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Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project: Transcript Description and Index
Alternate Title
[Occasional papers (D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian)]
Special publication (Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project) ; no.1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian
Description
Interviewees were: Leroy Wesaw, Pat Wesaw, Rose Maney, Amy Lester Skendandore, Floria Forcia, Clarise Krause, Phyllis Fastwolf, Peggy DesJarlait, Rosebud Yellow Robe, Willard LaMere, Mae Chevalier, Marlene Straus, Ada Powers, Roselle Mars, Claire Young, Inez Running Bear Dennison, Susan Powers, Cornelia Penn, Vince Catches, Ann Lim, Dan Battise, Margaret Redcloud, Joe White, and Joan Takahara.
"Contrary to Our Way of Thinking": The Struggle for an American Indian Center in Chicago, 1946-1953
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Grant Arndt
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 117-134
Description
Historical look at how those individuals seeking to create Native American urban organizations, such as the American Indian Center, encountered rejection.
Designing Indigenous Language Revitalization
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Hermes
Megan Bang
Ananda Marin
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 82, no. 3, Fall, 2012, pp. 381-402
Description
Describes the Ojibwemodaa! project in Chicago as part of general discussion about community collaboration, knowledge production, and evolution of design.
Developing a Voice: The Evolution of Self-Determination in an Urban Indian Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David R. M. Beck
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 17, no. 2, Autumn, 2002, pp. 117-141
Description
Looks at the long and difficult process of self-determination within a Chicago Native American community regarding the needs and abilities to advocate for positive change.
Discrimination and Indigenous Identity in Chicago's Native Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James V. Fenelon
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 273-303
Description
Examines the discrimination and Indigenous identity in Chicago's Native community.
A Discussion of "Winter in the Blood"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter G. Beidler
A. Lavonne Ruoff
Carter Revard
Gene Ruoff
Kay Sands ... [et al.]
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's , 1978, pp. 159-168
Description
A transcript version of a question and answer sessions by the authors of the articles from A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's "Winter in the Blood".
Dreaming and Journeying Orality: A Mnemonic Pictograph of a Dream Shared at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brent Debassige Ahnungoohs
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, 2008, pp. 311-317
Description
Author shares a mnemoic pictograph, symbolic of a dream, with the audience at an American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting held in Chicago in May 2007.
Evolving Voices of Dissent: The Workshops on American Indian Affairs, 1956-1972
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul McKenzie-Jones
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2014, pp. 207-236
Description
Comments on the success of anthropological workshops which brought students together to learn in a more culturally sympathetic and empathetic environment compared to mainstream education.
Gender and Community Organization Leadership in the Chicago Indian Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann Terry Straus
Debra Valentino
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 523-532
Description
Traces women's involvement through eight decades (1920-2000) of community organization. Special issue:
Urban American Women's Activism.
"I Would Like to Have This Tribe Represented": Native Performance and Craft at Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress Exposition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Abigail Markwyn
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 3, Summer, 2020, pp. [329]-361
Description
Investigates the participation of Indigenous men and women in the world fair and how it provided both economic opportunities otherwise unavailable and a way to maintain their culture.
Rethinking Research: Learning Opportunities within a Native American Urban Context
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lori Faber
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 55, no. 1, Spring, 2016, pp. 4-22
Description
Looks at the benefits in participating in community-based research for Indigenous youth in Urban Indigenous communities.
Selling Indian Education at World's Fairs and Expositions, 1893-1904
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Trennert
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 203-220
Description
Looks at the Bureau of Indian Affairs attempts to promote Indigenous education for public approval through exhibits at the World's Fair. However, the exhibits ended up promoting a romanticized traditional Indigenous culture to the American public.
Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kristina McLaughlin
Michael McMahon
Description
Narratives of historical events impacting the Haida Gwaii villages in British Columbia and the preparation to repatriate ancestral bones from the Field Museum in Chicago back to the Haida Nation.
Duration 1:14:12.
Theatres of Contact: The Kwakwaka'wakw Meet Colonialism in British Columbia and at the Chicago World's Fair
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paige Raibmon
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 81, no. 2, June 1, 2000, pp. 157-191
Description
Presents a new perspective on the trip of the Kwakwaka'akw from northern Vancouver Island to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago where they performed and lived 'on display' in 1893.
Toward a Native Archive: Chicago's Relocation Photos, Indian Labor, and Indigenous Public Text
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Megan Tusler
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 375-410
Description
Article provides a literary historical reading of photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) photo archive of the “relocation project.” Discusses the relocation as both an institutional and an aesthetic venture.
William Henry Jackson: Riel's Secretary - Donald B. Smith. - Article. - Spring 1981.
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Donald B. Smith
Description
Biographical account of William Henry Jackson's {also known as Honoré Joseph Jaxon) involvement in the 1885 Rebellion as Louis Riel's secretary. Smith examines Jackson's political and religious beliefs, his trial and charge of treason felony and the question of his sanity.