Justice as Healing, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1998, p. [?]
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Project offering alternative approaches and services for youth in the present justice system.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Child Welfare, vol. 77, no. 4, July/Aug 1998, pp. 441-460
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Looks at information gathered from interviews conducted with clients to develop a course of action for child protection. Text from interviews included.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 187-198
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Shows how declining agricultural results forced people to look at other means of survival, how the arrival of railroading provided the alternative employment opportunity needed, and how this all led to the departure of many Laguna to distant areas as wage laborers.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 117-134
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Historical look at how those individuals seeking to create Native American urban organizations, such as the American Indian Center, encountered rejection.
BC Studies, no. 19, Indians in British Columbia, Autumn, 1973, pp. 21-49
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Looks at educational achievement by comparing reservations and cities in the United States and overall Canadian population. Summarizes earlier studies.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 89-102
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Outlines some of the general characteristics of urban Aboriginal communities in the United States and indicates the ways in which urban communities interplay with individual and group identity.
Based on a 1997 discussion. Includes urban offenders' relationship to their community, jurisdiction overlap, programs and service delivery including sentencing circles, restitution, and justice councils.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 103-115
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Looks at, what the author calls "internal colonialism", how a whole generation have been born, raised and socialized in the city and cut off from the "natural" world.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 73-82
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Discusses themes and issues incorporated into the poems in such works as Not Vanishing, In Her I Am, Fugitive Colors, and Fire Power.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 43-65
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Statistics show that the Aboriginal population is significantly younger and growing more rapidly than the general population of the United States. Statistics also show that it is a population significantly poorer and more at risk in terms of accidents, suicides, homicides, and deaths linked to alcoholism.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 227-254
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Second generation urban Native Americans speak about their childhood experiences and sense of identity as well as sense of conflict and loss caused by failing intergenerational transfer of tradition.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 15-27
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Contends that many Native American peoples have lived highly urbanized lives for many millennium, thus dispelling the myth that all these people live in rural areas with a low density of population.