The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, pp. 77-84, 188
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Examines how figurative and symbolic language provide significant ways to make sense of the world. and are common forms of communication across many cultures.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 192-214
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Analyzes a speech given by Duwamish and Suquamish Indian Chief Sealth or Seattle, along with Henry Smith's account, concerning the concession of native lands to the settlers and a plea for respect of Native American rights and environmental values.
Social Indicators Research, vol. 103, no. 3, September 2011, pp. 299-314
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Analyzes Early Development Instrument to measure kindergarten children in the following categories: physical health and well-being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive development, communication skills, and general knowledge.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 43, no. 4, Growing Roots: Native American Evidence-Based Practices, October-December 2011, pp. 302-308
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Looks at the effectiveness of treatment, prevention and recovery programs at the Family & Child Guidance Clinic of the Native American Health Center located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, Summer, 2011, pp. 372-393
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Examines the romanticism and primitivism that plague Native American studies by looking at Hopi Indian religion and how they deal with the problem of evil.
Alif, no. 31, The Other Americas, 2011, pp. 133-151
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Discusses Jim Northrup's Rez Road Follies, Thomas King's The Truth About Stories, and Paul Chaat Smith's Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong in terms of the techniques used to critique government actions in their respective countries.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 56-74
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Discusses how "Blood Run" exposes the limitations of repatriation legislation, most significantly, how NAGPRA's current definition of American Indian identity falls short of sovereign tribal conceptions of identity and tribal responsibility for the repatriation of ancestral remains.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 79, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 850-878
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Examines Indigenous ceremonial practices, government and missionary attempts to suppress Indian dances, and cultural notions about what constitutes "religion".
The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Third Series, April 1969, pp. 267-286
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Reviews historic relationship with Native Americans through works by Helen Hunt Jackson, Annie Abel, William N. Fenton, Grant Foreman and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, vol. 34, no. 1/2, Things Not Easily Believed: Introducing the Early Modern Relation, Winter/Spring, 2011, pp. 97-126
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Reports on the way Jesuit missionaries heard, recorded and reported the beliefs of the Wendat (Huron) people and how this may have shaped the context of the translations.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 1-55
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Examines the role of religion in the stereotyping of Native Americans, and looks at the representations of Native American religion in theater through an analysis of visual images including John White's drawings, Theodor de Bry's engravings, and Paul Green's outdoor drama.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, pp. 191-192
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Book review of: Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader by William Berens ; as told to A. Irving Hallowell and edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown and Susan Elaine Gray.
International Journal of Sociology of the Family, vol. 37, no. 1, Policing Motherhood, Spring, 2011, pp. 69-84
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Data from interviews with Lakota and other women on the Pine Ridge Reservation about motherhood management by the State and American Indian Health Service.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2011.
Discusses works by Susan Power, James Welch, Sherman Alexie, Anna Lee Walters, Louis Owens, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Louise Erdrich.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
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Book reviews of:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie.
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 159-212
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Book reviews of:
Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 by Victoria Smith
Caring and Curing: A History of the Indian Health Service by James P. Rife and Alan J. Dellapenna
Conversations with Sherman Alexie edited by Nancy Peterson
Documents of Native American Political Development, 1500s to 1933 edited by David E. Wilkins
Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers by Dorothy Harley Eber
Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight by Shannon D. Smith
Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750 by William B.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 183-246
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Book reviews of:
An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M. Turner ; edited by Raymond L. Hudson.
The Arapaho Language by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr.
Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and Plains Cree, 1868–1885 by Jill St. Germain.
Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows.
Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson edited by David H. Dye.
Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J.