American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter, 1975-1976, pp. 347-361
Description
An examination of the negotiations to remove the Western Cherokee from their homeland in Arkansas through the 1828 Treaty of Washington to the area known as Lovely's Purchase. Lovely's Purchase was named after William Lovely who secured the land from the Osages for the Cherokee people to use as a hunting ground.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 135-167
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Describes the minimum blood quantum requirement for tribal membership, the history of its implementation, and how it originated with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI); argues that blood quantum is a bureaucratic tool rather than a genuine measure of Indigeneity.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 1979, pp. 115-134
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An examination into the introduction of land allotments into Indian Territory and the efforts of Cherokee lobbyists to prevent its implementation in the late nineteenth century.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 39-48
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Author reflects on the international legal standards regarding the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty of Black Hills between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 21-33
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Examines the inaccuracies of Native American history by some white historians and the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision to enact the doctrine of discovery theory in 1831.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2007, pp. 310-332
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Examines the controversy surrounding the remarks made by Ward Churchill after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.
Studies the monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the changes since 2004 when Gerald Baker became the facilities first Native American superintendent.
American Literary History, vol. 13, no. 3, Fall, 2001, pp. 592-602
Description
Book reviews of 4 books:
Native Americans and the Early Republic edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, Peter J. Albert.
The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects by Renée Bergland.
The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Susan Scheckel.
Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876 by Eric Wertheimer.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 61-86
Description
Author considers the current status of the Potawatomi language, describes different efforts being made by both tribal and National authorities to revitalize the language, and examines the impacts of these projects.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 75-96
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Reviews and evaluates documentary and fictional Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s, in relation to how the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States is portrayed.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 341-360
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Author (an Anthropology Professor) attempts to define contemporary Indigenous identity in the Southwestern United States from an ethnographic perspective.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 1-24
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Author describes some negotiation and conflict that was, for the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples, a part of the transition from traditional hereditary leadership and governance systems to Western, elected systems of governance.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, Spring, 2021, pp. [121]-151
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An examination of opposition to the Nixon administration's creation of councils as a means to decentralize government support. Most tribal governments and national organizations resisted the use of these councils because they were implemented without consultation, the possibility that states would have control over decision-making and fears about termination of tribal status.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 325-345
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Looks at the creation of the US Acknowledgement and Research Branch to investigate California Indigenous tribes seeking federal recognition. Also includes a list of California tribes seeking federal recognition during the 1980s.
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 3, no. 3-04, Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Alternatives in Global Context (2): Recuperating Binarism, Sept 13, 2013, pp. 352-368
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Author explores some of the reasons that Indigenous communities in the United States have historically had low voter turnout. Compares the difference in perception of enfranchisement between Indigenous and Black American communities.