Journal of College Student Retention, vol. 2, no. 2, 2000/20001, pp. 141-159
Description
Students identified persistence, commitment to community, family, financial, and institutional supports as contributing to their success. Barriers were lack of funding, negative experiences in high school, lack of affordable housing and childcare.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 673-699
Description
Looks at Apess's historical address given in 1836 in which he uses the power of the role as a Christian minister and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement to argue for Native rights.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Native Activism, Fall, 2010, pp. 46-47
Description
Presents the short story, Where Are We Going by Brian Sloan, that discusses the viewpoint that each generation seems to be moving further away from nature.
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.
Virtual exhibition deals with contemporary artists' response to past colonization.
Contains links to: Tolerating Tourists, Changing Reservation Realities, School Bells and Haircuts, and Beyond Smoke and Mirrors.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2 , Spring, 1992, pp. 28-48
Description
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.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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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Author/Creator
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 Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 107-125
Description
Describes the destruction of the wolf and argues that with the reintroduction of the wolf to their native habitat, there may be a restored harmony and balance for the Navajo people.
Guide to help communities gain economic strength and autonomy through private sector philanthropy by creating American Native controlled community foundations and endowments. Provides an overview of giving traditions.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-6
Description
Comments on the objections to use artificial snow made from reclaimed treated sewage water, due to the sacred nature of the peaks.
American Literature, vol. 64, no. 1, March 1992, pp. 49-70
Description
Reviews Native American elements in The Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison identifying perspectives that Seaver (the editor) and Jemison disagreed on.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2000.
Examines works by Rudolfo Anaya, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Ana Castillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen and Sandra Cisneros.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 49-64
Description
Examines the character of Pauline in Tracks and how the reader discovers how she becomes Sister Leopolda of Love Medicine.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 381-395
Description
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.