American Indian Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter, 1975-1976, pp. 347-361
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An examination of the negotiations to remove the Western Cherokee from their homeland in Arkansas through the 1828 Treaty of Washington to the area known as Lovely's Purchase. Lovely's Purchase was named after William Lovely who secured the land from the Osages for the Cherokee people to use as a hunting ground.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism, 2019, pp. 1-40
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A discussion of Indigenous feminist politics and the relationship between Indigenous women and water using the Flint water crisis and NoDAPL action at Standing Rock to illustrate.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 1979, pp. 115-134
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An examination into the introduction of land allotments into Indian Territory and the efforts of Cherokee lobbyists to prevent its implementation in the late nineteenth century.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1997, pp. 131-154
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Discusses the impact of various legislation including the Jay Treaty of 1794, which assured border crossing rights, the 1891 Immigration Act deeming them neither USA nor Canadian citizens, and the Alien Registration Act of 1940 that classified First Nations as aliens.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 39-48
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Author reflects on the international legal standards regarding the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty of Black Hills between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.
Argues that while, on the surface Canada may seem to have respected the right to self-government, in practical terms it has done little and a landmark decision is needed to speed the process.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 75-96
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Reviews and evaluates documentary and fictional Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s, in relation to how the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States is portrayed.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, 1983, pp. 3-28
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Evaluates the effects of several reform movements that challenged Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) domination over Native American reservation communities in the 1970's.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1-34
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An exploration of Seneca's battle to their assert sovereignty over their lands in the face of challenges, historically by progressive conservatism and now by modern environmentalism.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 131-153
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Provides background and potential resolution to struggles of the Anishinaabe of Wisconsin which emerged in 1910-1953 and have continued over rights and control their lands and resources.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 27-52
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Examines the United States government's case against American Indian Movement activist, Leonard Peltier and the FBIs unofficial agenda taken against AIMs political activism.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 1-24
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Author describes some negotiation and conflict that was, for the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples, a part of the transition from traditional hereditary leadership and governance systems to Western, elected systems of governance.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, Spring, 2021, pp. [121]-151
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An examination of opposition to the Nixon administration's creation of councils as a means to decentralize government support. Most tribal governments and national organizations resisted the use of these councils because they were implemented without consultation, the possibility that states would have control over decision-making and fears about termination of tribal status.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 325-345
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Looks at the creation of the US Acknowledgement and Research Branch to investigate California Indigenous tribes seeking federal recognition. Also includes a list of California tribes seeking federal recognition during the 1980s.
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 200-214
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Focuses on Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors' fight against construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, United States v. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska’s defense of Blackbird Bend.