American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 187-201
Description
An investigation into the successful implementation of a Cherokee Female Seminary, modeled after seminaries in Massachusetts. The Cherokee Nation embracing a non-Indigenous education with fewer tribal traditions to adhere to leading to less feelings of alienation for the students.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2, Spring, 1987, pp. 97-125
Description
Looks at the evolution of the Cherokee legal system, from traditional blood feuds to a traditional tribal court system. However, the signing of the New Echota Treaty in 1835 saw the return to blood feuds within the Cherokee Nation.
Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, vol. 7, no. 1, 2013, pp. 52-70
Description
Discuses the Native American fine arts movement of personal expression and active engagement with mainstream modern art during the late 1940s. Focuses on the work of artists Chief Terry Saul, Walter Richard "Dick" West, and Oscar Howe.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Winter, 2013, pp. 77-110
Description
Examines ways that federal assimilation policies were actualized in the cultivation and consumption of food at the boarding school and the how the newsletter helped the students keep their identities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 241-254
Description
Using accounts from two former boarding school students to examine and compare their personal, social and culture experiences within a boarding school environment in Oklahoma.