United States Government

Examines the U.S. imperial project regarding Native Americans in the late 1870s and early 1880s during the career of Congressman Thaddeus Pound.

Examines American's secret weapon, Navajo Code Talkers, and how they helped win the Pacific War.

Guide to accompany DVD of the same name.

Contends although Mathew's work Wah'kon-tah: the Osage and the White Man's Road was nonfiction, there are still literary aspects to it. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Examines environmental journalism strategies of demonizing, orientalizing, essentializing and exaggerating Indigenous peoples as an argumentative strategy to influence readers in the struggle against policies and proposed rule changes that supports Indigenous cultural practices. Scroll down to access article.

Examines the historical repression experienced by Native Americans who used peyote and their responses to it.

Discusses the assumptions made by the Supreme Court in the United States, when reaching its decisions regarding the powers of Tribal courts, and the views of Native Americans on reservations about those assumptions.

Discusses the implications of the decision by the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, under its Urgent Action Procedure, which directs the United States to cease its violation of Shoshone land rights.

Author discusses his book, Kill the Indian, Save the Man". Duration: 55:57.

Contends that legislative action is the next step for both Australia and the United States. Legislation will help both countries to recognize and acknowledge historical atrocities through compensation and ensuring future transgressions do not occur.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2008.

Book review of: A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook From Fort Marion by Phillip Earenfight, Janet Catherine Berlo, Brad D. Lookinghill and George Miles.

Examines western heroes and how they have been subject to revisionism.

Political Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Montreal, 2016.

Discusses the program that involved hard labour and comments on the students that made the most out of the situation.

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.

Discusses the history, programs, goals and desires concerning Oneida language and culture pertaining to three communities in New York State, Ontario and Wisconsin.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2009.

Discusses how U.S. government removal and relocation policies disrupted the vital relationship to land.

Describes additional digitized access to nine treaties not included in the main internet site. Provides research examples for this document set and makes comparison to the Kappler collation.

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.

Explores the activist's views on tribal identity, economic development, and self-governance as expressed in her plans for a industrialized village. Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 117.

Looks at the assimilation practices carried out during the first twenty years of government control of Alaska Natives' education and the devastating changes caused to Inupiat communities.

Outlines a scientific history of uranium, and looks at the traditional Navajo’s belief system regarding uranium and milling as a disruption in the balance of earth and sky. Scroll down to access article.

Looks at the history of service by students, alumni and faculty.

Comments on creation of sense of community enabling occupiers to learn about their cultural backgrounds.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1999.

Looks at situation in the United States, Australia and New Zealand in terms of Indigenous peoples' status and relationship to the State and challenges and opportunities associated with social programs.

Book review of: Lessons From an Indian Day School by Adrea Lawrence. Review located by scrolling to page 148.

Examines one of the first sites funded under the Therapeutic Residential Model Initiative in 2001-2002.

Looks at an intertribal residential school which enrolled approximately 200 students in grades 5-8 from tribes in the northern Midwest.

Investigates the procurement and purchase of land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains by the United States government in the early 1800s.

Examines the inaccuracies of Native American history by some white historians and the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision to enact the doctrine of discovery theory in 1831.

Looks at the politics behind the U. S. government's policies to address the 1832 smallpox epidemic that affected Native Americans.

According to the author, the story of Carl Albert and the Choctaws illustrates how the forces of localism and liberalism acted to delay a program of tribal self-determination.

Looks at the impact the wall has on the Nde' Apache and the basis for the Truth & Memory Commission. Briefly discusses the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Australian Aboriginal Claims for redress.

Uses the cases Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832) to demonstrate how political issues, such state's rights, influenced judicial decisions.

Contains the poems: "NAMes", "NAMes II" (about discrimination and forced relocation), and "Water Spider's Gift".

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.

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.

Examines the controversy surrounding the remarks made by Ward Churchill after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.

A case study about the difficult jurisdictional issues faced between tribal governments and local, state, and federal levels of governments in the United States.

Compares the situation in Australia, Canada and the United States, as well the differing approaches to the high rate of Aboriginal incarceration and recidivism.