Understanding Tribal Sovereignty: Definitions, Conceptualizations, and Interpretations
Discusses tribal sovereignty and relevancy for Native Americans and presents theoretical interpretations from different Native scholars.
Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.
Underwater Panthers, Thunderbirds, and Anishinaabe Star Knowledge
Speaker relates seven star stories: Ojiig - The Fisher which encompasses the Big Dipper; Maang - The Loon, the inverted Little Dipper; Bishi Bizhiw - the Great Underwater Panther whose tail is the head of the Leo and its head which is the head of Hydra; Animikii Binesii - Thunderbird, the constellation Cignus; Nanboozhoo or Nanabush, the constellation Orion; Gwiingwa'aage "The One who Came from a Falling Star" - Wolverine which refers to a meteor striking the Earth and creating a lake; and No'aachige'anang - the Prophecy Star which refers to Halley's Comet.
Duration: 26:20.
Unexpected Parallels: Commonalities Between Native American and Outsider Arts
Unfinished Constitutional Business?: Rethinking Indigenous Self-determination
Unhappy and Unhealthy: Student Bodies at Perris Indian School and Sherman Institute, 1897-1910
Unknown Huichol: Shamans and Immortals, Allies Against Chaos
Unlikely Alliances: Treaty Conflicts and Environmental Cooperation Between Native American and Rural White Communities
Unsettled New York: Land, Law, and Haudenosaunee Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century
Unspeaking the Settler: "The Indian Today" in International Perspective
Compares essays from two special issues published in 1965 and 1968.
Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.
Up and Down With Mary Rowlandson: Erdrich's and Alexie's Versions of "Captivity"
Upholding Indigenous Freedoms of Religion and Medicine: Peyotists at the 1906-1908 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and First Legislature
Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940-2000
Urban-Indigenous Therapeutic Landscapes: A Case of an Urban American Indian Health Organization
USDE Violations of NALA and the Testing Boycott at Nāwahīokalani'ōpu'u School
Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire in American Indian and Caucasian Pregnant Women: A Validation Study
Use of Cognitive Question Testing Methodologies in Participant Action Research: Implementing the Three-Step Test-Interview Method in Indian Country
The Use of Law in the Destruction of Indigenous Religions in Canada and the United States: A Comparative Perspective
Using Community Based Participatory Action Research as Service-learning for Tribal College Students
Using Motivational Interviewing to Promote HIV Testing at an American Indian Substance Abuse Treatment Facility
Using Wood on King Island, Alaska
Utalotsa Woni--"Talking Leaves": A Re-examination of the Cherokee Syllabary and Sequoyah
Ute Leaders, 1868: Photographs Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian
Utilization of the Indians of British Columbia
Utilizing Drumming For American Indians/Alaska Natives With Substance Use Disorders: A Focus Group Study
Utopian Cannibals: Rewriting the Encounter in Early American Literature
UTTC Launches Dual-Enrollment Program
Vecino Economics: Gendered Economy and Micaceous Pottery Consumption in Nineteenth Century Northern New Mexico
[Velroy and the Madischie Mafia]
The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories
Violence Perpetration Among Urban American Indian Youth: Can Protection Offset Risk?
Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/Intellectuals
Curator's overview of exhibition of the same name. Discusses the work of selected artists, including Norman Akers, George Longfish, Gail Tremblay, Edgar Heap of Birds, Duane Slick, and Nadema Agard.
Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.