United States Government

Author examines the laws and enforcement practices of the United States in relation to Indigenous Nations that choose to legalize medical, recreational, or agricultural cannabis. Article also considers the economic consequences of the legislation and its enforcement.

Reviews the events surrounding the relocation of the tribe from Kansas to Oklahoma during the 1860s and 1870s.

Argues that resistance occurred for several reasons including that the draft infringed on American Indians' status as non-Citizens, who could not be required to register for service and endangered federal protections of tribal sovereignty resulting in the acceleration toward assimilation, which had been attempted through the allotment process and the liquidation of tribal lands.

Comments on the importance of political institutions for economic development.

Authors conduct a comparative analysis of the campaigns for federal recognition of two different Aboriginal peoples in the eastern United States.

[American Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2005.

Author details the process of engaging local nations and communities in the planning and development of a United States National monument.

Author discusses the issues associated with American Indian higher education including funding and accreditation requirements.

An analysis of the similarity of ideologies between capitalism and communism for Indigenous communities.

Comments on topics relating to the contemporary life of Indigenous people of America. Bachelor's Thesis towards undergraduate degree in [English Language and Literature]--University of West Bohemia, 2013.

Looks at the historical relationship, from a small town perspective, between people on the Nez Perce reservation and the United States, be it government or local level interactions.

Argues that decisions of the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) and the courts have not extinguished every acre of original, traditional or recognized titled lands.

Looks at why the Indigenous vote was seen as either insignificant or not worth pursuing in spite of some campaigns being won or lost by the American Aboriginal vote.

Author discusses their political concerns and the realities of attending the celebrations of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian as a member of the Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) independence movement.

Looks at the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care Recommendations and efforts to address problems relating to children.

An examination of the complexity of overlapping criminal jurisdictions between tribal, municipal, state, and federal officials that could impede the solving of murdered and missing Indigenous females. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 45.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2002.

Explores the effects that U.S. colonialism has had on Natives and their traditions.

Article considers and compares the two different perspectives on the Hopi-Navajo Land Dispute that are contained in Children of Sacred Ground by Catherine Feher-Elston and Cry, Sacred Ground by Anita Parlowe.

Examines the controversy of the 1862 Dakota Conflict in Minnesota, followed by the execution of 38 Sioux men, and questions whether military tribunals can balance civil liberties and state necessities.

Comments on the opportunities for Native American culture to take its rightful place in the National park system.

Describes a community-based, participatory research project in which six urban American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) health organizations in northern California partnered to adapt the Canadian-developed Cultural Connectedness Scale for use in California. Reviews the process and provides information for localized adaptations.

Looks at the court transcripts of the White Earth Chippewa Reservation land allotment fraud cases. Anthropological Professors Albert Jenks and Ales Hrdlicka provided testimony regarding "mixed blooded" and "full Indians" status based on physical characteristics.

The author shares their personal experience of the 2002 walk to commemorate the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota peoples forcibly removed from their lands to Fort Snelling including information about their emotional and intellectual responses during the walk, and their sense that the memorial walk allowed participants to experience and grieve the events of 1862.

Book review of: A Dangerous Idea by Peter Metcalfe and Kathy Kolkhorst Ruddy.

Response to accusations of biases in one researchers annotated bibliography, which was made up of approximately 1,325 items, regarding the Iroquois’ role in the development of democracy.

Discusses the lack of existing government documentation, regarding federal Indian law, that would provide the knowledge necessary for Native Americans to negotiate on an equal level.

Outlines the history of Minnesota's jurisdictional arrangements with the Anishinabe Ojibwe of White Earth and five other reservations of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and how the state began asserting its sovereignty over those reservations. Scroll down to access article.

Overview of residential boarding school history as an instrument of genocide and the lack of governmental response to this system.

Book review of: The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder, and Other True Stories From the Nebraska-Pine Ridge by Stew Magnuson. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 81.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts Boston, 2011.

Discusses the ongoing debate as to whether the Iroquois Confederacy helped shape the United States and the ideals of democratic government.

Commentary on the assertions that the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other Native American confederacies helped shape ideas of democracy the early U.S. and Europe.

One of first rights documents lists areas of concern and possible solutions.

Investigates U.S. Federal Government Indian strategy of removing tribal resources, particularly water, from Native control.

Book review of: Defending Whose Country? by Amy Lonetree. Review located by scrolling to page 156.

Discusses decision by the Supreme Court of Vermont; reviews claim and the basic rules of extinguishment and asks if the Supreme Court misanalyzed the historical record.

Book review of: Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe's Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries by Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg.

Book review of: Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer. All book reviews on one pdf. To access review, scroll down to appropriate page [181].

Sums up Anishinaabe mix blood Dennis Banks' trial in regards to his participation at the occupation at Wounded Knee in 1973.

Discusses the meaning of the terms "sovereignty" and "self-determination", and the history of government/aboriginal interactions.

Describes the shrinking land mass, due to encroaching civilization, of the White Earth reservation.

Looks at the freight moved by Native American entrepreneurs for government contractors, federal agencies, traders, the military and for private individuals.