A Victim-Centered Approach to Crimes Against American Indian & Alaska Native Children: Resource Guide and Workbook for Drafting New or Amended Tribal Laws on Crimes Against Children
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pat Sekaquaptewa
Roe Bubar
JoAnne Cook
Description
Workbook and resource guide provides examples, narratives and discussion questions to target law services for the community.
A Victim-Centered Approach to Domestic Violence Against Native Women: Resource Guide for Drafting or Revising Tribal Laws Against Domestic Violence
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sarah Deer
Carrie A. Martell
Hallie Bongar White
Maureen White Eagle
Description
Guide to assist tribal governments with laws regarding the safety of Aboriginal women and children. Written so that revised tribal laws reflect tribal values. Provides examples from different tribal codes.
Village Public Safety Officer [VPSO] Turnover and Reported Violent Crime in Alaska Native Villages
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darryl S. Wood
Northern Review, no. 28, Spring, 2008, pp. 246-260
Description
Study findings found villages with a VPSO generally had similar crime rates to those without. These results indicate that violent crime rates are partly a function of having a person to report a crime to.
Vine and the Divine, Revisited: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Holy
Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 2008 Western Social Science Association Meeting, American Indian Studies Section
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thomas J. Hoffman
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2008, p. [?]
Description
Discusses Deloria's approach to religion and spirituality in Western and Nonwestern traditions.
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Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and the Criminal Justice Response: What is Known
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ronet Bachman
Heather Zaykowski
Rachel Kallmyer
Margarita Poteyeva
Christina Lanier
Description
Provides an overview of the epidemiology of violence and criminal justice responses.
The Violence of Collection: Indian Killer's Archives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Dean
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 3, Winter, 2008, pp. 29-51
Description
Explores Sherman Alexie's novel, Indian Killer, focusing on the final chapter entitled, "Creation Story."
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Waiting for Coyote's Call: An Eco-Memoir From the Missouri River Bluff
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mark D. Dixon
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1, Winter, 2010, pp. 71-72
Description
Book review of: Waiting for Coyote's Call by Jerry Wilson.
Watered by Tempests: Hurricanes in the Cultural Fabric of the United Houma Nation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Daniel D'Oney
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster, 2008, pp. 11-26
Description
Examines several hurricanes and how they affected the history and culture of the Houma people in Louisiana.
"Ways To Help And Ways To Hinder": Climate, Health, And Food Security In Alaska
Theses
Author/Creator
Philip A. Loring
Description
[Cross-Cultural Studies]Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010.
We Are All Related
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Daniel Wildcat
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 2, Native Green, Summer, 2008
Description
Describes the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, formed by tribal colleges and universities, which brought together leading scientists and elders to address climate-related problems.
"We Were Recruited From The Warriors of Many Famous Nations," Cultural Preservation: U.S. Army Western Apache Scouts, 1871-1947
Theses
Author/Creator
Paul J. Barbone
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2010.
What’s in a Name? Tribal Colleges Cultivate Students’ Cultural Identity
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joye Braun
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 3, Beyond Our Names: Uncovering Identity, Spring, 2008
Description
Discusses the origin of college names for the Blackfeet Community College and Chief Dull Knife College.
White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Trish Luker
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 51-53
Description
Book review of: White Mother to a Dark Race by Margaret D. Jacobs.
Who's Afraid of Fritz Scholder?: Images of the American Indian 1600-2000
Alternate Title
Wyeth Foundation for American Art Conference 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul Chaat Smith
Description
Curator of Indian/Not Indian discusses the exhibitions held in New York and Washington, D.C.
Wild American Savages and the Civilized English: Catlin's Indian Gallery and the Shows of London
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert M. Lewis
European Journal of American Studies, vol. 1, no. 6, Spring, 2008, pp. 2-18
Description
Overview of American painter George Catlin's London exhibition as a mission to inform the English of the doomed Indian culture.
"With Anything Manmade There is Going to be Danger": The Cultural Context of Navajo Opinions Regarding Snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Adam Dunstan
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-6
Description
Comments on the objections to use artificial snow made from reclaimed treated sewage water, due to the sacred nature of the peaks.
The Women's Warrior Society
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Barbara Rose
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 161-163
Description
Book review of: The Women's Warrior Society by Lois Beardslee.
Women the World Must Hear: A School For the Sky People
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Weston
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Becoming a Healer, Fall, 2008
Description
Highlights the commitment of the Wind River reservation in Wyoming to offer Arapaho language immersion at the elementary school in an effort to keep the language alive for years to come.
Writing for Connection: Cross-Cultural Understanding in James Welch's Historical Fiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph L. Coulombe
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 2008, pp. 1-28
Description
Discusses how Welch's fiction examines links between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals, and how the two cultures intersect in both positive and negative ways.
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Written Out of History: A Critical Analysis of Political Science and Policy Studies
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terry Scott Ketchum
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 21, no. 3, Fall, 2010
Description
Looks at the absence of Native Americans' political issues and systems of governance in the discipline of Political Science.
Wuyámush (Be Happy, Be Well - Pequot): Adapting a Mental Health and Healing Experience to a Southeast New England Native American Community
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gretchen Chase Vaughn
Michele Scott
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. lv-lix
Description
Discusses the success of a Mental Health Day.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page lv.
Ýaat Kíl hl Sñ'at'áa! Alaskan Haida Phrasebook
E-Books
Author/Creator
Áljuhl Erma Lawrence
"You Can't Run Away Nowadays": Redefining Modernity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alicia A. Kent
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 22-46
Description
Examines The Surrounded, a novel by one of America's best known Native American authors.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.
"You Wanted to Know Where You Were and Who I Was": Searching for Identity in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Sharon Butala's Wild Stone Heart: An Apprentice in the Fields
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Irena Dudová
Description
Examines two novels in the context of theories of ecofeminism.
English Language and Literature Thesis (B.A.)--Masaryk University, 2010.
Youth Leisure in a Native North American Community: An Observational Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Greg S. Place
Jennifer S. Livengood
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 117-141
Description
Investigates youth recreational activities in the northern Ontario community of Wapakeka and notes the activities enjoyed are a mix of Euro-American and Native American games of skill.
Yua: Spirit of the Arctic: Eskimo and Inuit Art from the Collection of Thomas G. Fowler
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Roslyn Tunis
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2010, pp. 37-39
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 37.
Yuungnaqpiallerput: The Way We Genuinely Live, Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chris Trott
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 2008, pp. 435-438
Description
Book review of: Yuungnaqpiallerput by Ann Fienup-Riordan.
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