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Assessing the Needs of Urban American Indians in North Texas: A Community-Based Participatory Research Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Conrad
Maria Scannapieco
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. [33]-51
Description
Looks at trust building create through a needs assessment research project with feedback from university researchers, urban inter-tribal center and other community partners in Northern Texas.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Stuart Baldwin
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 188-190
Description
Book review of: Rio del Norte: People of the Upper Rio Grande From Earliest Times to the Pueblo Revolt by Carroll L. Riley.
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Caddo Populations in Northeast Texas: A Response to Taylor and Creel

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy K. Perttula
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 195-196
Description
Questions findings about the relationship between Late Prehistoric Caddo farmers and earlier Archaic and Woodland foragers because their findings did not include non-metric dental traits.
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The Comanche Empire

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mariah F. Wade
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer, 2009, p. 241
Description
Book review of: The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen.
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The Comanche Sun Dance

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ralph Linton
American Anthropologist, vol. 37, no. 3, pt. 1, New Series, July-September 1935, pp. 420-428
Description
Discusses the history, rituals and ceremony of the Sun Dance of 1878, at that time thought to be the last ever performed.
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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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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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[Historic Native Peoples of Texas]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michael L. Tate
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer, 2009, pp. 241-242
Description
Book review of: Historic Native Peoples of Texas by William C. Foster and Foreword by Alston V. Thoms.
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Historic Origins of the Mount Tabor Indian Community of Rusk County, Texas

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 7th, 2007
Sixty-Seven Nations and Counting: Proceedings of the Seventh Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Patrick Pynes
Description
Author traces the participation of the Cherokees in the assassination of Major Ridge, along with their subsequent move to East Texas.
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In Search of the Meritocracy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steve Russell
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 400-411
Description
The author describes his experience moving from position as a judge in Texas to that of a professor in a post-secondary institution; notes barriers to tenure and promotion and discusses how University policies created conflicts for him as a member of the legal profession.
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Indian Depredations in Texas

Alternate Title
Reliable Accounts of Battles, War, Adventures, Forays, Murders, Massacres, Etc., Etc., Together with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Monst Noted Indian Fighters and Frontiersmen of Texas
Original Narratives of Texas History and Adventure
E-Books
Author/Creator
J. W. Wilbarger
Description

Reprint of the ed. published by Hutchings Printing House, Austin, Texas, 1889.

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Indian Notes [Vol. 7, no. 3, July, 1930]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
G. Weltfish
T. T. Waterman
Rudolf Schuller
George G. Heye
Samuel K. Lothrop ... [et al.]
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Articles on various topics including coiled gambling baskets of the Pawnee and notes on textiles of central Chile.
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Kónitsąąíí gokíyaa Ndé: 'Big Water People's Homeland' a Shadow of Self-Determination in a Bifurcated Traditional Territory

Alternate Title
Strengthening Partnership Between States and Indigenous Peoples: Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margo Tamez
Description
Highlights Ndé concepts and perspectives of self-determination and decision-making with regard to children, mothers, fathers, families and communities. Presented at the 3rd United Nations Seminar on Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements entitled: "Strengthening Partnership Between Indigenous Peoples and States".
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The Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing: Implementation of NAGPRA in Texas

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steve Russell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 193-211
Description
Examines how the law meant to prevent grave robbing, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), works in Texas, where property rights remain supreme and the state fails to act on the legislation.
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Notes on the Kado, or Sun Dance of the Kiowa

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hugh Lenox Scott
American Anthropologist, vol. 13, no. 3, New Series, July-September 1911, pp. 345-379
Description
Description of the ceremony and discussion of possible origins.
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Response to Perttula

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darrell Creel
Matthew S. Taylor
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, p. 197
Description
Response to comments made in Caddo Populations in Northeast Texas: A Response to Taylor and Creel.
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Transcending the Borderlands: Elements of the Anzalduan Mestiza Consciousness in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

Alternate Title
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rachael Price
Description
Describes how elements from these novels serve as a mirror of hybridity theory with an emphasis on stories and the idea of journeys for true cultural unity.
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Who Lies Buried in Satanta’s Tomb? Co-memorating a Kiowa Warrior

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew Lopenzina
Travis Franks
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 249-280
Description
Authors re-examine the discourse surrounding the life and death of the Kiowa leader Satanta; discuss how even contemporary perceptions of Indigenous historical figures are rooted in colonial narratives of conquest which sought to diminish the humanity of Indigenous peoples and extinguish Indigenous title in favour of white settler expansion.
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