Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-47
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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.
American Antiquity, vol. 55, no. 3, July 1990, pp. 585-591
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Considers the issue of repatriation of human remains as an ethical/cultural conflict within the field of archaeology; discusses means of resolving this conflict based in negotiation and mutual respect; concludes that archaeology must “change the way it does business,” and presents a course for this change.
Social Science History, vol. 34, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 113-128
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Examines the study of ethnographic cultures and Indigenous customs as it developed in the American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission.
The Public Historian, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer, 2007, pp. 53-67
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Discusses how Southern legislators and administrators refused to acknowledge American Indians as a distinct society and lumped them with blacks as a method of cultural erasure.
Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 43, no. 3, 2010, pp. 711-732
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Looks at Riel's exile in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion; examines the tensions between French and English Canada over Riel's execution; and discusses the two statues which serve as a metaphor for the relationship between liberal and colonial dynamics in Canada political history.
Ethnohistory, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 263-304
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Looks at the interaction between the United States government and aboriginals during the assimilation period, and the ways in which their employment was an important but short-lived component of United States Indian policy.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 121-140
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Author argues that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States doctrines contain no legal basis for regulating or eliminating the use of Indigenous symbols, images, or stereotypes as mascots or logos in sports and/or business.
Child Welfare, vol. 74, no. 1, January-February 1995, pp. 264-82
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Discusses the law passed in 1978 as result of actions initiated by the Devils Lake Sioux in collaboration with the Association on American Indian Affairs (AIAA); the objective was to reverse the trend of out-of-home placement, and in particular trans-racial placements.
Discusses the results of a cross-case study of 39 regional partnerships in the Great Lakes region. Found six factors influence willingness to stay engaged: respect for Indigenous knowledge, control of knowledge mobilization, intergenerational involvement, self-determination, cross-cultural education, and early involvement.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, Prophets: Religious Leaders and Revitalization Movements, Summer, 1985, pp. 335-351
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Explores the Ghost Dance social and religious movement and its prophet Wovoka. The Ghost Dance was created during times of hardships for the American Indigenous people in hopes of a return to happier times.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 567-577
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Author highlights the ways that the United States’ Legal System has been used by the colonial state government to remove the land and rights of Indigenous peoples.
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 1976, pp. 163-185
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Reviews the United States educational policy that aimed to prepare Native Americans for "citizenship and civilization" initially provided support for boarding and separate day schools and later for public school education.
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 53, no. 2, 1989, pp. 301-325
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Examines various cases with respect to fiduciary obligations of the Crown, and argues that there seems to be a movement to discount the distinction between surrendered and unsurrendered reserve land.
New York History, vol. 95, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 408-431
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Discusses the New York state-appointed doctor's efforts to protect children from contagious diseases and advocate for improvements in health care delivery to Native American population.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 115-122
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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.