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.
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.
For This Place, for These People: An Exploration of Best Practices Among Charter Schools Serving Native Students
Alternate Title
Charter Schools Serving Native Students
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Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eve L. Ewing
Meaghan E. Ferrick
Description
Study involved Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods, Pemayetv Emahakv "Our Way" Charter School, and Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School. Focus was on four areas: academic success, cultural content, student self-concept, and community engagement.
Film about conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, the history behind them and photographer Aaron Huey's efforts to bring to the attention of the American public.
Premiered at ShortsFest, Seattle International Film Festival 2012. Duration: 14 min.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. vii-x
Description
An introduction and historical overview into the California Indigenous groups fight for federal recognition and the articles presented in this special issue.
Community Mental Health Journal, vol. 48, no. 1, February 2012, pp. 56-62
Description
Comments on the need to enhance culturally relevant mental health and substance abuse treatment and prevention programs for urban American Indian/Alaska Native youth.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 409-420
Description
Using California land claims to argue that non-Indigenous witnesses and experts must state their personal assumptions, preconceptions, and definitions when presenting evidence for Indigenous land claim cases.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 471-480
Description
Looks at the historical merits of two Kashaya Pomo oral stories regarding the Hudson Bay Company's 1833 expeditions in California by comparing the stories with Russian and English written accounts from the era.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 1989, pp. 29-68
Description
Article focuses on the meaning of the occupation rather than the function, as well as the language, imagery, ideology and ideals attached to the event.
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Frederic Murray
Description
Examines two themes: the violent nature of Great Basin Indian history, and the sacred and cultural landscapes described by the salt songs of the Nuwuvi people.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 529-534
Description
The author describes his own experience of finding spiritual balance through a visit to the Tolowa's Yontockey village. The author examines how he found this spiritual balance, how he came to this realization and its implications.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 369-389
Description
Using Hupa oral history and Jedediah Smith's personal journals to track his movements through California in the late 1820s. Parts of Jedediah Smith's journal entries are included.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 325-345
Description
Looks at the creation of the US Acknowledgement and Research Branch to investigate California Indigenous tribes seeking federal recognition. Also includes a list of California tribes seeking federal recognition during the 1980s.
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.