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The Mystery Man of Sand Creek: George Laird Shoup

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joy Masoff
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 2, Spring, May 04, 2019, pp. 179-209
Description
The author works to recontextualize the life of Colonel George Laird Shoup illustrating his role and responsibility in the Sand Creek Massacre (November 29, 1864), an event which led to the deaths of 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people.
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National Aboriginal Document Database

Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
Six Nations Geo Systems
Description
Contains links to original documents for land claims, statutes and acts (chiefly Indian Act and amendments), treaties and court decisions.
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Native American Women's History: Tribes, Leadership, and Colonialism

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Journal of Women's History, vol. 17, no. 4, 2005, pp. 124-133
Description
Book reviews of: The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900 edited by R. David Edmunds, Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism by Devon Abbot Mihesuah, Sifters: Native American Women's Lives edited by Theda Perdue, Esther Ross: Stillaguamish Champion by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes by Susan Sleeper-Smith.
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Native Americans and American Identities in the Early Republic

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Timothy Sweet
American Literary History, vol. 13, no. 3, Fall, 2001, pp. 592-602
Description
Book reviews of 4 books: Native Americans and the Early Republic edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, Peter J. Albert. The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects by Renée Bergland. The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Susan Scheckel. Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876 by Eric Wertheimer.
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Native Communities Must Heal From Within

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, November 1, 2002, p. A15
Description
Explains that colonialism, paternalism, and racism are some factors responsible for the high rate of Aboriginals in the penal system.
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Nineteenth Century Women and Reform: The Women's National Indian Association

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Valerie Sherer Mathes
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter, 1990, pp. 1-18
Description
Article examines the role that was played in the formation of Indian Policy in the United States by the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA). Describes the influence of evangelical Christianity, the Protestant ethic, and Victorian ideals of womanhood in this organization.
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North American Indigenous Women and Cultural Domination

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beatrice Medicine
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 121-130
Description
While others celebrate the 'discovery' of the New World, the 1.5 million Aboriginal peoples in the United States will celebrate their survival against centuries of genocide, legal restrictions on religion and language and other oppressive measures.
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North-West Territories: Proclamation

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
William MacDougall [McDougall]
Description
McDougall had been sent to the Red River to assume the office of Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories before the actual transfer of power from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Canadian government had taken place. He was turned back by the Métis and issued this "proclamation" from Pembina, North Dakota.
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Northern Dene Bibliography

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ed Labenski
Description
Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.
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"Now ... Didn't Our People Laugh?" Female Misbehavior and Algonquian Culture in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restauration

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Arnold
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1-28
Description
Argues that a closer look at humour, in the work of Rowlandson, provides readers with a greater understanding of the Algonquian side of early cross-cultural relations and reveals the ways in which cultural discomfort and disharmony are not rare, but rather integral concepts for early American identity.
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On The Politics of Indigeneity: North American and Pacific Histories

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Doug Kiel
Journal of Social History, vol. 44, no. 1, Fall, 2010, pp. 239-245
Description
Book reviews of: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom by Tiya Miles. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century North-west Coast by Paige Raibmon. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui.
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Other Picture Boards in Van Diemen’s Land: The Recovery of Lost Illustrations Of Frontier Violence and Relationships

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas Dean Brodie
Kristyn Harman
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 3-21
Description
Article examines textual descriptions from the letters and journals of Australian settlers of painted story boards depicting colonially prescribed behaviors and threatened consequences for not conforming. The journals and letters also describe how these picture boards were installed in various wilderness locations where known to be frequented by Indigenous peoples.
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Otiyaner: The "Women's Path" Through Colonialism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kahente Horn-Miller
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 57-68
Description
Comments on the inaccurate portrayal of Haudenosaunee women in historical writing.
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An Overview of Aboriginal History in Canada

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples and Archives
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Library and Archives Canada
Description
Examines the areas of trade relations and alliances, imperial policies, treaties, and the post-confederation era.
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Owen Glendower, Hotspur, and Canadian Indian Policy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Ethnohistory, vol. 37, no. 4, Fall, 1990, pp. 386-415
Description
Discusses cultural suppression and resistance recorded through oral history and historical documentation.
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Palm Island: Through a Long Lens

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jonathan Richards
Aboriginal History, vol. 34, 2010, pp. 267-275
Description
Book review of: Palm Island by Joanna Watson. Review located by scrolling to page 267.
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The Past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arif Dirlik
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 1-31
Description
Discussion about nations being imagined, traditions invented and claims to the contrary being dismissed. The article argues that to denial authenticity to cultural claims, beyond localized constructions, is a denial of the past.
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