UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Higher Education Research Colloquium
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy Fann
Description
Considers access to college in an ecological context that encompasses family, tribes, life on a rural reservation and previous educational experiences.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 127-165
Description
Discussion of the 1933 removal of the Timbisha Shoshone from Death Valley and then the 1994 legal requirement of the Department of Interior to study the ancestral lands within and outside of Death Valley National Park with the purpose of identifying lands suitable for a reservation.
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 67-84
Description
Contends that conditions were unsanitary and health professionals discourage local consultations with shamans for traditional treatments, both examples of broader reservation health trends of the times.
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 89-103
Description
Identifies three dimensions of Indigenous political economies (polity size, polity structure, landscape management practices) as important elements in colonial research.