American Indian Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 2, Spring, 1999, pp. 23-37
Description
The authors examine the campaign, local media coverage, and the exit poll of the 1994 Navajo presidential campaign and election offer analysis of the even and its significance.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 1-36
Description
Argues that for problems of identity the strategy for change requires committed leadership, populations that demand change, and changes to institutions and bureacracies.
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, 1999, pp. 712-774
Description
Looks at the legal and regulatory basis of forest management, and assess how new tenure systems might be developed that would uphold traditional values while providing economic and employment opportunities.
Looks at self-governance in Alaska, Canada, and the lower forty-eight states including eleven case studies.
Final report - AFN (Alaska Federation of Natives) version.
MELUS, vol. 17, no. 1, Native American Fiction: Myth and Criticism , Spring, 1991-1992, pp. [21]-38
Description
Contends that despite commonalities between the two figures, many more dissimilarities exist due to differences in Aboriginal and Western cultures and worldviews.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1991, pp. 28-35
Description
Introduces a proposal for a composition course that is based on American Indian autobiography, and is designed for upper-level English majors.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 205-215
Description
Examines a study in California offering practical and culturally sensitive steps for health care providers to help implement a focussed breast cancer educational program.
Change, vol. 23, no. 2, March/April 1991, pp. 11-18
Description
Explores Indian higher education beginning with early colonial efforts to the federal control focused on assimilation efforts and finally the move to self controlled Tribal colleges.
Council of Planning Librarians Exchange Bibliography ; 594
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James N. Kerri
Description
Supplement to the general bibliography section of American Indians (U.S. & Canada): A Bibliography of Contemporary Studies and Urban Research compiled by James N. Kerri.
Dated material. Published in 1974.
Explores the historical relationship between a variety of dances and games and fertility rites belonging to the Iroquoian and Muskogean linguistic families.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 185-203
Description
Argues that diabetes is not just a disease of the body but is a problem which needs to be understood within the context of Aboriginal history, culture, and experience.