Results from consultation talks by the Department of Education with Indian/Alaskan Natives in response to 2009 presidential memorandum. Concerns were expressed regarding funding shortages and fragmentation of the systems providing education.
Quantitative study of broadband access, device use, and uses of the internet by Tribal peoples. Combines survey results, normed against other national surveys, and case studies of six successful projects.
Discusses the increase in tourism the movie has brought to the town of Forks, Washington and the near by Quileute Indian Reservation and the appropriation of tribal cultural property.
Discussion on the injustice of the federal government's actions regarding Indian land rights and the class action lawsuit regarding the federal government’s failure to fulfill its fiduciary duty for assets held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Looks at lawsuit filed by the Colville Indian Reservation in 1951 against the United Sates government regarding lands used for the building of the Grand Coulee Dam.
History Capstone Thesis--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.
A Vanishing People: The Systematic Destruction of American Indian Identity for the Sake of American Manifest Destiny
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Francine M. Miranda
Description
Argues that governmental recognition of American Indian tribes as well as criteria for tribe membership needs to be altered.
Capstone Experience Manuscript--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 33-36
Description
Artist James Luna discusses what it means to be accepted as an American Indian by examining the criteria for tribal enrollment and critiques the work of self-declared Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 91-118
Description
Discusses the legal and political fights for water in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, and the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and looks at the impact of water-rights in those communities.