American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, 1980, pp. 55-74
Description
Study compared 72 Cherokee students to 72 Anglo-American students enrolled in public elementary schools; looked at age and sex trends, cross-cultural differences in cooporative and competitive behaviour, and how those behaviours might affect academic achievement.
MELUS, vol. 7, no. 1, The Need for Choice, Spring, 1980, pp. 61-78
Description
Contends that James Welch's novel is strongly influenced by the Gros Ventre and Arapaho cultures, especially the themes of spirituality and commitment to insight.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, 1980, pp. 1-19
Description
Discusses how the myth and ideas it embodies are foundational to a worldview which informs all relationships, codes of behavior, and ways of governing.
Looks at William Duncan's cultural imperialism that produced a religious movement of mixed Christian and Native rites in the Metlakatla Tsimshian groups.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 1-2, 1980, pp. 165-177
Description
Discusses the attributes and attitudes that make this literature unique and argues that because of this it requires a different approach to literary criticism. Focuses on works by N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Silko.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, 1980, pp. 55-83
Description
Focuses on the Europeans' impact on Yurok, Hupa, and Karok peoples and how subsequent changes to religious ceremonies have caused many to refuse to participate in them.