About Indian Boarding Schools: Background to Louise Erdrich's Poem
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Modern American Poetry
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Department of English
University of Illinois
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Contains links to: Key Issues and Challenges, A School's 1912 Daily Schedule, Excerpts from Zitkala-Sa's Nineteenth Century Account, About the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, About the Phoenix Indian School, Assimilation through Education, An Indian Boarding School Photo Gallery.
Investigates literature-based assumptions about gifted Native American youth with input from educators on the Navajo, Standing Rock and Red Lake reservations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 1-36
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Discusses recent tribal, state, and congressional legislative efforts to identify and recognize the service of Native Americans who served in the Armed Forces during a foreign conflict and who transmitted secret coded messages for tactical military operations during World War I and World War II, using native tribal language.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 61-86
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Discusses the creative aspects of Blackhorse Mitchell’s use of Navajo English in Miracle Hill, as well as Mitchell’s own discussions of what he was attempting to do in the poem The Drifting Lonely Seed.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 2, Digital Technologies and Native Literature, Summer, 2011, pp. 100-103
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Book review of: The Sweet Smell of Home by Leonard F. Chana, Susan Lobo, and Barbara Chana.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 100.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 91-118
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Discusses the legal and political fights for water in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, and the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and looks at the impact of water-rights in those communities.