Reveals a presidential administration that was determined to implement its own plan regardless of opposition voicing to humanitarian concerns or logical arguments.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 151-188
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Gives a history of the occupation of Alcatraz Island, with a vacant federal penitentiary, including how Native Americans claimed title to the island under the doctrine of “right of discovery”.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 27-50
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Historical review of the Iroquois and the continuing dispute over inherent sovereign rights from the signing, in 1784, up to the appeal at the United Nations in 1945.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 1-36
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Discusses recent tribal, state, and congressional legislative efforts to identify and recognize the service of Native Americans who served in the Armed Forces during a foreign conflict and who transmitted secret coded messages for tactical military operations during World War I and World War II, using native tribal language.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 4, Fall, 2018, pp. 427-453
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Using the United Nations’ 1948 definition of genocide and the framework of settler colonialism as lenses, author examines the 1779 efforts of George Washington and the other military men he enlisted (Generals John Sullivan, James Clinton, Horatio Gates; Colonels Daniel Brodhead and Goose van Schaick) to “annihilate the Haudenosaunee” in order to clear lands for settler occupation.
Kansas History, vol. 24, no. 2, Summer, 2001, pp. 85-97
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Discusses the military's policies with respect to Native American enlistees, as well as motivations for participating in the war effort and experiences during training and active service.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 77-82
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Recounts the forced relocation of Navajo tribes in the 1860s and the atrocities and injustices that were committed against them by the U.S. government.
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 223, Minority Peoples in a Nation at War, September 1942, pp. 29-35
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Written by the Commissioner of the U.S. department of Indian Affairs during World War II, article discusses: Native Americans response to and participation (military and non-military) in the war effort, reactions to the Selective Service Act and the problems that would be encountered post-war.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 343-349
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Author considers different historical perspectives on the civilized vs. savage narratives that are pervasive in the frontier mythology of the United States complicating both the portrayal of Indigenous peoples and the colonial state’s relationship with them.
Outlines Abraham Lincoln's policy priorities, his interpersonal relations with Indians during his administration, the direct impact on Indians of the signing of the Homestead Act in May 1862, the Santee Sioux uprising in Minnesota, the removal and confinement of Navajos and Mescaleros on a reservation in New Mexico Territory, the Sand Creek Massacre in southeastern Colorado, and his relationship with the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico Territory.
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 64-68
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Comments on the responsibilities of the United States government towards Native Americans.
Originally published in North American Review, November 1886.
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 40-44
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Contends that a government that treats all people equally would be beneficial to Native Americans.
Originally published in The North American Review, March, 1879.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 93-102
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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.
Series of 24 audio files that the discuss individual chapters in the book of the same name adapted by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza from the adult version written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
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.
Explores opera which looks at the contradictory forces of social alienation and cultural assimilation that aboriginals faced during the early twentieth century.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 43-86
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Looks at the circumstances which led to the Koontenai nation declaring war on the United States government in 1974, The tribe was federally recognized but had been given no land base nor received any monetary compensation.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 38-43
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Reports on the history of nuclear and missile testing in the Marshall Islands and their impact on the residents.
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Looks at coverage in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times of happenings in North and South Dakota for one month prior to and two weeks after the leader was shot and killed.
Using the Cree refugee experience in the US following the 1885 resistance to discuss Canada's history of using the term refugee to distance themselves from political and legal responsibility to refugee conditions.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 289-292
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The author, a settler witness to the Manipi Hena Owasin Wicunkiksuyapi (the 2002 walk to commemorate the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota peoples forcibly removed from their lands to Fort Snelling) discusses suggestions for a living monument in memory of the events.