Bureau of Indian Affairs

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In Albuquerque: an Indian Education Resources Center

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William J. Benham
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 12, no. 1, October 1972, pp. [21-24]
Description
Describes a Center that provides leadership, resources and rights advocacy training.
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Indian Affairs 1973: Hebrews 13:8

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vine Deloria
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 108-112
Description
Looks at aspects of Native American history including allotment of land.
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Indian Boarding Schools and the Therapeutic Residential Model

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith A. DeJong
Stanley R. Holder
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 13, no. 2, 2006, pp. 1-16
Description
Examines changes in the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs residential schools, and looks at how many students are at risk.
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Indian Child Welfare: A Status Report

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Margaret C. Plantz
Ruth Hubbell
Barbara J. Barrett
Antonia Dobrec
Children Today, vol. 18, no. 1, January-February 1989, pp. 24-30
Description
Highlights the findings of the U.S. Indian Child Welfare Act administered by the Administration for Children, Youth and Families and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Indian Education For What?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosalie Wax
Murray Wax
American Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, Indian Today, Fall , 1965, pp. 164-170
Description
Looks at the reasons behind the high school drop out rate at the Oglala Community High School of Pine Ridge Reservation.
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Indian Education in Arizona

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Roessel
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 1, no. 1, June 1961, pp. [33-38]
Description
Overview of three types of schools: Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, public schools, and mission schools.
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The Indian in a Wartime Nation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Collier
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 223, Minority Peoples in a Nation at War, September 1942, pp. 29-35
Description
Written by the Commissioner of the U.S. department of Indian Affairs during World War II, article discusses: Native Americans response to and participation (military and non-military) in the war effort, reactions to the Selective Service Act and the problems that would be encountered post-war.
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Indian Land, White Man's Law: Southern California Revisited

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Imre Sutton
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 265-270
Description
Argues that a consistent, fair, and equitable policy of land restoration, in the United States, is the only way to resolve Indigenous land claims.
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Indian Lobbyists: Cherokee Opposition to the Allotment of Tribal Lands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tom Holm
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 1979, pp. 115-134
Description
An examination into the introduction of land allotments into Indian Territory and the efforts of Cherokee lobbyists to prevent its implementation in the late nineteenth century.
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The Indian Matter of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona: From Fact to Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Byers
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter, 1975-1976, pp. 331-346
Description
An examination of the creation and an analysis of the novel which is a fictional retelling of the author's 1883 report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that described the conditions and needs of the Mission Indians in California.
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The Indian Policy of the United States (November 1886)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jefferson Davis
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 64-68
Description
Comments on the responsibilities of the United States government towards Native Americans. Originally published in North American Review, November 1886.
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Indian Record (Vol. XXIII, No. 10, December, 1960)

Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
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Indian School Journal [Vol. 11, No. 12, October 1911]

Documents & Presentations
Description
Monthly magazine was produced by the U.S. Indian Service and published at the United States Indian Training School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. On cover: A Magazine Printed by Indians. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Indian School Journal [Vol. 19, No. 7, March 1919]

Documents & Presentations
Description
Monthly magazine was produced by the U.S. Indian Service and published at the United States Indian Training School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Indian School Journal [Vol. 5, July, 1905]

Documents & Presentations
Description
Monthly magazine was produced by the U.S. Indian Service and published at the United States Indian Training School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. On cover: The Navajo: His Reservation and Shall We Have Normal School for Indian Teachers?. Articles reflects the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Indian School Journal [Vol. 6, no. 2, nos. 7-8, nos. 10-11]

Documents & Presentations
Description
Monthly magazine was produced by the U.S. Indian Service and published at the United States Indian Industrial and Agricultural School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time. Document cannot be downloaded, but can be viewed.
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Indian School Journal [Vol. 7, no.1-2, 1906; vol. 7, no. 5, no. 10, 1907]

Documents & Presentations
Description
Monthly magazine was produced by the U.S. Indian Service and published at the United States Indian Training School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time. Entire document cannot be downloaded, must be viewed page by page, using "jump to" feature, or through table of contents.
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"Indian Self-Government" as a Technique of Domination

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Biolsi
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 23-28
Description
Biolsi responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy"; examines the ways that the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) used tribal governments to manufacture consent to government policies in Indigenous communities.
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The Indian Student Is "Not" Low Man On the Totem Pole

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Madison Coombs
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 9, no. 3, January 1970, pp. [1-9]
Description
Argues that the overly negative impression left by U.S. Senate Cubcommittee report does more harm than good.
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Indian Students and Reminiscences of Alcatraz

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steve Talbot
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 93-102
Description
Argues that there were eight themes in the story of Alcatraz which anthropologists ignored, and these are: self-determination, unity, equal educational opportunity, cultural revitalization, mutual assistance, changes to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ecolog, and the land base for Aboriginal self-sufficiency.
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The Indian System (October 1864)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
H. B. Whipple
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 34-39
Description
Review of the Indian Affairs Commission report for 1863 and History of the Sioux War by I.V.D. Heard. Originally published in The North American Review, October, 1864.
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Indian Trust: Cobell v. Norton

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Elouise Cobell
Description
Describes events in a class-action lawsuit filed in 1996 against the U.S. Government seeking an accounting of monies held in trust for Native Americans since the late 19th century.
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Indian Unity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. E. Officer
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 3, no. 3, May 1964, pp. [1-8]
Description
Discusses changes in education statistics, local government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Indians at Work

Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
U.S. Office of Indian Affairs
Description
"News sheet for Indians and the Indian service." published by the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs (later called the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs). Coverage includes vols. 1-10, 1933-1945.
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