American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 16-42
Description
Author explores the meanings that are made by the La Paz Run, an annual commemoration of the hundreds of Hualapais who, in 1875, broke out of an internment camp in Southern Arizona and followed the Colorado River for almost 200 miles back to their reservation at the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 24-55
Description
Looks at the 1994 Mohegan case for tribal recognition and the link to Samson Occom's scholarly works.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 24.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-15
Description
Explores different ways that Indigenous relationships to land and place have been disrupted by settler-colonialism; offers suggestions for disrupting and unsettling neocolonial and neoliberal frameworks surrounding land and place.
Discussion on the disparities in public education, policies intended to improve and enhance equity, and recommendations for accountability & policy reform.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 297-323
Description
The author examines the political context of the “savagery vs civilization” binary in the culture of the United States and the ways that the resulting narrative allowed denial of Indigenous land ownership and enforced the religious and imperial narratives that have become an implicit part of the national discourse.
Describes why indigenous self-determination, now accepted at both the national and international level,
are hard rights to exercise due to the fact that they are not expressed in any specific institutional arrangement.
*Research paper from Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 204-218
Description
Author examines the financial successes the Pequot nation has achieved through the Foxwood Casino and other ventures; considers the strategies used by the nation and how those strategies have allowed for success.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the Pequot activist and writer's attempts to subvert the myth of the "Vanishing American", and his unique position as an Indian intellectual in the early 1800s.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 7-24
Description
Examines civil rights and sovereignty issues. The article argues that interests of anti-racists, local and state governments jealous of tax bases, corporate America and the federal government are converging in a way that even the Supreme Court will not be able to contain.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues that treaties are a fourth-world text, both promoting and negating sovereignty. To gain in the courts means the American legal system is recognized and ultimately pronounces decisions that effect the reality of Native Americans.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 96-110
Description
Article advocates for the restructuring of Diné (Navajo) governance, self-determination, and sovereignty based on the calls from Diné scholars to restructure tribal governance in a way that returns to traditional philosophies and frameworks
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 57-81
Description
Explores the political, social, and cultural significance the Chief raising ceremony had on the identity of the Oneida in 1925, as seen through the eyes of media.
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2008, pp. 9-21
Description
Discusses how historically both countries shared motivations and educational goals for residential schools and looks at contemporary responses.
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Resisting Exile in the Homeland: He Mo'oleno No La'ie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hokulani K. Aikau
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 70-95
Description
The author explores the contradictions in the different narratives about place—Indigenous and Mormon—surrounding the town of Lā'ie on O’ahu. Works to problematize the oppositional relationship between Indigeneity and modernity. Explores sites of resistance occupied by Kanaka Maoli members of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 111-114
Description
Book review of: The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations by Kevin Bruyneel.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 111.
Looks at existing research on rights, political mobilization, and ecosystems; and identifies alternatives to the existing rights discourse that can facilitate a meaningful and sustainable self-determination process for Indigenous peoples around the world.