American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 74-100
Description
Uses Elizabeth Archuleta’s (Yaqui) “ethos of responsibility” as a framework for considering the #NoDAPL Movement; discusses the relationships between Indigenous women water protectors, Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous rhetorics, and Dakota/Lakota/Nakota history and worldviews.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 398-438
Description
Discusses how Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) Secretary (1936-52), Thomas Robert Loftus (T.R.L.) MacInnes created and used racializing narratives to respond to Indigenous peoples’ resistance to assimilation and promoted “Indian executions” as a means to address “the problem.”
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, November 1994, pp. 597-655
Description
Discusses issues highlighted by commissions worldwide, as well as the different models employed. Examples discussed are countries that had undergone radical political changes and were in the process of transitioning from one regime to another.
Explains James Welch used strategic omissions as a way to imply the spirituality as a rationale for some character's disconnection with other characters.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Education: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, Spring, 1994, pp. 194-196
Description
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.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 121-130
Description
Author outlines a framework for well-being rooted in the concept of connectedness; the idea that wellness for Indigenous people comes from them being connected to their families, their communities, and the natural world.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 31-53
Description
Builds on Linda Tuhiwai Smith's short essay "Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects," and in acknowledgement of the essay and its 20th anniversary offers four more projects specific to Native American Humanities:
• Continuing
• Reknowing
• Sociologizing
• Valuing
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 39-51
Description
Authors examine zooarchaeological, taphonomic, and stable isotope analyses data in order to describe the relationship between humans and red foxes on Kodiak Island during the late Holocene era.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 32-42
Description
Uses data from the 2002 Census of Tribal Justice Agencies in American Indian and Alaska Native Jurisdiction to discuss the complicated issues of using on-reserve gaming revenues to fund tribal judicial systems; notes that while funding might be increased by gaming, so might be the need for tribal judicial resources.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, January/February 1994, pp. 7-8
Description
Loss of the traditional nomatic lifestyle has created environmental health problems in communities and town camps. Suggests health workers and Aboriginal educators should be employed to help communities develop and manage their own health strategies.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 1, The New Information Age, Fall, Aug 11, 2019
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Discusses the challenges faced by tribal librarians as they work to teach information literacy in both mainstream news and social media outlets while incorporating traditional or Indigenous knowledge and teachings.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 71-86
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Literary criticism article that examines the social and historical commentary contained in Vizenor’s novel, Heirs of Columbus, and how that commentary works to dismantle mainstream realities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter, 2019, pp. 101-132
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Examines how, between 1900 and the 1930s, some of the female students at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon were able to advocate for and affect change in their curriculum and in the limitations on their access to education.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 54-82
Description
Discusses the Two-Row poetry of Peter Blue cloud by comparing it to the Haudenosaunee Two-Row Wampum, and then uses “trans-systemic” analysis to map out the importance of two-row thinking for changing the relationship between Indigenous and settler-colonial legal regimes.