Presents three positions papers:
Reflections on Contemporary Indian Education by Vine Deloria.
An Historical Overview of Indian Education with Evaluations and Recommendations by Lehman L. Brightman.
Eastern American Indian Communities by Robert K. Thomas.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Authors examine disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies and agreements which include Indigenous peoples and communities in their planning processes. Article advocates for respecting Indigenous approaches, knowledges, and land use practices; accurate, appropriate, and ethical data collection.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 300-308
Description
Reconsiders the colonial narrative surrounding Pocahontas and Wahunsenaca (Powhatan) created by John Smith in Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles (1624) as a “mode of storytelling that destroys and moves to supplant traditional Indigenous kinship structures and obligations.” Argues that Smith depicts colonization as a war between British patriarchal structures and Indigenous systems of kinship.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 8, no. 1, 2019, pp. 35-55
Description
Examines a shift in the practices of the Tamang ethnic community in Nepal; argues that the Choho institution is still present, and many practices are still present enacted as resistance against the modern state. Considers how the meaning of these practices may have changed in a contemporary context.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Article examines some of the barriers to the engagement and participation of urban Indigenous communities in municipal policy-making. Author asserts that racial and cultural stereotyping and discrimination against Aboriginal peoples and communities are key issues.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 121-130
Description
While others celebrate the 'discovery' of the New World, the 1.5 million Aboriginal peoples in the United States will celebrate their survival against centuries of genocide, legal restrictions on religion and language and other oppressive measures.
Northern Review, no. 48, October 18, 2018, pp. 3-32
Description
Defines a city’s “primacy” as having three factors: a large population in comparison to other cities in the country, economic preeminence, and symbolic of a national cultural identity and assesses how well Nuuk fulfills those criteria.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 343-353
Description
Authors argues that under systems of treaty relations and Aboriginal law Indigenous peoples have the authority to regulate the way in which they are re-peopled, and that Canadian laws and policies have worked to obscure this authority.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 507-531
Description
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).
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 281-305
Description
Study examines the potential for using opt-in internet surveys as means to study the political attitudes and behaviors of Indigenous people in the United States.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 3-12
Description
Describes the signing of Treaty six at Fort Carlton and the adhesion of the Willow Cree on August 28 of 1876, and the relationship between the Crown and the Cree peoples in following years.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, [Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism], 2019, pp. 95-118
Description
Uses cases studies from Nicaragua and South Africa to compare colonization and imperialistic practices and how these experiences helped with the formation of what the author describes as Indigenous internationalist feminism.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 29-41
Description
Relates how colonization and Western influences have caused societal problems in Indian cultures. Restorative justice models by the Navajo and Haudenosaunee are also explored.