Ethnohistory, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 263-304
Description
Looks at the interaction between the United States government and aboriginals during the assimilation period, and the ways in which their employment was an important but short-lived component of United States Indian policy.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 675-702
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Author examines the neocolonial practice of cultural appropriation as “theft of cultural property” and notes its connection to the erasure of history and language performed by colonial states.
Review of Research in Education, vol. 1997, 22, pp. 113-194
Description
Discusses the shift from assimilationist efforts in education to efforts to revitalize Native languages and cultures in support of an approach that values both Native and Western knowledge.
Oral History Review, vol. 24, no. 2, Winter, 1997, pp. 117-123
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Book reviews of:
They Called it Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School by K. Tsianina Lomawaima
To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920 by Clyde Ellis
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools by J.R. Miller.