Presents a study looking into educational provisions for Michigan Native Americans contained within treaties made between the United States and the Anishinaabe Three Fires Confederacy governments.
Technical Report (U.S. Department of Justice) ; NCJ 249939
Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Steven W. Perry
Description
Report summarizes census of State and local law enforcement agencies, census of state and local prosecutor offices serving Tribal lands, census of Tribal law enforcement agencies and national survey of Tribal court systems.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 81-84
Description
Book reveiw of: Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 81.
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1-2, November 28, 2016, pp. 21-39
Description
Author reflects on Vizenor’s concept of the “compassionate trickster,” and how that understanding of irony and humour in Indigenous art has affected the author’s own research and career in academia.
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marija Kneževiċ
Description
Discusses how the comic mobility of the trickster is used to address serious social issues in Sherman Alexie's volume of short stories.
Excerpt from Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Website deals with the misappropriation of a Quileute legend by Stephanie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series.
Contains links to Quileute culture, twilight misconceptions, imaginary indians, and resources.
Discusses the increase in tourism the movie has brought to the town of Forks, Washington and the near by Quileute Indian Reservation and the appropriation of tribal cultural property.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 129-135
Description
Provides a look at chapter XXI, "Civilization of Savage Barbarity", and chapter XXII, "Is this Right?", from the novel Wynema.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 63-79
Description
Examines the history of Aboriginal cross-gender roles and discusses approaches to improve the quality of social work practices by including traditional Aboriginal practices and worldviews.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, 2016, p. [?]
Description
Discusses impact of president-elect Donald Trumps decision to withdraw from the UN Climate Change talks and Paris agreement and instead commit to more fossil fuel extraction.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 25, no. 2, Fall, 2010, pp. 107-124
Description
Book reviews of:
The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations by Kevin Bruyneel.
American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790–1880 by Deborah A. Rosen.
Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 25, no. 2, Fall, 2010, pp. 107-124
Description
Book reviews of:
The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations by Kevin Bruyneel.
American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790–1880 by Deborah A. Rosen.
Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-21
Description
Looks at Choctaw mythology involving self-discovery and the false divisions between this world and the spirit world in Louis Owens’s The Sharpest Sight.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
E-Books » Chapters
Description
Presents the resolution that was formulated and acted upon by the participants of the 30th American Indian Language Development Institute, Tucson, Arizona on the 2nd of July, 2009.
Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
Author comments on attending 3 learning experiences in North America and the information he gained from each one.
"A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust funded learning experience to Canada and the United States, June 2015".
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 5, 2016, pp. 15-33
Description
Looks at present services provided by the American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeast Michigan and results from needs assessment project, Gda'shkitoomi" (We are able).
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Stacey I. Oberly
Description
Case study using the Ute Reference Grammar.
Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 217-220
Description
Response to Robert McGhee's simplification and mischaracterization of Indigenous archaeology in a 2008 article, focusing on three main points of contention: insufficient sampling, caricature, and questionable treatment of colonialism and notions of "Aboriginalism".
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 63-73
Description
Article documents the author’s interview with the novelist Anna Lee Walters about her novel Ghost Singer and includes corrections and clarifications sent by Walters after reading the transcript of the interview. Includes commentary on the text, literature, cultural interactions.