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American Cold War Policies and the Enewetakese: Community Displacement, Environmental Degradation, and Indigenous Resistance in the Marshall Islands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martha Smith-Norris
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 22, no. 2, New Series, 2011, pp. 195-236
Case study focuses on the consequences of the weapon tests conducted by the United States in Micronesia. Residents were forced to relocate for more than 30 years, received little assistance to re-establish themselves in the new location and no compensation until they took legal action.
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The American Indian in the Great War: Real and Imagined [Part One, Chapter Two]

Alternate Title
Chapter II: American Indian Affairs Before the Great War
Part I: The Road to WWI
The Road to War: American Indian Affairs
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Diane Camurat
Master's Thesis submitted in 1993 to the Institut Charles V of the University of Paris VII. Content includes: Grant's Peace Policy and Its Developments, 1869-1879; The "Social Gospel", 1879-1897; Allotment and Resistance; A "Progressive Era" for the American Indians, 1897-1917; and Education and Health.
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American Indian Landowners, Leasemen, and Bureaucrats Property, Paper, and the Poli- Technics of Dispossession in Southwestern Oklahoma

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tony N. VanWinkle
Jack R. Friedman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 4, Fall, 2018, pp. 508-533
Article uses archival and ethnographic evidence to examine land tenure within a southwestern Oklahoma county; examines how the system created to protect the rights of Indigenous landowners actually functions to redirect access to the land, to the economic benefit of non-Indigenous ranchers and farmers.
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American Indian Policy in the Old Northwest, 1783-1812

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Horsman
The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, 3rd Series, January 1961, pp. 35-53
Outlines methods used by U.S. government to acquire lands between Ohio and the Mississippi from unwilling Native Americans.
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American Indian Studies Association Conference Keynote Address – Indigenous Activism: Our Resistance, Our Revitalization, Our Indigenous Native Studies: And Our Healing within Our Indigenous Context (or From Alcatraz 1969 to Standing Rock 2017. Or Perhaps—Truth Be Bold—Liars, Killers, Thieves Invade Sacred Stone Camp)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Simon J. Ortiz
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 106-114
Ortiz’s address to the AISA calls on Indigenous people to recognize the damage done to them by colonization and to find in that recognition the strength and will to participate in contemporary resistance to neocolonial projects rooted in consumer capitalist and extractive resource regimes.
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American Indian Studies Association Conference Presidential Address – Advocacy and Indigenous Resistance: The Ongoing Assault against Indigenous Sovereignty, Community, and Land

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elise Boxer
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 91-105
This presentation text examines different sites and incidents of neocolonial violence and Aboriginal activism as defiance in response; asserts the basis of Native Studies is “indigenousness and sovereignty” and examines the implications of these concepts for activism and resistance movements.
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American Indians, Indian Tribes, and State Government

E-Books
Author/Creator
Mary Davis
Jeffrey Diebel
Ben Johnson
Sean Williams
Tim Strom ... [et al.]

Guidebook created to give Minnesota legislators information on the legal relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state government.

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Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Tribal Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Rifkin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 170-207
Discusses Winnemucca’s 1883 book, Life among the Piutes, and her advocacy work on behalf of the Piutes; focuses on the rhetorical strategies and political positioning Winnemucca uses to represent her people and their interests to settler publics and government officials.
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Appendix One: Questions and Discussions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sharon H. Venne
Patricia Seed
Harold Cardinal
Frank Tough
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 79-97
Panel discussion between Sharon Venne, Patricia Seed, Harold Cardinal and Frank Tough.
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Applying Indigenous Peoples' Customary Law in Order to Protect Their Land Rights in Africa

Articles » General
Author/Creator
George Mukundi Wachira
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Development and Customary Law, 2010, pp. 6-15
Argues customary and traditional laws of communal stewardship over land as opposed to individual land tenure systems should be recognized and protected for future land development. To access this article, scroll down to page 6.
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[Appraising Cole Harris' Making Native Space]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Sarah Carter
Kate McPherson
James Murton
Cole Harris
Native Studies Review, vol. 16, no. 2, 2005, pp. 125-149
Book review of: Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia by Cole Harris. Comments by Cole about the review also included.
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Archives of Native Presence: Land Tenure Research on the Grand Ronde Reservation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ian Kretzler
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 45-70
Argues that tribal historic preservation methods provide insight for all cultural heritage managers. Uses the approach and findings of the Grand Ronde Land Tenure Project as an example of repurposing archival documents in the interests of the Indigenous peoples.
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Arctic-The North

