Radio report discusses Sherman Indian High School in Riverside California and the controversy over whether the Federally-funded schools should closed. Accompanied by article.
Duration: 7:46.
Biography, vol. 31, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 397-428
Description
Looks at the journal by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed recounting colonial contact between whites and Indigenous people in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908–09.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 187-198
Description
Shows how declining agricultural results forced people to look at other means of survival, how the arrival of railroading provided the alternative employment opportunity needed, and how this all led to the departure of many Laguna to distant areas as wage laborers.
Ground-breaking film chronicles twelve hours in the lives of young Native Americans who had migrated to Los Angeles from their reservations during the 1950s. Originally released in 1961.
Duration: 72:00.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 1998, pp. 117-136
Description
Anticipating the passage of the 1994 Death Valley National Monument Act, the Timbisha Shoshone passed a resolution calling for the establishment of 160,000 acres of reservation land, located both inside and near the Death Valley National Park.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Autumn, 2008, pp. 412-442
Description
The author explores different expressions of conversion to Catholicism in the daily practices of the different Indigenous peoples in the San Francisco Bay area; considers where people chose to give birth or die and the practice of various traditional protocols.