American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 25-32
Description
Argues that the Alcatraz event was mainly a civil rights movement protest against the very oppressive conditions faced by Native Americans, somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1957 was for the African-American population.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 131-134
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Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 59-74
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Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issues on Reservation Economies, 1998, pp. 31-78
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Looks at the coercesion of the Navajo, by the United States government, through military domination, the threat of starvation, and finally relocation along the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 213-232
Description
Expresses hopes that the Alcatraz occupation created a consciousness that would reach into the lives of Native American youth and perhaps white Americans.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 47-64
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Discusses the novel's theme of a political revolution which will ultimately result in the disintegration of European power over Aboriginal peoples.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 135-149
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Describes how there is sunshine everywhere, pride, perseverance, and a reawakening of an ancient culture which, the author contends, all came about due to the occupation of Alcatraz Island.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 67-93
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Focuses on the Kumivit, or Gabrielino, Indians and documents the resistance and responses of women to the new colonial order. The time period covered for this topic includes Toypurina’s revolt and Bartolomea’s bitter recollections of the destruction of her culture.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 71-86
Description
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.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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J. R. Miller
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing a range of historical and contemporary events.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 93-102
Description
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 Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 75-89
Description
Critical examination to investigate if Wingina, a Roanoke leader, organized a plot to attack the settlement, located on Roanoke Island, with the assistance of Algonquian bands.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 134-156
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Author explores the relationships, communities, and peoples that grew out of the interactions between Black or African American communities and Indigenous communities in the southern United States; highlights cultural hybridity and colonial resistance.
California Law Review, vol. 82, no. 4, July 1994, pp. 981-1049
Description
Describes how the five Confederated Tribes of the Iroquois attempted intercultural communication and encounters between the early sixteenth through late eighteenth centuries with Europeans.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 1998, p. 31
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Describes the inaugural National Sorry Day held in a suburban Sydney, Australia community. This event was held one year after the Bringing Them Home inquiry chronicled the Stolen Generation of child removed from Aboriginal families.
American Indian and Alaska Native Health Research, vol. 6, no. 1, 1994, pp. 18-28
Description
Survey conducted by the Counseling Service of the US. Dept. of Veteran Affairs involved sample of 170 respondents. Questions were asked about age, residence, reasons for entering service, branch served in, mental health issues, utilization of counseling, etc.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 123-130
Description
Explains the significance of Alcatraz; including the fact that it was temporarily beyond the jurisdiction of authorities, it liberated the psyche of Aboriginal peoples, and it was an experiment in self-determination.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 65-83
Description
Explores how the writer replaces the European linear thinking about time and replaces it with the indigenous viewpoint of circularity.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 111-122
Description
Description, by the author, on his experiences of attending university, being the first member in a family to attend college, and reflections regarding the three months he participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz.