Paper prepared for the Eighth Annual Conference of the Indigenous Women’s Conference “Celebrating Our Diversity” Trent University, Peterborough, ON, March 15-17, 2007.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 109-119
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Explores the controversy surrounding overemphasis on Native American fictional literature in American Indian Studies and the dire need for understanding and solutions for social issues and challenges currently faced by Native Americans.
Journal of College Student Development, vol. 48, no. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 405-416
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Based on a study using a sample of 643 students who had taken the College Students Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ), two variables affecting student success were identified.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, Tribal College Students Today, Fall, 2007, pp. 30-35
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Findings of a three-year study of science students who had transfered to larger institutions to complete their degrees found three predictors of success: academic readiness, financial security and support systems.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2007, pp. 479-501
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Studies found that suicide is multi-determined and that there are no simple answers to the youth epidemic experienced worldwide. However, colonialism, and the residual effects of it, are cited as a common factor in all worldwide studies of suicide rates among Indigenous Peoples.
Provides a summary of suicide by Greenland and Alaska Indigenous youth and how social determinants can effect those numbers.
Chapter in Children and Youth in Greenland - An Anthology edited by W Kahlig & N Banerjee
To accompany film The Sun Dagger about discovery of a prehistoric calendar system in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico and the culture that built the site. Guide is for grades seven to twelve. Contains lesson plans, handouts and suggested readings.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 269-270
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Administered by the American Indian Studies Center, the survey gathered information from institutions about their programs as well as information from Native American communities regarding their education and training needs.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Rescuing Critically Endangered Native American Languages, Summer, 2007
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Presentation of an excerpt from a booklet titled "Encouragement, Guidance, Insights, and Lessons Learned For Native Language Activists Developing Their Own Tribal Language Programs". The booklet is a transcript of a conversation between Darrell Kipp and 12 native language activists at the Piegan Institute, a Blackfeet immersion school co-founded by Kipp.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 79-86
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Discusses how the live interaction between the speaker and listener is a different experience than the solitary activity of reading in teaching courses with many cultural
perspectives.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Looks at possibilities for technology to help reestablish and strengthen cultures, and issues surrounding accurate and authentic representations.
Excerpted from Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and Challenges.
MELUS, vol. 20, no. 4, Maskers and Tricksters , Winter, 1995, pp. 75-90
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Argues that Chippawa author Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart is radical and traditional at the same time and makes extensive use of oral tradition while employing postmodern narrative strategies within a written text.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 31-73
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Article relates a prophetic narrative recorded by the ethnologist Frank Cushing, and explores possible interpretations of the story and potential results.
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. 100, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 268-278
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Comments on dysconscious and systemic racism which justifies inequality as natural and deserved and cultivates a distorted way of thinking in institutions of mass media and education.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 451-465
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Literary criticism article that considers Humishuma’s (Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket) novel; examines the ways that the text was influenced and edited by Humishuma’s friend and mentor Lucullus V. McWhorter.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, 1985, pp. 1-32
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Identifies obstacles the Tlingit community must overcome in order to best utilize the authority allowed to them under the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 2, May 2007, pp. 173-202
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Looks at how Native American education became a model for the educational system in the Philippines based on the belief that the United States could maintain control by altering lifestyles to more closely resemble that of Americans.
Art Journal, vol. 54, no. 4, Winter, 1995, pp. 48-52
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Reviews and discusses work of Hopi video and filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Jr. who integrates experiences of traditional American Indian world with Native American media.
Speech to the people of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.by General John J. Sheehan, United States Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic Commander in Chief, U. S. Atlantic Command.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, Autumn, 1985, pp. 411-420
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Reviews John Cleland's 1758 satirical play Tombo-Chiqui: or, The American Savage that reflected the noble ignorant savage stereotype prevalent in Europe during the eighteenth century.