United States Government

Describes a hearing on the history of the reservation and the treaty related to natural resources, land, and preservation of the Sioux people.

Examines the ongoing debate regarding the application of the Charter to Aboriginal governments.

Discusses federal laws, court decisions and specific land claims commissions in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia.

Focuses on tribal power, resources, and legitimacy.

Looks at an off-reservation school that received Therapeutic Residential Model funding for the 2001-2002 school year and choose to use the funds for an intensive academic enhancement effort.

Education Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Washington, 1998.

Looks at the socioeconomic, political, and cultural factors that contributed to the spearfishing crisis in northern Wisconsin and the battered attempts by the Ojibwe to exercise their treaty-based fishing rights. The article also examines the state of relations between Native and non-Native residents.

Reports how the Alaska Area Specimen Bank (AASB) is a valuable resource and can be used to assess early markers for illness and disease.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012.

Book review of: Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education by Michael Jennings.

Reviews initiatives by Alaska and examines the applicability to the lower forty-eight states and Canada.

Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.

Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.

Focuses on the mobilization of Native American Tribes in a concerted effort to attain economic goals, with an empahasis on tactics used in relation to gaming on-reserve.

Comments on two National organizations formed in the early 20th century that promoted and advocated Native American rights and issues.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1997.

Overview of the Wanamaker Expeditions held to unify all Indian tribes under the principles of the Government of the United States.

Chapter 13 from: Child and Family Advocacy edited by Anne McDonald Culp. Looks at the Native Head Start Research Center.

Inventory and assessment of datasets collected by the American government; examines subjects, contents and accessibility, highlights data gaps and makes recommendations for future collection, storage and dissemination.

Chronicles the brief rise and fall of Bill S.2770, the Indian Finance Corporation Act, in the U.S. Senate in 1990, which, the author argues, could have been a powerful positive force in solving problems of underdevelopment.

Investigates the curriculum and boarding school procedures that created a breakdown of gender identity and gender roles.

Master's Thesis submitted in 1993 to the Institut Charles V of the University of Paris VII. Content includes: "War as a Civilizer" and Impact on the Life of Native Americans

Master's Thesis submitted in 1993 to the Institut Charles V of the University of Paris VII. Content includes: The Place of the American Indians in the Military in 1917, and Were Native Americans Subject to the Draft in 1917?

Article uses archival and ethnographic evidence to examine land tenure within a southwestern Oklahoma county; examines how the system created to protect the rights of Indigenous landowners actually functions to redirect access to the land, to the economic benefit of non-Indigenous ranchers and farmers.

Examines political and legal issues of the American Indian Movement in the 1960's and 1970's.

Discussion of "place" being incorporated into people as in Leslie Marmon Silko's and N. Scott Momaday's novels. Alcatraz, for example, became a "place of cultural emergence" though the process of reciprocal approriation.

Explains why political power has eluded Native Americans and what chance they have in becoming a participating and policymaking force in mainstream American society.

Looks at two instances in which the Department overrode community concerns: closure of two off-reservation boarding schools and the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Discusses the Americanization of naturalized Indian citizens and federal Indian law

Book review of American Indian Treaties by David H. DeJong.

Overview of methods used by U.S. government to move funds to tribes.

Chapter one from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

Looks at the challenges present for American Indian (AI) veterans to access all available health care services.

Very brief article discusses litigation surrounding a variety of discriminatory election practices. Access though table of contents.

Comments on the historical relationship between the Census Bureau and AIAN Nations, changes made to census gathering and recommendations for accurate future census counts.

Book review of: American Indians and the American Imaginary by Pauline Turner Strong. Review located by scrolling to page 163.

Discusses how an inclusive and participatory leadership can play an essential role in improving tribal governance with federal, state and local governments in the United States. Access article through table of contents.

History Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Texas Tech University, 1994.

History of Native American settlements in the Lower Mississippi Valley and the impact of the Indian Removal Act of 1883 when discussed in relation to Native American assistance after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Discusses Winnemucca’s 1883 book, Life among the Piutes, and her advocacy work on behalf of the Piutes; focuses on the rhetorical strategies and political positioning Winnemucca uses to represent her people and their interests to settler publics and government officials.

Environment Thesis (Ph.D)--Michigan State University, 2007.