American Literature, vol. 80, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 677-705
Description
Discusses how Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk contextualizes the Battle of Bad Axe within previous conflicts between the U.S. government and Indigenous peoples of the Great Lake region over conceptions of landholding, diplomacy and trade.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 1-6
Description
Introduction to a special issue of Canadian Journal of Native Education titled "Indigenous Knowledges and the University" which is dedicated to the challenges and opportunities of bringing Indigenous Knowledges and Academia together.
Poem by Nils-Aslak Valkeapāā and translated by Ralph Salisbury, Lars Nordström and Harald Gaski describes how the Sámi people live in relation to the land.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 1975, pp. 1-13
Description
An overview and analysis of the Nanticoke, a lost Indigenous group from Maryland adopted by the Delaware, their death rituals, and the Skeleton Dance and its significance.
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vol. 14, no. 5, June 2008, pp. 497-504
Description
Evaluates the commonalities of 47 people who were given a 10% or less chance of survival beyond five years and sought out traditional healers for help with cancer.
Journal of Military History, vol. 72, no. 1, January 2008, pp. 71-104
Description
Examines the cultural significance of scalping among the Pawnee Indians, who lived in Nebraska and Kansas until their removal to Oklahoma in the 1870s.
Resisting Exile in the Homeland: He Mo'oleno No La'ie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hokulani K. Aikau
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 70-95
Description
The author explores the contradictions in the different narratives about place—Indigenous and Mormon—surrounding the town of Lā'ie on O’ahu. Works to problematize the oppositional relationship between Indigeneity and modernity. Explores sites of resistance occupied by Kanaka Maoli members of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 50, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 355-376
Description
Discusses the history of one group of Indians from southern Arizona who embraced the Christian devil cosmology and related theories of sickness and cure.
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.