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The Chickasaw Cultural Center: Evaluating Expectations

Alternate Title
Native American Leadership: Past, Present and Future
Native American Symposium ; 11th, 2015
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Alissa Benson
Description
Author describes her experience vising the Center in 2015 as part a of class trip.
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Choctaws at the Crossroads

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Samuel R. Cook
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 4, Fall, September 1, 2000, pp. 643-645
Description
Book review of: Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region by Sandra Faiman-Silva.
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Collaboration and Indian Education: Exploring Intergovernmental Partnerships between Tribes and Public Schools

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thaddieus W. Conner
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 53, no. 2, 2014, pp. 48-65
Description
Looks at relationships in New Mexico and Oklahoma using qualitative interviews with tribal leaders, quantitative data from survey of 150 Indian education directors, and secondary data on school district characteristics.
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The Comanche Sun Dance and Messianic Outbreak of 1873

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
E. Adamson Hoebel
American Anthropologist, vol. 43, no. 2, pt. 1, New Series, April-June 1941, pp. 301-303
Description
Brief overview of anthropologists understanding of the role of the dance among Comanche in 1873-74.
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"Commendable Progress": Acculturation at the Cherokee Female Seminary

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Devon Abbott
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 187-201
Description
An investigation into the successful implementation of a Cherokee Female Seminary, modeled after seminaries in Massachusetts. The Cherokee Nation embracing a non-Indigenous education with fewer tribal traditions to adhere to leading to less feelings of alienation for the students.
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Conscription, Sovereignty, Land: American Indian Resistance during World War I

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erik M. Zissu
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 64, no. 4, November 1995, pp. 537-566
Description
Argues that resistance occurred for several reasons including that the draft infringed on American Indians' status as non-Citizens, who could not be required to register for service and endangered federal protections of tribal sovereignty resulting in the acceleration toward assimilation, which had been attempted through the allotment process and the liquidation of tribal lands.
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Constructing Meaning to the Indian Boarding School Experience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen Colmant
Lahoma Schultz
Rockey Robbins
Peter Ciali
Julie Dorton
Yvette Rivera-Colmant
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 43, no. 3, 2004, pp. 22-40
Description
Discusses observations that emerged from interviewing alumni, students and staff from an Oklahoma boarding school.
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Contributions to Algonquian Grammar

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Truman Michelson
American Anthropologist, vol. 15, no. 3, New Series, July 1913, pp. 470-476
Description
Examines the Fox language within the general context of Algonkian grammar.
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The Creek-Negroes of Oklahoma and Canadian Immigration, 1909-11

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Harold Martin Troper
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 53, no. 3, September 1972, pp. 272-288
Description
Discusses how officials excluded the blacks from campaigns promoting settlement in the West, resisted their attempts to take advantage of liberal customs, homestead, and citizenship regulations, and eventually closed the border to them completely.
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Decolonizing the Choctaw Nation: Choctaw Political Economy in the Twentieth Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sandra Faiman-Silva
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 43-73
Description
Analysis of the Choctaw, who live in the southeastern Oklahoma timber region, and how they survive in the face of land alienation and economic challenges to their traditional strategies, in order to maintain a livelihood.
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Devils in Disguise: The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel M. Cobb
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3, Summer, 2007, pp. 465-490
Description
Article discusses the Carnegie English literacy program, the figures involved, its assimilative goals, and the way that the project interacted with the socio-political climate of the time.
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A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee: With Notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole Dialects of Creek Jack B. Martin & Margaret McKane Mauldin

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Linda Jordan
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 13, no. 2 & 3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 2001, pp. 83-85
Description
Book review of: A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee by Jack B. Martin and Margaret McKane Mauldin. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Digital Smartpen Technology and Revitalization of the Myaamia Language

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Victor Obonyo
Douglas Troy
Daryl Baldwin
James Clarke
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 4, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 1-11
Description
Reports the results of a usability test conducted to determine if computer technology can provide an effective tool for the education initiative of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.
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Disseminating Information on Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in a Tribal Health Setting: A Case Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jaedon P. Avey
Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka
Lisa G. Dirks
Laurie A. Moore
Barbara Beach ... [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 1, Special Issue, 2018, pp. 43-61
Description
Describes pilot test and focuses on activities at the 2016 Alaska Native Health Research Forum, including process of tailoring products for the community audience, audience response to delivered presentation, and feedback about future dissemination.
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Divergent Models of Diabetes Among American Indian Elders

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Carson Henderson
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 303-316
Description
Examines the belief systems about diabetes in American Indian elders with two practice models, one an Indigenous model, valuing traditional American Indian culture, the other a mainstream model, aligned with western biomedicine.
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Doris Duke Collection

Alternate Title
Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Description
Transcripts of interviews conducted between 1967 and 1972 with individuals from every tribe in Oklahoma. Can be searched by Interviewee, interviewer, tape number, or keyword.
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Elias Cornelius Boudinot, "The Indian Orator and Lecturer"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Burnell Colbert
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, Summer, 1989, pp. 249-259
Description
Highlights the career of Cherokee orator Elias Cornelius Boundinot and his presentation of Indigenous issues to the American public.
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Fact and Fiction: "The Trail of Tears"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kent R. Brown
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 16, no. 2, January 1977, pp. [1-6]
Description
Describes the development of Dr. Kermit H. Hunter's drama The Trail of Tears, sponsored by the Cherokee National Historical Society in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
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Family and Nation: Cherokee Orphan Care, 1835-1903

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie L. Reed
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 312-344
Description
Describes the history of the Cherokee Orphan Asylum in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, including the devestating fire in 1903.
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