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Public Perceptions and the Importance of Community: Observations from a California Indian Who Has Lived, Learned, and Taught in Indiana, Oklahoma, and Wyoming

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William J. Bauer Jr.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 62-66
Description
Author describes their varying experience attending and teaching at three different Universities, stresses that the perception and treatment of Indigenous people in these institutions is directly related to the institution's engagement with and knowledge of contemporary Indigenous communities.
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Remembering the Forgotten Minority: An Analysis of American Indian Employment Patterns in State and Local Government, 1991–2011

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Valerie H. Hunt
Melissa A. Taylor
and Daniel “Ramon” Cox
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 31-54
Description
Study analyzes 24 years of US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data (1991-2015) from eight states to examine the degree to which Indigenous people are overrepresented in the lower paying, less desirable, non-managerial, public sector positions in local and state government bureaucracies and underrepresented in the more desirable, better paying, managerial positions.
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Sacajawea

Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Harold P. Howard
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Teacher's Guide: In the Light of Reverence

E-Books
Author/Creator
Faith Regow
Description

For use with documentary of the same title which explores clashes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people over three sacred sites and the use of land for recreational and commercial enterprises. They are: the Lakota and Devil's Tower; the Hopi and the Colorado Plateau; and the Wintu and Mt. Shasta.

Recommended for Grade Seven to adult audiences.

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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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A Wheel-Shaped Stone Monument in Wyoming

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
S. C. Simms
American Anthropologist, vol. 5, no. 1, New Series, January-March 1903, pp. 107-110
Description
Description and drawing of the Big Horn medicine wheel.
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Women the World Must Hear: A School For the Sky People

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Weston
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Becoming a Healer, Fall, 2008
Description
Highlights the commitment of the Wind River reservation in Wyoming to offer Arapaho language immersion at the elementary school in an effort to keep the language alive for years to come.
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