Bureau of Indian Affairs

Describes Phase One of the Effective Schools Movement (1989-94), a program that uses monitoring and evaluation to bring about reform.

Argues that while the relationship between the department and tribes is usually portrayed as antagonistic, the reality is much more complex.

Discusses the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations and State influence after 1885.

Investigates an order, from the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA), that requested that all OIA physicians learn to perform the approved operations for the cure of trachoma, a disease of the eye(s), and how this policy may have caused even more suffering for patients.

Author considers different perceptions of and from people of mixed Black and Cherokee ancestry in an attempt to better understand the discourses surrounding the Cherokee Freedmen, tribal affiliations, and the constructs of individual and community identities.

Book reviews of: The Politics of Minor Concerns: American Indian Policy and Congressional Dynamics by Charles Turner. Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975-1993 by George Pierre Castile.

Book review of: Pratt, the Red Man's Moses by Elaine Goodale Eastman. All book reviews of one pdf. To access review, scroll to appropriate page.

Discusses several books that delve into the history and policy for American Indians, including issues related to law and justice, education, and cross-cultural relations.

Enrolment and administration trends in schools that serve Native American students.

Discusses U.S.Government draft policies during World War II and the response of Commissioner Indian Affairs, John Collier, and Native American tribes. Issues included wardship versus citizenship and tribal sovereignty.

Examines the Miccosukees' struggle for self determination with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Department of the Interior.

Comments on the ways a small community gleaned more than money from New Deal programs.

Satirical article which appeared in an unknown Native American activist newsletter. Reverses the roles of Euro-Americans and Native Americans in history.

President Regan's policy statement reaffirms the government-to-government relationship of Indian Tribes with the United States and supports special development of reservation economies.

Reviews the impact of reforms in the Educate America Act, 1994 on the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools.

Discusses McKenney's stand on the factory system, the Civilization Fund Act of 1819, and the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Relates the optimism stemming from the enactment of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act which became law in 1975.

Assessment of progress in Indian education, excerpted from keynote speech by Joe H. Herrera, at the 13th Annual Indian Education Conference.

Explores contexts and subtexts of the debate about American national identity.

Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--Oklahoma State University, 2010.

Describes his efforts on behalf of the Arizona communities of Fort McDowell and Salt River, and his opposition to Bureau of Indian Affairs and the reservation system. Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 311.

Examines how practices became centralized through historical exchanges of geographic information between Indigenous people and non-Indians.

Studies how maps have played a role in clarifying and evaluating Native American land tenure.

Describes the different education goals of the federal government and Catholic church.

Humanities and Social Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Nova Southeastern University, 2002.

Chronicles the history of Native American health since European contact to the challenges of the present day.

Investigates the history of health care delivery to recognized tribes in the United States.

Argues poverty must be understood in a geographic and political context rather than attributed to individuals' lack of motivation.

Author challenges the assumption that population growth among Indigenous people during the early reservation period was an indicator of the success of the reservation health care system. Argues that maternal/infant health is a better indicator and considers the Northern Cheyenne people as an ethnohistorical example.

Historical overview of the evolution of Yuki tribal chiefs from precontact to the acculturation era of the late nineteenth century.

Brief biography of author and physician, whose writings focused on Native American spirituality, morality and mythology. Best-known for the autobiographical works Indian Boyhood and From the Deep Woods to Civilization.

Dropout rate due to schools operating on European models which does not take into account cultural differences.

Contends that the Cherokee Nation was perceived, manipulated, and distorted according to the society of the times, which had its own multiple and internal conflicts.

Presents jurisprudence and discussion of the Cheyenne-Arapaho peoples Treaty right to medical care from the United States federal government.

Examines two educational experiments carried out by the University of Chicago at the Sac and Fox Indian settlement in Tama County, Iowa.

History of dispute between the Bureau of Indian Affairs (formerly the War Department) and church schools funded by public monies.

Traces the attitudes toward the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the late 19th century.

Commentary on a late 19th century U. S. government program designed to eradicate Native American culture and undercut tribal autonomy.

Fiction by a creative writing student from a mission school.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1997.

Describes case study of a patient centered care model created by the Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2010. Based on viewpoints of Napoleon Bonaparte Johnson, Helen Peterson, Oliver La Farge, and Hugh Butler.

Asserts that the Indian Health Service (IHS) should be the health system of choice for all American citizens, and recalls the many political events that has affected the BIA's budget and mandate.

Paper presents a case study of critical issues in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) within the tribal government of one of ten demonstration projects selected.

Examines American Indian cultural expressions linked to United States food assistance programs.

Looks at the relationship between the Boys Farm Club, the Eastern Cherokees, federal, state and local entities.