American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2009, pp. 113-163
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Book reviews of 22 books:
African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizen by Celia E. Naylor.
American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle and the Law by Matthew L. M. Fletcher.
Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya by Charles S. King.
Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660 by Cynthia J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
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Book reviews of 20 books:
American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen.
Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement.
Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 76, no. 4, December 1995, pp. 628-643
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Critical commentary on the article "Desperately Seeking Absolution: Native Agency as Colonist Alibi?" by Robin Brownlie and Mary-Ellen Kelm, published in Canadian Historical Review Vol. 75, No. 4, December 1994, pp. 543-557.
American Antiquity, vol. 55, no. 3, July 1990, pp. 585-591
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Considers the issue of repatriation of human remains as an ethical/cultural conflict within the field of archaeology; discusses means of resolving this conflict based in negotiation and mutual respect; concludes that archaeology must “change the way it does business,” and presents a course for this change.
Discusses the results of a cross-case study of 39 regional partnerships in the Great Lakes region. Found six factors influence willingness to stay engaged: respect for Indigenous knowledge, control of knowledge mobilization, intergenerational involvement, self-determination, cross-cultural education, and early involvement.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Education: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, Spring, 1994, pp. 194-196
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Review of: First Nations: The Circle Unbroken by Geraldine Bob, Gary Marcuse, Denna Nyce, Lorna Williams. Four video cassettes plus Teachers' Guide and Implementation Workshop for Teachers: A Guide.
Looks at politics and practices of cross cultural communication by examining the historical and current status of American Indians as subjects and participants in the educational system.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 1, February 1988
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Examines three perspectives that were factors in the campaign to assimilate aboriginal people through schooling: the Protestant ideology, the civilization-savagism paradigm, and the quest for land by Whites.
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".
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
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Considers the influence of both federal administration and personal vision on the translated responses of tribal people who testified before the committee that investigated fraudulent land allotment at the White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 73-109
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Book reviews on:
Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles.
Phoenix Indian School by Robert Trennert.
The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America by Kenneth Lincoln with Al Logan Slagle.
The Indians of Texas: An Annotated Research Bibliography by Michael L. Tate.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by John C. Fremont.
Among the Sioux of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience as an Indian Agent, 1869-70 by D. C. Poole.
Sovereignty and Symbol: Indian-White Conflict at Ganeinkeh by Gail H.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 223-268
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Book reviews of:
American Indians and National Parks by Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek.
Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archeology of the Unknown Past edited by Richard F.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 159-207
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Book reviews of:
American Indians in World War I: At War and At Home by Thomas A. Britten.
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child.
Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 by Patricia Galloway.
Daily Life on the Nineteenth-Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones.
Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation by Jamie Sams.
The Great Peace: The Gathering of Good Minds (CD-ROM) by Raymond Skye et.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, pp. 141-186
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Book reviews of:
Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection edited by Simon J. Ortiz.
Bringing Indians to the Book by Albert Furtwangler.
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 by Steven W.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, 1989, pp. 97-128
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Book reviews of:
The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert J. Conley.
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880 by Thomas D. Hall.
Collections Arctiques by Yvon Csonka.
New Directions in American Indian History edited by Colin G. Calloway.
Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy by Vynola Beaver Newkumet, Howard L. Meredith.
Sous le signe de l'ours.
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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, 1990, pp. 93-174
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Book reviews of:
As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada by James B. Waldram.
Sun Journey: A Story of Zuni Pueblo by Ann Nolan Clark.
Maricopa Morphology and Syntax by Lynn Gordon.
The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History by John H. Moore.
Pride of the Indian Wardrobe-Northern Athapascan Footwear by Judy Thompson.
Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View of the Sioux War of 1876 by Sherry L.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 129-178
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Book reviews of:
Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America edited by Brian Swann.
Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota by Sally J. Southwick.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature edited by Joy Porter and Kenneth M.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 415-431
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Study defines the cultural values and symbols of the Snoqualmie people and then uses the maintenance of these cultural pieces to evaluate the resistance of the Snoqualmie to assimilation.
American Antiquity, vol. 57, no. 4, October 1992, pp. 704-710
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Response to Goldstein and Kintigh’s 1990 article "Ethics and the Reburial Controversy;" argues that repatriation results in the destruction of archaeological collections and presents a serious conflict between religion and science. Asserts that archaeologists must maintain their rights and duties as scholars.