Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Development and Customary Law, 2010, pp. 60-63
Description
Discusses and summarizes new movement in Indigenous communities that presents as an alternative to the global crisis.
To access this article, scroll down to page 60.
Researched from Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1881-1933. Concluded that there were five general motives: gambling, amusement, ceremonial observance, physical powers, and development of moral attributes, and that gambling was the most important.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the Pequot activist and writer's attempts to subvert the myth of the "Vanishing American", and his unique position as an Indian intellectual in the early 1800s.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 183-186
Description
Book reviews of:
Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature by Laura L. Mielke
The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 by Kate Flint All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression by Arnold Krupat.
Scroll down to page 183 to see reviews.
Looks at the negotiation for sacred lands in South Dakota and Arizona as an example of the relationship between Native populations and the American government.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 25, no. 1, 2010, pp. 21-49
Description
Looks at various socially and culturally constructed categories of discrimination and demonstrates the need for courts to employ multidimensionality theory in cases of complex oppression.
Identifies importance of goals related to infrastructure, recreation, information and education, and social supports.
Part of a larger project "The Cultural and Visual Context of Healthy Body Weight and Body Image Among Aboriginal Women in the Battlefords Tribal Council Region".
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 89, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 541-580
Description
Looks at the conflict of city planning with settler claims to Indian reserves in Vancouver, and discusses the municipal governments decisions regarding land-use planning, land claims, and their attempts to acquire and control the Kitsilano and Musqueam reserves.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 359-369
Description
Article investigates the media representation and the court’s treatment of Indigenous—specifically Apache--people, accused of murder in Arizona during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 193-207
Description
Discusses a play centered around an orphaned First Nations girl, Forever, who runs away from residential school and finds shelter in an abandoned boat.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 8, October 1974, p. 41
Description
Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College introduces a four year course designed to create music awareness and appreciation using Aboriginal words and ideas.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 2, February 2008, p. 3
Description
Looks at the economic benefits and social development opportunities that the settlement agreement will bring to the Muskoday First Nation.
Article located by scrolling to page 3.
Found that the Crown breached its pre-surrender fiduciary obligations to the Muskowekwan First Nation regarding both surrenders. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 30, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 505-532
Description
Looks at the linguistic precursor to biological essentialism, evidence of white philologists’ reliance on Native tutors and discusses why the federal government began moving toward assimilation.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 2010, pp. 1-27
Description
Discusses how cultural workforce perspectives based on kinship, disadvantage Aboriginal residents in the non-Indigenous workforce which is based on employment as identity.
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marian L. Escalanti
Description
Presents a poem highlighting the author's AILDI involvement.
Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.