Bureau of Indian Affairs

Book review of: Federal Fathers and Mothers by Cathleen D. Cahill.

Agricultural History and Rural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 1999.

Examines the methods by which contemporary governments operate among several American Indian tribes.

Deloria responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy" arguing that much of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) policy is rooted in racism and in BIA employees’ desire to keep their jobs.

Looks at how the Indian self-determination policy is helping the federal government fulfill obligations to Native Americans.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 1980.

Book review of: A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 by Frederick E. Hoxie.

Describes ten findings of the report and reactions from the 18th Annual Indian Education Conference participants.

"Year ending June 30, 1911." Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

Reviews court cases trying to clarify Indian salmon fishing treaty rights and Judge Boldt's decision in the case of United States v Washington.

Program designed to address issues of poor attendance, low achievement and alienation with the school process.

Using a peer-to-peer tutorial method, project seemed to reduce the regressive trend in reading abilities.

Announcement of the splitting of Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College into two separate colleges in an effort to enhance programs and services to students.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Texas, 1998.

History Thesis ( Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2001.

Social Sciences Thesis (M.A.)--Emporia State University, 2012.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nebraska, 2009.

Article discusses the spiritual and cultural-based resistance to the imposition of colonial culture, religion, and law; the banning if Indigenous spiritual practice by that colonial state(s) as a response; and the implementation of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) in 1978 which extended First Amendment Rights to the Indigenous peoples living in the United States.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1990.

Comments on the Harry S. Truman administration reversing the approach of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Describes a program for using a greenhouse in vocational training and a centre for individualized learning.

Explains how Aboriginal writers are plagued with problems of consciousness and experience, mostly on the part of the readers.

Examines possibilities and pitfalls of technological enterprises within Aboriginal cultures.

Traces women's involvement through eight decades (1920-2000) of community organization. Special issue: Urban American Women's Activism.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2010.

Biographical sketch of a Native American who advocated full immersion into white European culture.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, San Bernardino, 2020.

Religion Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2000.

Looks at the demise of the ancestral village of Yuquot and the subsequent relocation of the Mowachaht and Muchalaht First Nations to Ahaminaquus and later to the present village of Tsaxana. Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

Hauptman responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy" offering a critical perspective on the article and arguing that it creates a new framework for considering the policies of Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 20th century.

Explores the connection between Cuba and the Miccosukee people in Florida and its effect on relationships with state and federal governing bodies.

Clow responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy" asserting that Barsh’s paper misreads a historic cause-effect relationship and that it provides a flawed assessment of the different objectives of the self-rule approach to Indian Policy.

Study of four institutions providing Bureau of Indian Affairs programs designed to assist students.

A comparison of the boarding schools for Mexican, Canadian and American Indigenous communities.

Describes the minimum blood quantum requirement for tribal membership, the history of its implementation, and how it originated with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI); argues that blood quantum is a bureaucratic tool rather than a genuine measure of Indigeneity.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2001.

Looks at the education system, at the turn of the century, through the eyes of Charlie Twist from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who enrolled in the Rapid City Indian School in 1909.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1998.

Educational Leadership Thesis (Ed.D.)--Northern Arizona University, 1998.

Overview of fishing rights protests during 1960s and 1970s in Washington State

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2000.

Book review of: Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945-1995 by Mark R. Scherer.

Discusses the rapid social change and long-term effects that undermined traditional self-sufficient Alaskan lifestyle including factors such as welfare dependence; and stresses strategies about education and community development are essential.