American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 16-42
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Author explores the meanings that are made by the La Paz Run, an annual commemoration of the hundreds of Hualapais who, in 1875, broke out of an internment camp in Southern Arizona and followed the Colorado River for almost 200 miles back to their reservation at the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 81-105
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Discussion on how the United States government used the intermarriage between Indians and non-Indians to undermine Indian control of their own lands and legal identity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 177-231
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Book reviews of 18 books:
Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie.
Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler.
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg.
How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield.
I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John.
Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, American Indian Family History, Summer, 1991, pp. 339-358
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Author challenges the assumption that population growth among Indigenous people during the early reservation period was an indicator of the success of the reservation health care system. Argues that maternal/infant health is a better indicator and considers the Northern Cheyenne people as an ethnohistorical example.
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, Autumn, 2008, pp. 283-302
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Discusses how Indigenous soldiers, who performed the same labor tasks as white soldiers, were institutionally marginalized and distanced as a second-class.
National Forum, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. [31-33?]
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Looks at the Seneca Nation Settlement Act of 1990 that compensated for the failure of the United States federal government to carry out trust responsibilities and to protect interests.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 225-230
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Article considers and compares the two different perspectives on the Hopi-Navajo Land Dispute that are contained in Children of Sacred Ground by Catherine Feher-Elston and Cry, Sacred Ground by Anita Parlowe.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 121-140
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Author argues that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States doctrines contain no legal basis for regulating or eliminating the use of Indigenous symbols, images, or stereotypes as mascots or logos in sports and/or business.
California Law Review, vol. 96, no. 1, February 2008, pp. 185-233
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Argues that despite the U.S. government's responsibility and statutory obligations, it has failed to adequately address the issue of domestic violence, and that in order curtail the problem, tribes must have the power to exercise more control.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 297-323
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The author examines the political context of the “savagery vs civilization” binary in the culture of the United States and the ways that the resulting narrative allowed denial of Indigenous land ownership and enforced the religious and imperial narratives that have become an implicit part of the national discourse.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 106-145
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Discussion on intermarriages between whites and Native Americans and the role the federal government played, both bureaucratically and ideologically, in orchestrating them.
Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, vol. 36, no. 1-2, 2008, pp. 89-104
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Looks at data from the National Violence Against Women Survey and explores barriers around reporting rape to the police in American Indian communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 1-17
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Article examines the Indian Policy of the United States government; argues that the policies hold at their core an evolutionary perspective on social development which places the United States government in a paternalist role, guiding Indigenous people through the evolution of their race.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 201-216
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Article examines the role and effects of the Office of Indian Affairs’ (OIA) Field Matron Program; considers the evolution of the program to include Indigenous women as Matrons and examines the assimilation and resistance seen as a result.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, American Indian Family History, Summer, 1991, pp. 287-309
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Author uses archival census and records and counts to examine the changing family dynamics of the Crow peoples during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 153-170
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Author examines attempts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to terminate Indian tribes’ status and recognition in the United States following the second world war. Focuses on the Eastern Cherokee and the conditions surrounding the Nation’s fight for continued recognition.
National Forum, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. [18-20?]
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Looks at the many and varied services provided by tribal governments and the tenacity, resourcefulness and political ability these governments have to survive.