Murdoch Charles Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Murdoch Charles
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Murdoch Charles is a trapper and prospector from Stanley Mission. He tells a few details of the mining operation at Nistowiak Falls and from his experience in the bush, discusses Brady's disappearance and what a bushman would do if he was lost.
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Murphy Diary

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
George B. Murphy
Description
Extracts from the diary of George B. Murphy, of Qu'Appelle, transport officer of the Battleford Column, Second Division of the North West Field Force, sent out to suppress the 1885 resistance. Entries from March 17 - July 16, 1885. Entries mostly include communications regarding troop movements.
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My Father's Lakota Name

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Geraldine Goes in Center
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 1, Sovereignty in Indian Country, Fall, 2004, p. 33
Description
Brief discussion of the meaning behind the name "Dismounts Four Times".
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My Name is Kahentiiosta

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alanis Obomsawin
Description
Looks at the arrest and detention of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman, during the 1990 Oka Crisis. Duration: 29:50.
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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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The Mystery of the Bell

Alternate Title
The Mystery of the Bell: Teacher Resource Guide
Doc Zone
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mark Starowicz
Wayne Chong
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Description

Documentary looks into the disappearance and re-appearance of the 'The Bell of Batoche' which was proported to have been seized by soldiers during the North-West Resistance. Duration: 45:09.

Related Material: Teacher Resource Guide.

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NAGPRA as a Paradigm: The Historical Context and Meaning of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 2011

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomaira Babbit
Description
A brief history of Native American Indian and United States relations; examines the similarities between the historical experiences of Native Americans and Palestinians; and discusses the movement to recover the objects and remains of their ancestors.
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The Name of War

Book Reviews
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 82, no. 1, March 2001, p. 152
Description
Book review of: The Name of War: King Phillip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore.
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Names of Plain Indians Held at Fort Marion

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Richard Henry Pratt
Description
Lists Native Americans captured as a result of the Red River War, sent to the Fort, and subsequently to Pratt's Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Descriptions from Battlefield and Classroom by Richard Henry Pratt.
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Names of the Condemned Dakota Men

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 175-183
Description
Article lists the names of Dakota men and the sentences imposed on them by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”
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Nametoo: Evidence That He/She Is/Was Present

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Celeste Pedri-Spade
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 73-100
Description
Examines the role and use of Indigenous photography in relationship to the Anishinabe way of being, seeing, listening and hearing.
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Nancy Ward: American Patriot or Cherokee Nationalist?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelene E. Pesantubbee
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 2014, pp. 177-206
Description
Discusses actions of an elder woman who appeared to support American settlers while protecting the interests of her Cherokee people to prevent bloodshed.
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Nanyehi: War and Peace in Cherokee History

Alternate Title
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Stanley Rice
Description
Comments on one of the most famous women in Cherokee history who distinguished herself as a war hero. Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013. Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison: Who Was Taken by the Indians, in the Year 1755 ... : Containing an Account of the Murder of Her Father and His Family; Her Sufferings; Her Marriage to Two Indians ... Carefully Taken From Her Own Words, Nov. 29th, 1823 ...

E-Books
Author/Creator
James E. Seaver
Description
"Taken by the Indians, in the Year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. Containing an Account of the Murder of Her Father and His Family; Her Sufferings; Her Marriage to Two Indians; Her Troubles with her Children ... French and Indian Wars; the Life of her last Husband, &c.; and many Historical Facts Never before Published. Carefully Taken From Her Own Words, Nov. 29th, 1823." ...
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National Forgetting and Remembering in the Poetry of Robert Frost

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeff Westover
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 46, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 213-244
Description
Analyzes the collective, selective memory of the United States as reflected in the poetic works by Frost about Native Americans.
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National Sorry Day Launch at La Perouse

Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 1998, p. 31
Description
Describes the inaugural National Sorry Day held in a suburban Sydney, Australia community. This event was held one year after the Bringing Them Home inquiry chronicled the Stolen Generation of child removed from Aboriginal families.
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The National Survey of Indian Vietnam Veterans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tom Holm
American Indian and Alaska Native Health Research, vol. 6, no. 1, 1994, pp. 18-28
Description
Survey conducted by the Counseling Service of the US. Dept. of Veteran Affairs involved sample of 170 respondents. Questions were asked about age, residence, reasons for entering service, branch served in, mental health issues, utilization of counseling, etc.
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Native American Documents Project

Alternate Title
California State University, San Marcos: Native American Documents Project
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
California State University
San Marcos
Description
Presents a site that includes information on the Rogue River War and Siletz Reservation collection, published reports of the commissioner of Indian affairs, Allotment data, and California tribes.
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The Native American Entrepreneur and the Mohawk Civil War

Alternate Title
America Haus Munich, April 11-13, 2005, 26th American Indian Workshop
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sandra Busatta
Description
Discusses how the concept of sovereignty, with its accompanying refusal to recognize the international border between Canada and the United States, has led to the illegal activities of groups, such as the Warrior Society, on the St. Regis reservation and the Kahnawake and Kanesatake reserves.
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Native American Historical Resources

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Brandon Burnette
Description
Resource page containing links to federal department documents, census data, Department of Education materials and tribes in Oklahoma.
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Native American History, Ethnohistory, and Context

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Wunder
Ethnohistory, vol. 54, no. 4, Between Empires: Indians in the American West During the Age of Empire, Fall, 2007, pp. 591-604
Description
Examines the following important works effecting Native American history scholarship: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Bron, Ethnohistory: Problems and Prospects by Bruce Trigger and Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigneous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
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