American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 191-214
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Argues that when business is carried out with a commitment to survivance, relationships and community, it is not in opposition to traditional values. Reports results of qualitative interviews with individual entrepreneurs who incorporate these values into their practices.
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, Special Issue Commemorating The Sesquicentennial of Cherokee Removal 1838-1939 , Fall, 1989, pp. 519-539
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Looks at the plight of the Cherokee Nation during this period ending with their removal to Oklahoma.
Analysis of the impact on resource developments for Indigenous communities in the Canadian Arctic.
Chapter two in Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic edited by Chris Southcott, Frances Abele, David Natcher, and Brenda Parlee.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 54-71
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Describes Miranda’s tribal memoir as an act of resistance which disrupts archival and mainstream narratives around Indigenous nations, dispossession, and human-land relationships. Focuses of female voices and perspectives, and on narrative sovereignty.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 251-272
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Article discusses the way that landownership has been historically leveraged by women of different ethnic groups in the USA to generate income and support their families. Authors examine cases from the late 19th and early 20th century and compare the experiences of Dakota Sioux and Scandinavian immigrant women on the Northern Plains, and African American women in the South.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 199-225
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Author examines The American Prairie Reserve’s (ARP) proposal for reintroducing bison in Montana in the context of shifting American identities, competing economic interests, and a push to restore and preserve the natural ecosystems of the region.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
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Delves into the creation of the White Earth Reservation, the allotment periods, and tribal bingo as a source of income, education, and the evolution of their religion for the Chippewa Nation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 117-133
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Interview with co-producer and co-writer of My Louisiana Love, a documentary which details the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the BP oil spills on her family and community.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 56-78
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Discusses texts by Thomas King, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko and the way in which they engage the practices and results of neoliberalism, globalization, and extractive resource-based economies.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 13-24
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Compares Western permaculture theory and methods to the agroforestry-based food cultivation practices of the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Upper Amazon.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 2, 2018, pp. 117-133
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Discusses the resilience of reciprocity rites practiced by the Chukotka people in Russia; describes how the people continued to practice these rites, which honour their relationships with the reindeer and the salmon on which they subsisted, even as the Soviet state reordered the social and economic structures in their region.
American Journal of International Law, vol. 83, no. 3, July 1989, pp. 599-604
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Discusses recommendations from a United Nations conference on effects of racism and discrimination on social and economic relations between Indigenous peoples and countries they live in.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 36-53
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Discusses Ortiz’s essay in the context of contemporary concerns surrounding water and environmental damage as forms of oppression of marginalized peoples. Calls for Indigenous led resistance to government and corporate control, and for dismantling systemic factors of oppression which sacrifice peoples and lands in favour of neocolonial and corporate interests.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 1-9
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Discusses some of the sociopolitical issues and topics addressed in special issue including #NoDAPL, the cuts to the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water sovereignty, regulation and distribution, and extractive practices.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 10-35
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Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.