Youth & Society, vol. 17, no. 4, June 1986, pp. 381-395
Description
Discusses the impact on retention when students experience a clash between their cultural beliefs and the system in post-secondary institutions. Author conducted survey of 101 first-year students enrolled at University of Oklahoma in 1975 to test this theory.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter, 1984, pp. 37-49
Description
Using Lakota leader Black Elk's relationship with Christianity to discuss the evolution of Indigenous religions influenced by European culture, ideals and religion.
American Antiquity, vol. 49, no. 2, April 1984, pp. 288-314
Description
Describes a stratified site that includes Clovis, Folsom, Agate Basin-Hell Gap, and Alberta-Cody cultures along with several thousand sites of more recent dates.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn, 1984, pp. 281-314
Description
Looks at the court transcripts of the White Earth Chippewa Reservation land allotment fraud cases. Anthropological Professors Albert Jenks and Ales Hrdlicka provided testimony regarding "mixed blooded" and "full Indians" status based on physical characteristics.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, The History of American Indian Leadership, Winter, 1986, pp. 65-82
Description
Challenges the stereotype of static Indigenous political organization with an investigation of the historical adaptability of Indigenous leadership on the Great Plains.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring, 1984, pp. 117-125
Description
Using the work of writer-artist Paul Goble to compare the depiction of Plains natives in his books versus the more stereotypical images found in most children literature. These inaccurate depictions become part of children's worldviews depicting Indigenous peoples as a lost culture rather than a group that continues to adapt throughout history.
Describes how the Heard Museum created interest in Native American and Indigenous peoples art and discusses how some of this art attempted to make comprehensible what was incomprehensible.
Indian Tribal Studies Programs in the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne J. Stein
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Autumn, 1986, pp. 29-33
Description
Argues that academic process can be used to restore traditional knowledge and that the Tribal Community College provides a forum for discussion of concerns.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn, 1984, pp. 315-329
Description
Examines the protagonists and use of the trickster archetype in Indigenous author's fictional stories. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn and James Welch's Winter in the Blood and The Death of Jim Loney are the novels examined.
Book review of: Halfbreed by Maria Campbell as a life history, in the style of an autobiography. (Reproduced in Literature Resource Center, Gale Group)