Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 3, Fall, 2015, pp. 1-33
Description
Argues that more attention should be paid to cross-genre nature of Indigenous creative production. Focuses on the recurring single frame cartoon "Acorn Soup" featured in the journal as an example.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 161-172
Description
Discussion on the linguistic imperialism of purism and monolingualism; and looks at the ideological transformation needed to preserve, revitalize, and reclaim heritage languages.
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. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 101-111
Description
Author discusses his experience in working with the Hopi tribe, and the development of culturally sensitive dispute-resolution services and legal systems.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 47-54
Description
Looks back over the field of Native American literature and criticism, and makes some predictions as to the future direction of American Indian studies.
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. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 55-58
Description
Discusses some of the issues of the beginnings of Native and Indigenous studies. The article also suggests that what one needs to look at more precisely is at what people mean when they talk about those beginnings, namely specific figures and practices within indigenous traditions.
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
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Author/Creator
John Bodinger de Uriarte
Melissa Biggs
Description
Looks into the question of whether profits from Native American gaming helped to establish or expand Native American museums and cultural centers as venues for cultural self-representation.
Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013.
Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Looks at the way diasporic experience builds and represents identities in the documentary video project entitled Taraspanglish Shorts/Cortos Tarasplanglish.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall, 2015, pp. 28-55
Description
Discusses how the Cherokee's loss of control over education impacted leaders' ability to promote a common national identity among their scattered population.
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.