The Star People

Alternate Title
iGrow Readers
Documents & Presentations
Description

Teacher resource for The Star People: A Lakota Story by S.D. Nelson. Target age is Kindergarten to Grade 3.

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State Court Update February 2006-February 2007

Alternate Title
[Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series]
[Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2011-01]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Hannah N. Bobee
Description
Provides case updates from various states.
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Strong Heart Study: The Largest Epidemiological Study of Cardiovascular Disease in American Indians

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Center for American Indian Health Research
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Center for American Indian Health Research
the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Description
Contains links to: principal investigations, exams for Phase I-V, publications, SHS Operations Manual, slides and presentations, newsletters, and much more.
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Suicide among the American Indians: Two Workshops

Alternate Title
Public Health Service Publication ; no. 1903
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David D. Swenson
James T. Barter
Norman Tabachnick
Anson B. Haughton
Stanley C. Mahoney ... [et al.]
Description
Comments on suicidal behaviours and prevention strategies.
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Supporting Native American Students along STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Math] Education Pathways: Findings from an Exploratory Study of South Dakota's Educational Landscape

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Becky Carroll
Heather Mitchell
Pamela Tambe
Mark St. John
Description
Study examined learning experiences of students in mathematics and science programs, barriers to continuing education in those fields, and existing supports for transition process. Contains stories of four individuals.
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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in the Circumpolar North: Proceedings of the 8th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference & University of the Arctic Inaugural Food Summit

Alternate Title
Circumpolar Agricultural Conference ; 8th, 2013
Miscellaneous Publication (Alaska Agricultural & Forestry Experimental Station) ; MP 2014-16
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[M.P. Shipka
J.E. Rowell
S.C. Gerlach
J. Greenberg
T. Paragi ... Tom Allen ... [et al.]]
Description
Abstracts and selected papers. Topics were grouped in four areas: global food policy and food safety issues; food production and economic development; food production and sustainable practices; and global perspectives in advancing food security in the Circumpolar world.
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SWC Produces Rap Song in Dakotah Language

Articles » General
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 4, Reforming Our Schools, Native Style, Summer, 2006
Description
Reports the joint venture by Sisseton Wahpeton College and the Association of American Indian Affairs of producing the first rap song ever recorded in the Dakotah language.
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SWC Science Instructors Show Science Can Be Fun

Articles » General
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 4, Tribal College Leadership and Vision, Summer, 2009
Description
Comments on a collaborative science program between students at Sisseton Wahpeton College and two local tribal schools that introduces the youth to interesting science experiments.
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Training for Tomorrow: Developing a Native Workforce

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ahmed Al-Asfour
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 2, Workforce Development, Winter, 2014
Description
Discusses how tribal colleges can alter the unemployment rate through workforce development by partnering with business and government.
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Tribal College Libraries and the Federal Depository Library Program

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Charles D. Bernholz
Rachel Lindvall
Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries , vol. 33, no. 2, Summer, 2005, pp. 27-29
Description
Describes the benefits of a partnerships between American Indian libraries and a depository library program run by the Government Printing Office.
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Trudell

Alternate Title
Trudell Full Documentary
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Heather Rae
John Trudell
Description
Documentary about the life of John Trudell, as an American Indian activist, musician and poet. Duration: 1:18:22.
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The Truman Mound Site, Big Bend Reservoir Area, South Dakota

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert W. Neuman
American Antiquity, vol. 26, no. 1, July 1960, pp. 78-92
Description
Excavation of late Woodland burial mounds, each pit had a single individual and burial offerings. Pottery was of a single type, undecorated.
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Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920s

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thomas G. Andrews
The Western Historical Quarterly , vol. 33, no. 4, Winter, 2002, pp. [407]-430
Description
Argues that because students remained on the reservation, attempts to enforce English instruction, manual training and moral indoctrination had limited success and the tribe was able influence the education of their children.
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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
Description
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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Uranium Activities' Impacts on Lakota Territory

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lilian Jones Jarding
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2011 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Fall, 2011, pp. 1-21
Description
Comments on the destruction made by exploration, mining, milling and the contamination to water, soil, plants, animals and people.
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Uranium Claims in the Lakota Nation

Alternate Title
Map: Uranium Claims in the Lakota Nation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1988, p. 25
Description
Sketched map of the natural resources on the Lakota Nation reservation developed by an activist group.
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The Use of Native Language Models in the Development of Critical Literacy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gloria Dyc
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 211-233
Description
Analysis of the political problems faced by Native American people in United States local government and the lack of consensus attained due to the complexity of some of the issues.
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The Validity of Tribal Checkpoints in South Dakota to Curb the Spread of COVID-19

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ann E.Tweedy
Description
Looks at the question of whether, in a time of a public health emergency, tribal governments can enact stronger protection measures than the state in which the reservation is located. Cites the United States Supreme Court's decision in Montana v. United States, which involved tribal civil jurisdiction over nonmembers, as confirmation that they do have that right.
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Vine Deloria Jr. and Indigenous Americans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David E. Wilkins
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 21, no. 2, Fall, 2006, pp. 151-155
Description
Memorial to a knowledgeable, witty, and intelligent writer who struggled to achieve national sovereignty for First Nations peoples.
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Voices of the Marchers

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1-2, Winter/Spring, 2004, pp. 293-334
Description
Comments shared by participants of the Dakota Commemorative March in 2002 to remember their peoples forced removal march of 1862.
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The Voting Rights Act’s Pre-Clearance Provisions: The Experience of Native Americans in South Dakota

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean Reith Schroedel
Joey Torres
Andrea Walters
Joseph Dietrich
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 1-21
Description
Discusses case law pertaining to Section 5 of the Act, which prohibts practices which deny the right to vote as well as those that dilute the power of voters to elect representatives of their choice.
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“We Need New Stories”: Trauma, Storytelling, and the Mapping of Environmental Injustice in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Standing Rock

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Summer Harrison
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 1-35
Description
Literary criticism essay that uses Hogan’s novel Solar Storms and the incidents Standing Rock, ND to illustrate a connection between the violence enacted on Indigenous bodies and the social discourses surrounding extractive resource practices. Argues that conscious storytelling could help to reshape the discourse surrounding trauma, the more than human community and environmental/climate justice.
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"We're Still Here"

Alternate Title
An In Depth Preview of the Up Coming Lakota/Pine Ridge Documentary ...
An In Depth Preview of the Up Comming Lakota/Pine Ridge Documentary ...
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
S.O.T.Y. (Save Our Tribal Youth)
[Value Creation Films]
Description
Presents in-depth preview. Duration: 21:42.
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