United States Government

Examines the problems involved in resolving the Black Hills land claim between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.

Discusses the experiences of the codetalkers in the broader context of government-Navajo relations, including military opposition, motivations to serve, attitudes toward indigenous knowledge, and post-war discrimination.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1949.

Author examines the criticism faced by university faculty in the United States who choose to vocalize any criticisms of the war on terrorism initiated by the Bush administration following the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Study analyzes 24 years of US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data (1991-2015) from eight states to examine the degree to which Indigenous people are overrepresented in the lower paying, less desirable, non-managerial, public sector positions in local and state government bureaucracies and underrepresented in the more desirable, better paying, managerial positions.

Discusses the president's political motivations for allowing the mass execution of prisoners of war who had not been given a proper trial.

Description, by the author, on his experiences of attending university, being the first member in a family to attend college, and reflections regarding the three months he participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz.

Compares regulatory structures, Indigenous representation in regulatory agencies and proceedings, subsidies for operations, infrastructure funding, access to support structures, training and hiring Indigenous residents, consultation and other policies in the two countries.

Examines Congressional debate from the viewpoint of Native American rights. Originally published in The North American Review, Winter, 1830.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Tennessee, 1999.

Investigates the Indian Removal Act of 1830, in the United States, that allowed the forcible removal of thousands of people from their homelands in the American Southeast to lands west of the Mississippi River.

Chapter thirteen in book: Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? edited by Devon A. Mihesuah.

Website has links to repatriation reports, initiatives, acts and legislation and contact information.

Response of the author to “Iroquois Influence: A Response to Bruce Johansen’s ‘Notes from the “Culture Wars”’ in American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 24, No. 2 at page 111 to 116. See also "Data or Dogma? A Reply to Robert L. Berner” in American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol 24, No. 2, at pages 117 to 119.

Highlights the challenges for Navajo voting rights in Arizona throughout the twentieth century.

Examines the linkages of issues rooted in the persistence of Native American poverty on reserves.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2014.

Comments on attorneys and judges, outside of the tribal courts, who have a lack of knowledge or understanding of Indian culture.

Comments on the length of time it took for the Band to be re-recognized as a sovereign nation.

Comments about the on going process of tribal government development in the Navajo Nation.

Discusses the importance of incorporating relevant traditional values in contemporary governance and options for revising the Navajo government.

Book review of: Killing the White Man's Indian by Fergus M. Bordewich.

Book review of: Red Pedagogy by Sandy Grande.

Book reviews of: Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 by Victoria Smith Caring and Curing: A History of the Indian Health Service by James P. Rife and Alan J. Dellapenna Conversations with Sherman Alexie edited by Nancy Peterson Documents of Native American Political Development, 1500s to 1933 edited by David E. Wilkins Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers by Dorothy Harley Eber Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight by Shannon D. Smith Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750 by William B.

Book review of: Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson. Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Traditions by Alexander Posey. Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast by Michelene E. Pesantubbee. A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War 1680–1730 by Steven J.

Book reviews of: A Study of Pueblo Architecture in Tusayan and Cibola by Victor Mindeleff. The Faithful Hunter: Abnaki Stories by Joseph Bruchac. Navajo Coyote Tales by William Morgan. Secrets From the Center of the World by Joy Harjo and Stephen Strom. Kickapoo Vocabulary by Paul H. Voorhis. An Ojibwe Text Anthology edited by John D. Nichols. "Statement Made by the Indians": A Bilingual Petition of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, 1864 edited by John D. Nichols. Pisiskiwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik/Talking Animals told by L. Beardy.

Book reviews of: Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast edited by Peter Wood. Navajo Textiles: The William Randolph Hearst Collection by Nancy J. Blomberg. Utmost Good Faith: Patterns of Apache-Mexican Hostilities in Northern Chihuahua Border Warfare, 1821-1848 by William B. Griffen. The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W.

Book reviews on: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles. Phoenix Indian School by Robert Trennert. The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America by Kenneth Lincoln with Al Logan Slagle. The Indians of Texas: An Annotated Research Bibliography by Michael L. Tate. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by John C. Fremont. Among the Sioux of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience as an Indian Agent, 1869-70 by D. C. Poole. Sovereignty and Symbol: Indian-White Conflict at Ganeinkeh by Gail H.

Book reviews of: American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations edited by Eric D. Lemont. American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic edited by Ernest Stromberg. Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian’s Quest for Justice by Lawney L. Reyes. Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-Astubby Mystery by D. L. Birchfield. The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket edited by Granville Ganter. Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border by James W.

Book reviews of: The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert J. Conley. Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880 by Thomas D. Hall. Collections Arctiques by Yvon Csonka. New Directions in American Indian History edited by Colin G. Calloway. Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy by Vynola Beaver Newkumet, Howard L. Meredith. Sous le signe de l'ours.

Focuses on engagement practices in law that create more understanding and accomodate diversity, rather than supporting the status-quo.

A comparison between Democratic and Republican party platforms from 1948 to 2000 in regards to Native American issues and concerns.

Comments on the FBI's investigation of AIM from 1971 to 1976.

Examines the United States government's case against American Indian Movement activist, Leonard Peltier and the FBIs unofficial agenda taken against AIMs political activism.

Author explores the response from French-Canadian peoples living in the United States in the mid-1870s to the execution of Louis Riel; argues that the reaction can help to understand religious and ethnic transnationalism, and resistance to social and political forces in the Canada and the U.S. in the late nineteenth century.

Discusses the impact of legislation introduced in the 1960s and 1970s in regards to policies affecting Native Americans.

Argues that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act has produced, in the case of the Kodiak Island native leaders, a transition to capitalism.

Book review of: Rivers of Sand by Christopher D. Haveman.

He gives an account of the Sioux participation in the War of 1812 on the side of the British, and the Sioux interpretation of the reward promised them by the British Crown; tells the history and whereabouts of the King George III medals given to the Sioux for their loyalty to the British Crown during the War of 1812; tells the story of two Sioux chiefs who were kidnapped in Manitoba and returned to the United States, presumably for their part in the 1862 Sioux uprising (Minnesota Massacre); tells of the dispersal of the Sioux in their flight from the U.S.

Accuses Robert L. Berner of not having actually read Exemplar of Liberty which discusses the Iroquis influence on the early American government.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 1985.