Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 2, January 1986, pp. [18-23]
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Examines Chinle Agency's Summer Supplemental Special Education Program offered to teachers of Navajo tribes and surveys its effect on teacher attitudes toward the exceptional student.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1986, pp. [12-21]
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Discusses the rapid social change and long-term effects that undermined traditional self-sufficient Alaskan lifestyle including factors such as welfare dependence; and stresses strategies about education and community development are essential.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 93-102
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Argues that there were eight themes in the story of Alcatraz which anthropologists ignored, and these are: self-determination, unity, equal educational opportunity, cultural revitalization, mutual assistance, changes to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ecolog, and the land base for Aboriginal self-sufficiency.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 507-531
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Article draws on Collier’s autobiography and other writings to explore perceptions of his ideals and and actions as an Indian Affairs agent in the USA during the New Deal era (early 1900s).
Outlines key features of the Crown-Aboriginal relationship, looks at whether the conduct of the Crown has met the standard required, nature of the litigation process as well as specific examples of Crown conduct during, preceding and following court cases. Follows discussion with 10 recommendations for reform.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 34, no. 1, Fall, 1994, pp. [20-34]
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Study reveals that educators at locally controlled schools perceive themselves as having a greater impact on policy than Bureau of Indian Affairs school personnel.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 33, no. 2, Winter, January 1994, pp. [1-23]
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Previously unpublished report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education; highly critical of the system in place and advocates development of truly "Native" education.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 349-368
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Article defines “plenary power” and examines its roots and use by the United States Government against Indigenous peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Arkansas Law Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 1986, pp. 327-379
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Compares and contrasts the social and mores existing in American Indian societies of the nineteenth century with those of the Anglo-Europeans. The article also discusses the effects of assimilation and post-assimilation policies on those social structures.