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Smuggled Smokes

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nina Munk
Forbes, vol. 150, no. 13, December 7, 1992, pp. 47-[?]
Discusses problems associated with policing tobacco smuggling through Akwasasne and St. Regis Reservations and the subsequent on-reserve resale of goods.
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Some Notes on the Manufacture of Wampum Prior to 1654

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James D. Burggraf
American Antiquity, vol. 4, no. 1, July 1938, pp. 53-58
Long Island excavations in the 1930's indicate that most wampum was produced less than 350 years ago. Methods and materials for making white and black wampum are discussed.
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Traditional Foods in Native America: A Compendium of Traditional Foods Stories from American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. Part III

Alternate Title
Traditional Food Stories
Traditional Foods in Native America: A Compendium
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chelsea Wesner
Native Diabetes Wellness Program
Looks at nine programs with innovative approaches to promoting traditional foods and the promising practices which were developed.
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Tribal Policing: An Alternative Viewpoint : The Oneida Indian Nation of New York Police

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 3rd, 1999
Native American Symposium ; 4th, 2001
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Peter W. Phillips
Discusses progress made to overcome problems that face many tribal police officers within Native American communities.
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Tribalography: The Power of Native Stories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
LeAnne Howe
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 14, no. 1, Fall, 1999, pp. 117-125
Comments on the Native Women Playwrights conference held March 18-20, 1999.
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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
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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Visualizing Humanitarian Colonialism: Photographs from the Thomas Indian School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeffrey Montez de Oca
José Prado
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 58, no. 1, Special Issue Title: Indigenous Peoples, Genocide in California, and Politics of the Academy: Inters, January 2014, pp. 145-170
Analyzes photographs taken between the 1890s and 1950s to illustrate how they reflect belief systems and the context in which they were taken.
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War, Wampum, and Recognition: Algonquin Transborder Political Activism during the Early Twentieth Century, 1919-1931

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis Leo Fisher
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 1, Winter, 2021, pp. [56]-79
Discusses the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg's push for recognition of their traditional lands and treaty rights following the First World War in Eastern Canada through collaborations with Chief Richard and the Tuscaroras of New York.
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Where the Partridge Drums

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edna Garte
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 21, no. 1, October 1981, pp. [24-30]
Focuses on values of the Mohawk culture, based on interviews conducted after the arrest of Chief Loran Thompson of the Akwesasne Reserve in May 1979.
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Who Are the Haudenosaunee?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Iroquois Indian Museum]

General introduction to the history, culture and art of members of the confederacy made of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onodagas, Cayugas and Senecas.

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Witchcraft and Demonism of the Modern Iroquois

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
De Cost Smith
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 1, no. 3, October-December 1888, pp. 184-194
Includes accounts from individual Onondagas about the powers of several ceremonies.
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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

Alternate Title
Iroquois Creation Myth
Documents & Presentations

Lengthier version of the traditional Haudenosaunee origin story about the Sky Woman.

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