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World-Systems in North America: Networks, Rise and Fall and Pulsations of Trade in Stateless Systems

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Thomas D. Hall
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 1998, pp. 23-72
Description
Uses a theoretical approach to try to understand the theory and perspective that was originally developed to account for the colonizing effort in North America and apply it to precolonial conditions.
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[World War II and the American Indian]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Tom Holm
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1, Winter, 2002, pp. 59-60
Description
Book review of: Review of World War II and the American Indian by Kenneth William Townsend.
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Worlds Into Words: The Technology of Language in Carter Revard’s Poetry

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ellen Arnold
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [32]-39
Description
Explores how the poet's work weaves "tribal" worldviews with those suggested by modern science. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Worldviews of Urban Iroquois Faculty: A Case Study of a Native American Resource Program

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Nix Hollowell
Rhonda Baynes Jeffries
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, Summer/Autumn, 2004, pp. 764-785
Description
Looks at a unique public school in Buffalo known as P.S. #19, Native American Magnet School. Students come from six Iroquois tribes: Oneida, Seneca, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga and Tuscarora.
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Wounded Hearts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, p. 351
Description
Poem that deals with the 1862 removal of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota from their lands, their forced march to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling, and the execution of 38 men by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”
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Wounded Knee and the Prospect of Pluralism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott L. Pratt
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 19, no. 2, 2005, pp. 150-166
Description
Examines how the Ghost Dance was understood by non-Aboriginal Americans.
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The Wounded Knee Ghost Dance Shirt

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sam Maddra
Journal of Museum Ethnography, vol. 8, May 1996, pp. 41-58
Description
Discusses repatriation request by the Pine Ridge Wounded Knee Survivors Association for articles housed at the Art Gallery and Museum in Kelvingrove, Glasgow. Articles included a necklace, moccasins, Sioux cradle and Ghost Shirt.
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Woven by the Grandmothers: Twenty-Four Blankets Travel to the Navajo Nation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Heald
Kathleen E. Ash-Milby
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 37, no. 3, Autumn-Winter, 1998, pp. 334-345
Description
Discusses how The National Museum of the American Indian, in an attempt to develop an exhibit with community involvement and access, sent a selection of 19th Century Navajo blankets to a Navajo reservation in 1995.
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Wrestling with Fire: Indigenous Women’s Resistance and Resurgence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa K Nelson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, [Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism], 2019, pp. 69-84
Description
Describes the rising role of Indigenous women in a new era of activism that is based on traditional Indigenous values and practices.
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Writing a Friendship Dance: Orality in Mourning Dove’s Cogewea

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Wilson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 1996, pp. 27-41
Description
Examines two spheres of discourse, the written and the oral tradition and argues the novel affirms the oral tradition in written form, in terms of identity, community, continuity and change.
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Writing Deeper Maps: Mapmaking, Local Indigenous Knowledges, and Literary Nationalism in Native Women's Writing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelli Lyon Johnson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 103-120
Description
Argues that there is a turning away from Western theories that have often been used to determine the social, psychological or cultural meanings of Indigenous literature from the outside. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 103.
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Writing for Connection: Cross-Cultural Understanding in James Welch's Historical Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph L. Coulombe
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 2008, pp. 1-28
Description
Discusses how Welch's fiction examines links between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals, and how the two cultures intersect in both positive and negative ways. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Writing Indian, Native Conversations by John Lloyd Purdy

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kenneth M. Roemer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall, 2011, pp. 132-136
Description
Book review of Writing Indian, Native Conversations by John Lloyd Purdy. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 132.
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Writing Water, Writing Life: Silko as Environmental Activist

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Boyles
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 10-35
Description
Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.
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Written Orality in Thomas King's Short Fiction

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Teresa Gibert
Journal of the Short Story in English, no. 47, Autumn, 2006, pp. 2-10
Description
Discusses how the oral and the written are successfully merged in the literary works of Thomas King.
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WSANEC: Emerging Land or Emerging People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Horne
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 6-19
Description
Reviews scholarship on British Columbia resettlement, examines the Saanichton Marina court case, and discusses ongoing disputes over recognition of the Douglas Treaties.
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