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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Washington Libraries
Description
Database with over 2300 original photographs complemented by essays and maps, 1500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (USA), and six Treaties.
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Assessment of AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors, and Risk Level of Northwestern American Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roberta L. Hall
Doni Wilder
Pamela Bodenroeder
Michael Hess
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 80, no. 7, July 1990, pp. 875-877
Description
Findings from the 1988-89 study indicated an estimated 10.6% of male and 6.4% of female Pacific Northwestern American Indians were at high risk for AIDS in contrast to 3% of the general U.S. population.
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Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus

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Author/Creator
Benedicte Wrensted
Description
Exhibition dedicated to photographs of Native Americans taken by the Danish photographer in the late 19th century. Includes links to biography, photographs and influences on the images.
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Coyote Tales: A Paiute Commentary

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judy Trejo
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 87, no. 343, January-March 1974, pp. 66-71
Description
Stories told to teach principles of appropriate and acceptable behaviours.
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Dart and Arrow Points on the Columbia Plateau of Western North America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth M.Ames
Kristen A. Fuld
Sara Davis
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 287-325
Description
Argues that the bow and arrow were present in the early Holocene and that atlatls, bows and arrows were used, in varying frequencies, at the same time.
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Denver Indian Family Resource Center: Research Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robin Leake
Description
Discusses the activities of the Rocky Mountain Quality Improvement Center (RMQIC) project which was designed to prevent removal and out-of-home placement of children who have become involved with the child welfare system due to parental substance abuse and child neglect.
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Earth, Animals, and Academics: Plateau Indian Communities, Culture, and the Walla Walla Council of 1855

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 81-100
Description
Argues that historiography, too often, overlooks traditional beliefs and oral histories, especially those regarding the earth, plants, and animals which significantly influenced the course of Aboriginal history.
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Forced to Abandon Their Farms: Water Deprivation and Starvation among the Gila River Pima, 1892–1904

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David H. DeJong
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 29-56
Description
Examines the National Reclamation Act and how many people in the Gila River and Casa Grande valleys, including government officials, thought that the first reclamation project would be built in Arizona.
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Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1927-1928

E-Books
Author/Creator
H. W. Dorsey
Description
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief Clerk by H. W. Dorsey The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus by James A. Teit, edited by Franz Boas Tattooing and Face and Body Painting of the Thompson Indians, British Columbia by James A. Teit, edited by Franz Boas Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia by Elsie Viault Steedman The Osage Tribe: Rite of the Wa-xo'-be by Francis La Flesche
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Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part 3

Alternate Title
Tonkawa: An Indian Language of Texas
E-Books
Author/Creator
Henry Hoijer
Manuel J. Andrade
Gunter Wagner
Ruth L. Bunzel
Gladys A. Reichard
Description
Languages: Tonkawa, Quileute, Yuchi, Zuni, Coeur d'Alene.
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HCR33 Report: Idaho’s Missing & Murdered Indigenous Persons

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Melanie L. Fillmore
Lane K. Gillespie
Description
Uses information from the National Crime Information Center, Idaho Missing Persons Clearinghouse, National Center for Missing and Exploited children, and the National Missing and unidentified Person System.
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The Kootenai War of '74

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ian Chambers
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 43-86
Description
Looks at the circumstances which led to the Koontenai nation declaring war on the United States government in 1974, The tribe was federally recognized but had been given no land base nor received any monetary compensation.
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Mathematical Ecology of the Shoshoni and Implications For Elementary Mathematics Education and the Young Learner

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim Barta
Ann Abeyta
Drusilla Gould
Ed Galindo
Georgia Matt
Delverne Seaman
Garrit Voggessor
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 40, no. 2, 2001, p. [?]
Description
Results of two year study which examined use of culturally specific mathematics in Shoshoni traditional living practices and its possible applications with other local cultures.
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SEED: A Ktunaxa Nation Resource

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Author/Creator
Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Independent School System
Description
Selective Ethnobotanical Education Directory (SEED) compiled by four Ktunaxa/Kinbasket students. Includes information on plants used in daily life, information about the First Nation and a short quiz.
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Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners for the Year 1875.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
United States Board of Indian Commissioners
Description
The Seventh Annual Report of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners includes reports of living conditions on reservations; correspondence and transcripts of meetings between government officials and Aboriginal chiefs and officials; and lists of Indian Agencies with names of tribes and agents.

Historical note:

Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.
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The Sun Dance of the Hekandika Shoshone

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
E. Adamson Hoebel
American Anthropologist, vol. 37, no. 4, pt.1, New Series, October-December 1935, pp. 570-581
Description
Description of the annual ceremony held in Idaho.
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