Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, vol. 100, Special Supplement, 2006, pp. 877-880
Description
Discusses the impact of Public Law 93-638 on the IHS (Indian Health Services) delivery of eye care, deficiencies in the system and recommendations for improvement.
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 290-321
Description
Argues that while school officials regarded the practice of placing male students as farm labourers during the summer months as a method of assimilation, many used their employment to serve their own purposes.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 39, no. 2, Special Issue 3, Winter, 2000, pp. 1-18
Description
Argues that increasing recruitment, reducing turnover, changing the low expectation of teachers, updating outmoded curriculum, and support from parents are essential to improving student outcomes.
Describes events in a class-action lawsuit filed in 1996 against the U.S. Government seeking an accounting of monies held in trust for Native Americans since the late 19th century.
American Educational History Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2006, pp. 97-105
Description
Discusses the use of print media to promote educational reforms, substitution of community day schools for boarding schools, replacement of curriculum to promote Aboriginal culture, and the use of vocational programs to benefit Aboriginal communities.
Discusses works by authors: James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology , Summer - Autumn, 2006, pp. 280-310
Description
Author examines the colonial nature of historic and contemporary archaeological practice, offers a post-colonial critique of the methods and values of the field, and suggests strategies for decolonizing the field and upholding the rights and sovereignties of Indigenous peoples.
Literature review conducted to explore three topics: primary methodological approaches used by researchers, extent of participation by Indigenous peoples and organizations, and institutional, organizational, and human capital competencies and gaps in Canada, and how they compare to those in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 184, no. 10, May 15, 2006, pp. 502-505
Description
Survey used MEDLINE and PsychLit databases determine the volume and nature of publications on Indigenous health produced in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States in 1987–1988, 1997–1998 and 2001–2003.
Coverage includes historical and contemporary leaders, governance, and political activism in Canada, the United States, Circumpolar region, Australia and New Zealand.