Articles » General
File contains an article from the Globe and Mail involving the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories' claim on the western portion of the North West Territories.
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Are We Really Sorry? Some Reflections on Canadian Indigenous Policies in the Early Twenty-First Century

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
David T. McNab
Paul-Emile McNab
Aboriginal Policy Research, vol. 7

Looks at the First Nations Governance Act, the Ipperwash Inquiry and final report, Caledonia and specific claims policies, and the Kelowna Accord. Chapter from A History of Treaties and Policies edited by Jerry P. White, Erik Anderson, Jean-Pierre Morin, and Dan Beavon, which is vol. 7 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.

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Areas of Initiation in the Political Geography of Aboriginal Minorities - Stewart Raby. - Article. - [1974?].

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stewart Raby
Abstract: The territorial aspirations and achievements of Aboriginal minorities in the common-law jurisdictions of North America, Australia and New Zealand can be divided according to three varieties of political-legal situations; those in areas of initiation, enhancement and omission. In the first of these, to which attention is here confined, there has been no legally defined and protected land-base, and Aboriginal land claims are or have been the subject of recent litigation, negotiation and settlement.
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Arriving at Appropriate Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: A First Nation's Perspective

Alternate Title
IIFET 2000 Proceedings
[Microbehavior and Macroresults:Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute ofFisheries Economics and Trace
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David C. Natcher
Discusses a self-improving management system which is facilitating an assessment of forest management as it relates directly to Little Red River/Tall Cree culture and their continued land use needs.
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Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Resistance in the Age of Big Oil: Corwin Clairmont's Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katie Kane
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, Spring, 2021, pp. [152]-195
An analysis of the art installation performed and exhibited in 2018 and discussion of how the artist's works express resistance to the proposed oil pipeline and energy extraction projects going through or near Indigenous lands in the U.S. and Canada.
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Asian Indigenousnes: The Case of India

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bengt G. Karlsson
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, IWGIA 40 Years On, 2008, pp. 24-30
Looks at the position of India's government and Indigenous rights.
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Asian Indigenousness: The Case of India

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bengt G. Karlsson
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, IWGIA 40 Years On, 2008, pp. 24-30
Discusses India's government and recognition of Indigenous peoples.
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Asserting Mino Pimàdiziwin on Unceded Algonquin Territory: Experiences of a Canadian "Non-status" First Nation in Re-establishing its Traditional Land Ethic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Miguel Sioui
Robert McLeman
AlterNative, vol. 10, no. 4, 2014, pp. 354-375
Research project sought to comprehend the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation's (AAFN) traditional spiritual ecology and compare it to Ontario government resource development strategy.
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Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Inquiry, W.A.C. Bennett Dam and Damage to IR 201, Public Edition July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains submissions, reports, studies, correspondence/letters and video in regards to inquiry which was trying to determine whether the Crown owes compensation in relation to the dam construction. Commissioners include: P.E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, Aurélien Gill.

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Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry - Aboriginal and Treaty Harvesting Rights: Public Release - July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains correspondence/letters, submissions, and oral transcripts in regards to the claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice.

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Athabasca Denesuliné Inquiry Into the Claim of the Fond du Lac, Black Lake, and Hatchet Lake First Nations

E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Indian Claims Commission (ICC) considered whether Canada wrongly denied Treaty rights north of the 60th parallel, beyond Treaty 8 and Treaty 10 boundaries. ICC concluded Treaty boundaries did not extend into the traditional lands north of 60; however harvesting rights do extend beyond Treaty boundaries. Recommended the parties negotiate resolution. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
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Athabasca Denesuline Special Report on the Treaty Harvesting Rights of the Fond Du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nations

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Final, special report examines the legal review of the Athabasca Denesuline claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners were Daniel J. Bellegarde and P.E. James Prentice. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
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Autonomy in Chiapas Mexico

Articles » General
Author/Creator
IWIGA
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 60-65
Delivers a background on the Zapatista uprising in Mexico and the political initiatives introduced to solve the situation. To access this article scroll down to page 60.
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