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The Universal Hiawatha

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joe Lockard
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 110-125
Description
Literary criticism article which deals with the translation and internationalization of the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Discusses source material, misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples, and the promotion of colonial narratives.
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"The Unkillable Mother": Sovereignty and Survivance in Louise Erdrich's The Round House

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Paniccia Carden
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 94-116
Description
Provides critical analysis of Erdrich’s novel which examines the high rates of sexual assault of Indigenous women as a metaphor for colonization, and draws parallels between the aftermath of an assault and the state and status of Ojibwe culture.
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Unknown Athapaskans: The Identification of the Jano, Jocome, Jumano, Manso, Suma, and Other Indian Tribes of the Southwest

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack D. Forbes
Ethnohistory, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring, 1959, pp. 97-159
Description
Report describing issues encountered by researchers investigating language and culture of Athabaskan tribes that disappeared before scientific observers arrived in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico areas.
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Unlearning the Legacy of Conquest: Possibilities for Ceremony in the Non-Native Classroom

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Virginia Kennedy
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 75-82
Description
Discusses the use of Leslie Mormom Silko's novel Ceremony in non-Native classrooms to teach the scope of past genocide and awareness of contemporary Native issues.
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"Unless They Are Kept Alive": Federal Indian Schools and Student Health, 1878-1918

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David H. Dejong
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2007, pp. 256-282
Description
Article examines the Indian Residential Schools in the United States during the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century; links the conditions in the schools to the failure of American Indian policy in the States.
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Unlikely Alliances: Treaty Conflicts and Environmental Cooperation Between Native American and Rural White Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zoltán Grossman
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 4, 2005, pp. 21-43
Description
Examines economic development by tribal reserves that provide employment to local non-Indian communities, thereby increasing cooperation with non-Indian local governments and businesses.
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Unmasking, Exposing, and Confronting: Critical Race Theory, Tribal Critical Race Theory and Multicultural Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeanette Haynes Writer
International Journal of Multicultural Education, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Education, 2008, pp. 1-15
Description
Contends that using multicultural education (MCE) to promote equality and unity in teacher education programs and schools can help to stop the propagation of colonization.
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Unmasking the Mouse: Cultural Appropriation in Disney Films

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rebecca Domas
Description
Case studies of portrayals of Native Americans in Peter Pan and Pocahontas and Mexican culture in The Three Caballeros and Coco. Art and Design Honors Program Project (B.A.)--Kutztown University, 2021.
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The Unnatural History of American Indian Education

Alternate Title
Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
Description
Looks at the legacy of colonial education and the roots of some stereotypical assumptions associated with Native Americans. Chapter one of Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education edited by Karen Gayton Swisher and John W. Tippeconnic.
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Uno Native Film Festival

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brady DeSanti
Michele M. Desmarais
Beth R. Ritter
Journal of Religion & Film, vol. 18, no. 1, 2014, p. Article 40
Description
Film reviews of: 40 Years Celebrating Wounded Knee directed by Christopher Marshall. The Medicine Game directed by Lukas Korver. Shouting Secrets directed by Korinna Sehringer. Spirit in Glass: Plateau Native Beadwork. Winter in the Blood directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith. Yellow Fever: The Navajo Uranium Legacy directed by Sophie Rousmaniere.
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Unpacking the Placement of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Special Education Programs and Services in the Early Grades: School Readiness as a Predictive Variable

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacob Hibel
Susan C. Faircloth
George Farkas
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 78, no. 3, Fall, 2008, pp. 498-528
Description
Study found that once adjustments were made for other contextual factors, the rate of placement was comparable to other students and the greatest predictor of academic success was educational readiness, not ethnic background.
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Unraveling Ethnicity: The Construction and Dissolution of Identity in Wendy Rose's Poetics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sheila Hassell Hughes
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 14-49
Description
Examines how the poetry of Native American author Wendy Rose contributes to debates about authenticity and identity politics in literature and society. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.
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An Unraveling Rope: The Looting of America's Past

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert J. Mallouf
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 197-208
Description
Article describes the phenomenon of site-looting, or artefact collecting by amateur or hobbyist archeologists; discusses the motivations of the collectors and the effects for the scholarly archeological community.
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Unresolved Grief and Mourning in Navajo Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John K. Nagel
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 2, no. 2, 1988, pp. 32-40
Description
Looks at bereavement in two cultures and two healing traditions.
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Unsettling Methodologies/Decolonizing Movements

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig Fortier
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. [20]-36
Description
Author reflects on the role of non-Indigenous peoples in decolonizing research methods and cultural participation using the core themes of identity and belonging, accountability and consent, and responsibility and appropriation.
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Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality: A Sourcebook Compiled by Unsettling Minnesota

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Derrick Jensen
Wicanhpi Iyotan Win
Scott Demuth
Waziyatawin
Dee Brown ... [et al.]
Description
Collection of commentaries based on excerpts from works such as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, What Does Justice Look Like, Indians 'R' Us: Culture and Genocide, The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
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Unspeaking the Settler: "The Indian Today" in International Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chadwick Allen
American Studies, vol. 46, no. 3-4, Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies, Fall/Winter, 2005, pp. 39-57
Description

Compares essays from two special issues published in 1965 and 1968. 

Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

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Untitled

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
LeNeil Spotted Horse Jr.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, 2016, pp. 185-186
Description
Poem.
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Untranslatable Timescapes in James Welch’s Fools Crow and the Deconstruction of Settler Time

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doro Wiese
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 56-75
Description
Literary criticism article in which the author suggests that Welch’s use of Indigenous understandings of time as a narrative device in the novel Fools Crow works to both dismantle Western histories and to disrupt the mainstream perception of Western ontologies as universal and self-evident.
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