Journal of Research in Rural Education, vol. 26, no. 3, 2011, pp. 1-13
Description
Explores a theoretical perspective that assertive individuals with a strong cultural identity are more likely to return to tribal areas and seek careers in which they serve Native communities.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. [1]-37
Description
Discusses how the political activist chose to represent herself in order to use the media to further her cause.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 1.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 61-86
Description
Discusses the creative aspects of Blackhorse Mitchell’s use of Navajo English in Miracle Hill, as well as Mitchell’s own discussions of what he was attempting to do in the poem The Drifting Lonely Seed.
Contains links to individual poems by Della Frank, Joy Harjo, A. A. Hedge Coke, Roberta D. Joe, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Simon Ortiz, Carter Revard, Wendy Rose, Luci Tapahonso, Mark Turcotte, Carlson Vicenti, Gertrude Walters, and Elizabeth Woody.
Histories of Anthropology Annual, vol. 6, 2010, pp. 129-170
Description
Looks at how Sol Tax incorporated action anthropology, through conventional tactics, into his goals of challenging the United States government policies and also challenged assimilationist ideals found in both science and politics.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. [38]-69
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Discusses how the author uses the perspectives of several narrators to show how stories, both historical and fictional, structure perceptions of "reality" and Native Americans.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 38.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 49-75
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Looks at the connection between images and stories in the documentary and exposes the politics associated with American Indian filmmaking.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 49.
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 387-407
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Studies population trends, using archaeological settlement remains and methods developed in recent research on Iroquois cultures, to create a model of two precontact Native American populations and show the effects of European contact.
Organization & Environment, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2010, p. 76–98
Description
Argues that Impact and Benefit Agreements may provide more direct engagement with industry and a sharing of benefits from resource development than has been provided in Northern Canada.
Contends that since early "autobiographies" were a collaboration between Aboriginals and Europeans, they are distorted and fail to convey the true essence of the personal narrative, which is an oral tradition.
Early American Literature, vol. 45, no. 2, 2010, pp. 251-260
Description
Discussion on Native literary studies from the historical past to the contemporary present, examining the relationship between the academic fields of early and contemporary Native American literature.
Looks at the history of mistreatment, the resulting destitution of communities, and rise in alcoholism and type II diabetes.
Capstone Experience Manuscript--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.