American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 113-125
Description
Discusses how colonization has disrupted communities' relationship with the land, efforts to restore the connection on the reservation, and how ideas about tradition and sustainability are linked to food sovereignty.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-47
Description
Examines the discourse around two different contested pipeline projects; discusses rhetorical elements including the difference between “claimed” and “government sanctioned” spaces, and whether the perspectives are consistent with or counter to mainstream perspectives. Highlights the differences in worldviews, understandings of cause and effect, and conceptualizations of time and space and the role these differences play.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 115-122
Description
Essay situates the #NoDAPL movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), within the historical context and the longer histories of Oceti Sakowin resistance against the trespass of settlers, dams, and pipelines across the Mni Sose, the Missouri River, and into Sioux territory.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Chief by M. W. Stirling
Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička
Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri by Edwin Thompson Denig, edited by J. N. B. Hewitt
"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.
"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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, 1979, pp. 295-316
Description
A history of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs' investigation into the Ghost Dance prophet Jack Wilson in the late eighteenth century. The investigation was filled with miscommunication, disinterest and confusion regarding the Ghost Dance and the identity of the "Indian Messiah".
Looks at coverage in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times of happenings in North and South Dakota for one month prior to and two weeks after the leader was shot and killed.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 4, 2020, pp. 59-78
Description
In 2016, Indigenous groups and allies met at Standing Rock, North Dakota to protest the creation of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Using interviews from participants to discuss Indigenous social movements, rooted in spirituality and ceremony, that moves away from the stereotypical viewpoint of Indigenous victimry.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 321-331
Description
Article offers an analysis of data collected about the voting practices of Indigenous voters in two different elections in the United States. 674 Indigenous voters in 7 states were interviewed, findings indicate that while income and education levels play a role, Indian status is strongly related to whether an individual voted in these elections.
Research Report (National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stewart Wakeling
Miriam Jorgensen
Susan Michaelson
Manley Begay
Description
Study consisted of literature review, visits to Indian police departments and the Indian Police Academy in New Mexico, a two-part survey administered to Indian police departments, and site visits to four reservations.
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.
Parliamentary papers / Great Britain. Parliament (1859-1865). House of Commons
E-Books
Author/Creator
Great Britain
Colonial Office
Governor General of Canada
Description
Correspondence between the commanding officers of the United States troops in Minnesota and the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Red River regarding the Sioux refugees in the British territory (which would become Canada).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 1990, pp. 19-38
Description
Chronicles the effects of government policy, which resulted in the relocation of members of the Chippewa Band to as far away as South Dakota and Montana.
Looks at historical and current data for the Dakotas, Montana, and Nebraska; of the 411 cases examined, 69% have occurred since 2000 and from 2017 through 2019 30-40 cases have been reported annually.