Museum Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 1, February 1992, pp. 29-43
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Assesses two major museum exhibits as individual projects and as illustrations of broader issues concerning the representation of Native Americans: Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Chiefly Feast: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch at the American Museum of Natural History.0892-8339
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 39-52
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Author asserts that previous studies on Indigenous people’s engagement in the American Revolution focus on the role played by tribes and their members rather that the effects of the war on Indigenous communities. Article reconsiders the Revolutionary war from the perspective of the Shawnee people.
National Forum, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring, 1991, p. 7
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Brief general discussion of Montana's American Indian enrolment statistics, problems encountered when tribal colleges apply for accreditation and a cooperative effort by three institutions to ease the transition from tribal colleges to four-year institutions.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1-22
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Comments on the way tribal status was determined and depicts the historical background of the tribe which inhabited the eastern section of Long Island.
Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice , vol. 11, 1991, pp. 74-106
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Discusses model used in the United States which depends on American Indian tribunals and protection agencies to made decisions and looks at supporting legislation as well.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2 , Spring, 1992, pp. 28-48
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Explores how Erdrich transforms her Chippewa oral traditions to create a female character who is able to transform between human and animal in her novel Tracks.
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Looking to the Future: Papers from the Seventh Inuit Studies Conference, 19-23 August, 1990
Regard sur l'avenir: Communications du Septième Congrès D'études Inuit, 19-23 Août, 1990
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Jørgen Thorslund
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Paper from Looking to the Future: Papers from the Seventh Inuit Studies Conference, 19-23 August, 1990 edited by Marie-Josée Dufour and François Thérien.
American Literature, vol. 64, no. 1, March 1992, pp. 49-70
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Reviews Native American elements in The Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison identifying perspectives that Seaver (the editor) and Jemison disagreed on.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 49-64
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Examines the character of Pauline in Tracks and how the reader discovers how she becomes Sister Leopolda of Love Medicine.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 171-185
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Author examines oral storytelling and the ways that meaning is made in and by the act. Discusses issues of context, timing, cross-cultural engagement, and resistance to colonialism and neocolonialism.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 381-395
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Author summarizes, reviews, and compares several children’s literature books with Indigenous content, highlighting the elements of each book that contribute to a faithful or an inaccurate portrayal of the Indigenous peoples and cultures.
American Indian Law Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 1992, pp. 589-637
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Discusses how declarations as a sovereign nation and using established rules of customary international law, will with help the tribe in the return of its cultural property