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Doing Everything and Nothing: A First-Year Experience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeane Breinig
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 103-112
Author describes the hiring process and their first year as a Professor in the English department of University of Alaska Anchorage; offers discussion of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) hiring practices and of the process of learning “how universities work.”
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Domestic Resistance: Gardening, Mothering, and Storytelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephanie Li
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 18-37
Explains that although the author was planning on writing a novel with no political subject matter, she found that gardening was actually very political. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
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Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gloria Valencia-Weber
Christine P. Zuni
St. John's Law Review, vol. 69, no. 1-2, Symposium: Womens Rights As International Human Rights, Winter-Spring, 1995, pp. 69-170
Explores the issue of physical abuse of women in Native American societies that seek to achieve balance or harmony in all relationships.
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Domestic Violence on the Reservation: Imperfect Laws, Imperfect Solution

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sumayyah Waheed
Berkeley Women's Law Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 2004, pp. 287-298
Discusses Sandra J. Schmieder's proposal to allow civil suits against American Indian law enforcement officials who fail to enforce protective orders and argues that Schmieder fails to recognize the juristictional and financial obstacles involved when attempting to protect victims of violence.
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"Don't Even Talk to Me if You're Kinya'áanii [Towering House]": Adopted Clans, Kinship, and "Blood" in Navajo Country

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristina Jacobsen
Shirley Ann Bowman
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 43-76
Uses historical resources (oral histories, interviews, and archival materials) and contemporary popular culture to describe and discuss the elaborate Diné clan systems and extended kinship relationships and networks.
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Don't Mind Me: I'm With the Banned

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 8, November 2012, p. 12

Brief commentary on book censorship in the United States and the authors personal contact with potential censorship.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.

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Don't Worry, Be Guilty

Articles » General
Author/Creator
David C. Williams
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3, Reparations for Indigenous Peoples, Fall, 2007
Reports on the lack of a reparations program for indigenous peoples in the United States.
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Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, Lebensraum, and Manifest Destiny

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 115-122
Uses the ideology of manifest destiny to connect the policies and political practices of Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and Adolf Hitler; focuses on the removal of one people or race to make living space for another.
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The Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program: Gathering the "Raw Material of History"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dianna Repp
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 47, no. 1, Oral History Remembered: Native Americans, Doris Duke, and the Young Anthropologists, Spring, 2005, pp. 11-28
Provides overview of the program and goals which included documentation of the history of Native Americans in their own voices and from their own perspectives.
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Dot Com Indian

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jesse Short Bull
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 1, The Winding Road to Student Success, Fall, 2006, pp. 32-33
Presents a short story titled, Dot Com Indian, written by a student of Oglala Lakota College.
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Double-standard at Work in Time Articles

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dan David
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 10, February 2003, p. 5

Suggests that the Time Magazine's negative reports about Native American-run casinos in the United States, may affect how Canadians view First Nations-run casinos.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.

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The Double-Weave of Self and Other: Ethnographic Acts and Autobiographical Occasions in Marilou Awiakta’s Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother’s Wisdom

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James H. Watkins
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, Special Issue on New Directions in American Indian Autobiography, 2006, pp. 5-16
Looks at how Awiakta integrates the design of the double-woven basket into the form of her novel.
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“Down the Memory Spilling Out into the World” (Silko): The Spiral Cycle of Repetition With Variation in the Serious Comedy of Native American Traditional Mythoi as an Adaptive Bridge into the Future

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Joseph Faulds
Discusses how the spiral journey of mythic heroes is used to provide a shift in viewer perspective.
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[Dr. James Sinclair]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
James Sinclair
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Comments on collection of works that teach about the Anishnaabe world through the story and perspective of twenty-one writers. Duration: 26:52.
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[Dr. Jessica Metcalfe and American Indian Fashion]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Jessica Metcalfe
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Researcher discusses her work with contemporary Indigenous fashion and the fashion world. Duration: 35:33.
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Dr. Thomas A Bland, Critic of Forced Assimilation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas W. Cowger
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 4, 1992, pp. 77-97
Examines Bland's background influences which helped motivate him to act as an advocate against the practice of assimilation.
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The Dragonfly Shield at Writing-on-Stone

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James D. Keyser
Whispering Wind, vol. 41, no. 6, June-July 2013, pp. 10-13
Discusses the significance of the symbol and examines a specific example found in Blackfoot rock art.
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Drama by Contemporary Native American Women

Theses
Author/Creator
Sharon L. Sullivan
Theatre and Film Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2004. Discusses the plays: Flight of the Army Worm by Geraldine Keams, Strength of Indian Women by Vera Manuel, Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots by Monique Mojica, Ghost Dance by Annette Arkeketa and The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements.
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Drastic Facts about Our Indians and Our Indian System

Alternate Title
Our Forlorn Indians
What's the Matter with Our Indians?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Richard H. Pratt]

Founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and proponent of residential school system in the U.S., argues that assimilation is required "to help the Indians to progress into civilization".

Language and content reflect the attitudes of the times but would be considered offensive by modern standards.

 

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Drawing Strength from Our Cultures: State of Native American Youth Report

Alternate Title
State of Native American Youth Report 2016
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth at The Aspen Institute
Reports the results of the Generation Indigenous (Gen-1) online survey of youth under the age of 25. The 700 respondents were asked questions about health and well-being, child welfare, juvenile justice, education and employment, sacred sites, lands, and waterways, and culture's role in each of those areas.
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Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Website includes discussion and links to exhibit of 748 gallery items from American illustrator James E. Taylor, a professional artist known for his newspaper illustrations created during the post-Civil War years in the United States.
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Drawn to Change: Comics and Critical Consciousness

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sean Carleton
Labour/Le Travail, vol. 73, Spring, 2014, pp. [151]-177
Looks at academic engagement with comics and how they link to promotion of activist learning to take action against oppression.
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The Dream of a Broken Field

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Tria Andrews
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, 2013, pp. 172-174
Book review of: The Dream of a Broken Field by Diane Glancy. Review located by scrolling to page 172.
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Dream Wheels: A Novel

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joseph Bauerkemper
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017, pp. 113-114
Book review of: Dream Wheels by Richard Wagamese.
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Dreameavers: Tribal College Presidents Build Institutions Bridging Two Worlds

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nicole Bowman
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 4, Tribal College Leadership and Vision, Summer, 2009
Reports on interviews that were given to eight Native American college presidents from the United States in which they were asked about their goals, challenges of their jobs, and other inquiries.
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Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice

Alternate Title
Contemporary American Indian History
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the the Yale National Initiative ; 2016 Volume 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ludy P. Aguada

Uses historical documents in conjuction with Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices. Developed for use in Advanced Placement English Literature or Language classroom, Grades 11 and 12.

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