American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster, 2008, pp. 11-26
Description
Examines several hurricanes and how they affected the history and culture of the Houma people in Louisiana.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 45-67
Description
Explores the book for autobiographical sections and passages that could also be classified as myth, legend or fiction and how this influences the reader's treatment of the work as life writing.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
Interview with creator of a documentary about Native American participation in World I and II, Korea and Vietnam, produced for Wisconsin Public Television.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 2, Native Green, Summer, 2008
Description
Describes the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, formed by tribal colleges and universities, which brought together leading scientists and elders to address climate-related problems.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 224-257
Description
Comments on the work done by activist, Clyde Warrior, noting that his focus was always what could be done by and for American Indians, rather than focusing on what was being done against American Indians.
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.
Unlimited Boundaries: Dichotomy of Place in Contemporary Native American Art
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Nancy Marie Mithlo
Description
Excerpt from Unlimited Boundaries: Dichotomy of Place in Contemporary Native American Art exhibition organized by The Albuquerque Museum in collaboration with the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, January 28-April 15, 2007.
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2007-08
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kathryn E. Fort
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper
Description
Discusses the importance for all state court practitioners to understand the application of different laws and standards when handling Native American citizens in family law cases.
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.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Our Story, Our Way, Winter, 2007
Description
Describes stories told to the author by her mother and father in Diné and English and comments on the necessity of preserving both languages and stories.
American Studies, vol. 49, no. 3/4, Fall/Winter, 2008, pp. 5-38
Description
Comments on difficulties experienced by Americans adjusting to modernity, by firstly looking at the unconventional behaviour of audiences to the Wild West show.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 83-103
Description
Contends that humorist Will Rogers, who was a member of the Cherokee Nation, was appropriated and mainstreamed as a mythic American figure and consequently has been denied a prominent place in Native American literary history.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 83.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 141-177
Description
Article examines the ways that the Yamacraw Leader Tomochichi has been represented and misrepresented in historical texts and narratives surrounding the settlement of the Georgia; works to reconstruct a more accurate biography.
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.