Bureau of Indian Affairs

Study reveals that educators at locally controlled schools perceive themselves as having a greater impact on policy than Bureau of Indian Affairs school personnel.

Educational Leadership Thesis (Ph.D.)--Miami University, 1999.

Argues that although Bureau of Indian Affairs officials viewed events as an opportunity to promote its assimilation program and display the "progress" students had made, their efforts failed because the public was much more interested in the romanticized, stereotypical version of American Indian.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The George Washington University, 2003.

[History Thesis (M.A)--Illinois State University, 2006].

Hoxie responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy", citing archival evidence to illustrate his assertion that the Indian New Deal policies show no real change from those of previous administrations despite the rhetoric that surrounded them.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Colorado State University, 2001.

Study defines the cultural values and symbols of the Snoqualmie people and then uses the maintenance of these cultural pieces to evaluate the resistance of the Snoqualmie to assimilation.

No significant differences between genders or races were reported, stress factors reported included inadequate salary and lack of recognition.

Explains that the National Archives contains regional archives, in cities across the United States, in an attempt to preserve original records created by field offices of federal agencies and microfilm copies of records kept in Washington.

Author responds to William W. Quinn, Jr.’s article "The Southeast Syndrome: Notes on Indian Descendant Recruitment Organizations and Their Perceptions of Native American Culture” published in AIQ 14:2. Discusses identity, identity policing, and settler self-indigenization.

Examines reading and writing as separate skills; how writing enables communication to travel up the hierarchy and how historically the Southern Paiutes historically used their new writing abilities.

Analysis of how reservations in USA were formerly held in trust by the Federal Government, however title has become progressively more complicated due to state and local jurisdiction.

Brief discussion of how the meaning and expression of sovereignty has evolved in the United States.

Argues that consultation processes, with the United States administration, need to continue and that reporting requirements and accountability need to be put in place in order to ensure that important issues are addressed.

Discusses women's predisposition for innovations due to their traditional cultural backgrounds. Focus is placed on the Navajo's shift from self-sufficient agricultural work to wage-based work in the service, industrial and large farm-based industries.

An analysis of the implementation of US federal aid policies and how their distribution created a larger economic divide for Indigenous citizens against non-Indigenous ones. Very little funds make it to the Indigenous people or were used to promote private-sector activities.

Special Education and Rehabilitation Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1997.

Religious Education Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University, 1964.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1967

Looks at culturally relevant teaching, in an alternative school, that addresses the needs of a changing society.

Educational Administration Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2000.

Argues that government attitudes, policies, and failure to adapt farming to accommodate Aboriginal patterns of behaviour impeded adaptation to an agrarian way of life.

Explains her experience teaching English as a second language to adult Navajo students.

Navajo aides assigned to a resource room to provide supplemental, individualized instruction to children with specific language and reading needs.

Focuses on developing cultural awareness of new Bureau of Indian Affairs employees at the Navajo Area Division of Education.

Delves into the failures of John Collier's Indian-centered reform program which was guided by principles of progressive education.

Author reflects on Lumbee identity, community and its personal meaning to her.

Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

Author examines attempts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to terminate Indian tribes’ status and recognition in the United States following the second world war. Focuses on the Eastern Cherokee and the conditions surrounding the Nation’s fight for continued recognition.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2009.

Looks at how John Collier changed the social structure of administration when he became Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1933.

First Nation efforts to maintain their dance and ceremony.

Study conducted to identify instructional and management needs common to all education programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Study surveyed 72 attendees from the late 1940s through the early 1980s to gather information on their experiences, both good and bad.

English Language and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2016.

Examines the Deer Clan and those who were attempting to create a sense of community and identity in southeastern United States.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2010.

Book review of: To Show Heart... by George Pierre Castile. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1998. Includes analysis of self-determination within President Nixon's decentralizing social programs.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (USA) in 1930 sought to encourage the appreciation of carvings as art.

Article provides a literary historical reading of photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) photo archive of the “relocation project.” Discusses the relocation as both an institutional and an aesthetic venture.

Previously unpublished report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education; highly critical of the system in place and advocates development of truly "Native" education.

Book review of: Trails to Tiburon: the 1894 and 1895 Field Diaries of W. J. McGee edited by Hazel McFeely Fontana and Bernard L. Fontana.

Essay on status of the tribes and other historical background concerning pre and post Treaty-making era.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1999.

Address by the director of U. S. President Johnson's "War on Poverty" states that Native Americans must determine their needs and solutions to problems rather than being dictated to by government.

Report summarizes census of State and local law enforcement agencies, census of state and local prosecutor offices serving Tribal lands, census of Tribal law enforcement agencies and national survey of Tribal court systems.