius and Indigenous Intellectualism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald L. Fixico
Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 43-59
Description
Looks at definitions for the terms and the compares mind sets of American Indians and Anglo Americans.
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Call Me Angakkuq: Captain George Comer and the Inuit of Qatiktalik

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Arctic Collections and Museology: Presentations, Disseminations, and Interpretations, 2018, pp. 61-86
Description
Article examines the almost 250 facial casts made by Captain Comer of Aivilingmiut and Iglulingmiut peoples from Hudson’s Bay; Qaernermiut, Hauneqtormiut, and Netsilingmiut from the interior areas of the region, Tununermiut people from Baffin Island; and Padlimiut people from an area north of what is now Churchill.
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