Bureau of Indian Affairs

Looks at the programs available for children, youth and young adults who are in need of special education and services.

Compares ethnicity in those born after systematic state intervention (1960) and those born before.

Article details the contents of an interview conducted by Devon A. Mihesuah with Denise and Deborah Maloney-Pictou, the daughters of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist and a Mi'kmaq-Canadian who was found murdered in 1976 on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The has been much speculation surrounding her death and in relation to the 1972-73 Takeover of Wounded Knee, FBI/AIM involvement, and the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Dakota, 2005.

Explains various terms including: Status, non-status, Métis and Indian; explores differences and similarities between U.S. and Canadian government policies and terminologies.

Education Thesis (D.Ed.)--University of Oklahoma, 1968.

Explores opera which looks at the contradictory forces of social alienation and cultural assimilation that aboriginals faced during the early twentieth century.

A history of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs' investigation into the Ghost Dance prophet Jack Wilson in the late eighteenth century. The investigation was filled with miscommunication, disinterest and confusion regarding the Ghost Dance and the identity of the "Indian Messiah".

Rusco responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy"; argues that Barsh’s thesis creates confusion about the Indian New Deal and is contrary to current evidence.

A discussion of the Indian Agent's formation and use of a police force and court system in Arizona and the bureaucratic politics of the time.

Looks at the circumstances which led to the Koontenai nation declaring war on the United States government in 1974, The tribe was federally recognized but had been given no land base nor received any monetary compensation.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2001.

[Educational Administration and Supervision] Thesis (D.Ed.)--Arizona State University, 2011.

Response to previous article, Present Aspects of the Indian Problem, by Carl Schurz. Originally published in North American Review, March 1882.

Outlines a brief history of the Alaskan education from the Mission school to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the need for reconciliation of educational thought with village conditions.

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.

An investigation of the evolving legal history of the Navajo Nation following the Second World War. The Navajo legal counsel provides legal opinions on land, resource development, employment, and the protection of sovereignty.

Explains that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) administers schools until such time as the State is able to take over duties; states BIA has no statutory requirement to provide education.

Discusses deficiencies in English language proficiency and the need for appropriate materials for teaching English as a second language to Navaho students.

Discusses the history of First Nation relations in Canada and the United States and why they developed differently.

Describes a planned role reversal workshop where students taught the teachers their language and culture.

Kelly responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy"; criticizes Barsh’s interpretation of the content of the “Ludington Papers” on which much of his thesis is based.

Book review of: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South by Malinda Maynor Lowery.

Discusses how new cultural policies instituted under James Collier affected the curriculum in government-run industrial schools.

Overview of Act of 1978 implemented to get rid of abusive child-welfare practices and discriminatory practices of the state and county welfare agencies. Gave tribal governments and courts jurisdiction over child placement.

A response to Cathleen Cahill's article Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin: Indigenizing the Federal Indian Service regarding Baldwin's departure from the Society of American Indians and her campaign to exclude African-Americans from employment in the Indian Service.

Biography of an attorney in the Office of Indian Affairs traces developments in her political outlook and her involvement in the Society of American Indians. Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 63.

Book review of Matrons and Maids by Victoria K. Haskins.

Provides a general overview of contemporary tribal America before describing the legal, political, and institutional contexts for mental health service delivery administered through the Indian Health Service.

Comments on an unlikely friendship between a Japanese-American girl and a Native American boy in a children's novel.

Commentary on how the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) employed photography to represent social problems and the government's solutions to those problems.

Sovereign status of the Blackfeet Nation permits the establishment of financial institutions that are not subject to state and federal management.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 1997.

Argues that multicultural commitments in American society lack meaningful substance and that Native cultures are suppressed by the policies and actions of the government.

Examines the issues of comparative scholarly study in the context of differences pertaining to membership recognition.

Examines how the trading post culture was selectively chosen by the Navajo as a means of enriching their lives without sacrificing cultural integrity.

Arts and Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2004.

Newsletter published by American residential school reflects happenings, attitudes and policies of the time.

Newsletter published by American residential school reflects happenings, attitudes and policies of the time.

Newsletter published by Phoenix Indian School reflects happenings, attitudes and policies of the time.

Article offers an analysis of data collected about the voting practices of Indigenous voters in two different elections in the United States. 674 Indigenous voters in 7 states were interviewed, findings indicate that while income and education levels play a role, Indian status is strongly related to whether an individual voted in these elections.

Newsletter published by American residential school reflects happenings, attitudes and policies of the time.

Examines the abuse of Native American women's reproductive rights in the 1970s.

Discussion of uranium mining, questions of sovereignty, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, cultural integrity, radiation hazards and the anti-nuclear movement.

Looks at how the powers of tribal governments have been diminished over time by acts of the United States federal government.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Perdue University, 1998.