Alternatives Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, Winter, 2003, pp. 58-61
Description
Book review of: Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of the Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971 by Donald Craig Mitchell.
Compares how two well-known Aboriginal works challenge limiting definitions of Aboriginal peoples and shows how the legal system manipulates these definitions to take away land or rights.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 49.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 91-117
Description
Examines the controversy of the 1862 Dakota Conflict in Minnesota, followed by the execution of 38 Sioux men, and questions whether military tribunals can balance civil liberties and state necessities.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 4, 2003, pp. 53-77
Description
Focuses on the Anishnaabe and changes they made in their negotiation tactics, away from a process dependant on ceremony, formal rhetoric and consensus decision-making, in order to remain on their land.
Demonstrates how the process of homogeneity imposed on Indian communities by the US government has created individuals possessing Indian roots but heavily influenced by American pop-culture. Uses two short stories by Sherman Alexie (Assimilation and Class) in his analysis.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 124.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1977, pp. 1-15
Description
An investigation of the evolving legal history of the Navajo Nation following the Second World War. The Navajo legal counsel provides legal opinions on land, resource development, employment, and the protection of sovereignty.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, Fall, 2003, pp. 27-66
Description
Studies the interaction of Indigenous peoples, nation states and national parks. The article also discusses how new management models allow Indigenous influenced park policy.
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 45, no. 3, Autumn, 2003, pp. 437-518
Description
Discusses the cultural and historical background of Pueblo Indians and U.S. relations, the reasons for the trip to Washington, and key aspects of Pueblo identity and ethnicity.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 420-428
Description
Author examines the criticism faced by university faculty in the United States who choose to vocalize any criticisms of the war on terrorism initiated by the Bush administration following the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
He gives an account of the Sioux participation in the War of 1812 on the side of the British, and the Sioux interpretation of the reward promised them by the British Crown; tells the history and whereabouts of the King George III medals given to the Sioux for their loyalty to the British Crown during the War of 1812; tells the story of two Sioux chiefs who were kidnapped in Manitoba and returned to the United States, presumably for their part in the 1862 Sioux uprising (Minnesota Massacre); tells of the dispersal of the Sioux in their flight from the U.S.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter, 1977-1978, pp. 299-320
Description
An examination of Utah's experimental reservation-farm system which had the dual goals of confining the Ute population to a prescribed location and relieving settlers of any obligation to supply food.
The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. Pt. 5
[2003 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Thomas King
Description
In speech, noted author uses a coyote story as a springboard for a discussion on European-Aboriginal relations throughout the history of Canada and United States. To listen to this audio, scroll down to Part 5.
Duration: 54:22.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 1977, pp. 19-22
Description
Looks at the convoluted logic used by New England Puritans to justify their treatment of the Indigenous people and similar threads that ran through American governments' developing policies.