United States Government

Arts and Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1986.

Book review of: War Parties in Blue by Mark Van De Logt. Review located by scrolling to page 202.

Looks at the relationship between the Indian and the United States Government, treaties and treaty-breaking.

Describes how the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and the organization called Washington Partners collaborate to advocate for policies which support tribal colleges and universities.

Discusses Ortiz’s essay in the context of contemporary concerns surrounding water and environmental damage as forms of oppression of marginalized peoples. Calls for Indigenous led resistance to government and corporate control, and for dismantling systemic factors of oppression which sacrifice peoples and lands in favour of neocolonial and corporate interests.

Discusses the historical and political challenges for Indigenous religions in the United States. Despite these challenges Indigenous religions have survived and even had a resurgence within Indigenous communities.

Considers Potawatomie’s address at the 1893 World’s Fair, in which he used the platform to expose the realities of the U.S. Government Indian policy, as a rhetorical strategy of resistance and an attempt to garner sympathy from the public at large. Discusses the implications and potential fallout of Potawatomie’s move.

Author asserts that previous studies on Indigenous people’s engagement in the American Revolution focus on the role played by tribes and their members rather that the effects of the war on Indigenous communities. Article reconsiders the Revolutionary war from the perspective of the Shawnee people.

Focuses on Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors' fight against construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, United States v. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska’s defense of Blackbird Bend.

Includes post-viewing, comprehension and discussion questions, and activities.

Discusses the spiritual significance and history attached to the Black Hills.

Argues that emphasis on vocational curriculum not only stemmed from the belief that Native Americans were not fit for higher education, but was also intended to erase tribal identity, history, and communalism, and foster individualism.

Uses the increasingly wealthy U.S Native Americans, due to the gambling industry, as an example of growing political strength.

Discusses the study of Chitimacha basketry.

Provides a definition of genocide and argues that the vast majority of Native Americans died of diseases.

Comments on what constitutes a Native American.

In speech, noted author uses a coyote story as a springboard for a discussion on European-Aboriginal relations throughout the history of Canada and United States. To listen to this audio, scroll down to Part 5. Duration: 54:22.

Explores sites of conflict between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples that are created by the United States government’s designation of wilderness protection areas in areas that interfere with the treaty-protected harvesting rights of Indigenous peoples.

Book review of: When the Wolf Came by Mary Jane Warde.

Creative piece that examines the relationship between Indigenous people and liberal Americans during the protests following the election of Donald Trump in the United States.

Author explores the United States Government’s termination movement and the resulting resistance from the Menominee people situating the response within the context of the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Red Power Movement, and the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Author examines stereotypes about the Apache people and how these narratives affect the way that the Apache people are perceived and engaged with by the United States government in land disputes generally, and specifically in relation to the Mt. Graham Observatory case.

Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.

Compares and contrasts the social and mores existing in American Indian societies of the nineteenth century with those of the Anglo-Europeans. The article also discusses the effects of assimilation and post-assimilation policies on those social structures.

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.

Looks at the opinions of five students attending tribal colleges as to who they think would be the best 2008 U.S. presidential candidate.

Republished from Trahant Reports, April 26, 2017.

Discusses motivations for involvement such as old feuds, loyalty to treaties with the government, and proving patriotism.

Author offers some perspective on the process of colonization in the period between 1849 and 1890 and on everything that was lost in in that time to the Sioux peoples; also discusses the current moves towards healing, resurgence and cultural reclamation.

Describes the petition, against the United States, Sheila Watt-Cloutier is taking to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, regarding greenhouse gas emissions.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1937.

Developed to provide employees of the United States government with information on cultures, history, federal laws, organizations, consultations and federally recognized tribes.

Discussion of efforts to improve working relationships between tribes and government by developing a tribal consultation process for health issues.

Poem that deals with the 1862 removal of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota from their lands, their forced march to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling, and the execution of 38 men by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”

Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.

Interview with author about his thoughts on Aboriginal life, films and literature. Discusses Welch's books Fools Crow and Killing Custer.

Book review of: Yellow Dirt by Judy Pasternak. Review located by scrolling to page 238.

Film reports on the 1969 demonstration and confrontation on the St. Regis Reserve (Akwesasne) and the international bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. This film contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised. Duration: 36:48.

Brief list with annotations and suggested audience

Book review of: Zuni and the Courts edited by E. Richard Hart.