Bureau of Indian Affairs

Goal of research was to review history and current program of timber management as it relates to self-government.

Anticipating the passage of the 1994 Death Valley National Monument Act, the Timbisha Shoshone passed a resolution calling for the establishment of 160,000 acres of reservation land, located both inside and near the Death Valley National Park.

Looks at trust responsibility and accountability in United States law; contemporary division of labour in Federal Indian programs; and applicability to Canada.

Examines the death registers from the Office of Indian Affairs, and the higher crude death rates, which were the highest rates compared to entire population of USA.

Describes the standard and nation-building approaches to development, and discusses why one works and the other does not. The authors also make suggestions as to how Indian nations can move from one approach to the other.

History of Native American education legislation from the 1600's to 1972.

Article defines “plenary power” and examines its roots and use by the United States Government against Indigenous peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Discussion on the injustice of the federal government's actions regarding Indian land rights and the class action lawsuit regarding the federal government’s failure to fulfill its fiduciary duty for assets held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Looks at reasons why Indian agents and national census takers often could not obtain accurate information, including: linguistic and cultural differences, distrust, uncertainty of racial categories, geographic mobility, and isolation of communities.

Looks at the creation of the US Acknowledgement and Research Branch to investigate California Indigenous tribes seeking federal recognition. Also includes a list of California tribes seeking federal recognition during the 1980s.

Article examines the Indian Residential Schools in the United States during the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century; links the conditions in the schools to the failure of American Indian policy in the States.

Looks at some of the groups trying to obtain legal status as Indian tribes and the barriers involved in the federal recognition process.

Comparative Arts and Letters Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University, 2016.

Argues that the success of the Native American fair is a rare example of a government program for Native Americans that was going in the right direction.

A description of victim advocacy and coordinated services for families of missing persons. The services sources covered are: Tribal Victim Services, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and United States Attorney's Office. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 27.

Discusses the specific case of Amanda Chingren, who oversaw the "outing" (transition from residential schools or reservations to domestic employment) of Native American girls.

Arts and Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1986.

Considers Potawatomie’s address at the 1893 World’s Fair, in which he used the platform to expose the realities of the U.S. Government Indian policy, as a rhetorical strategy of resistance and an attempt to garner sympathy from the public at large. Discusses the implications and potential fallout of Potawatomie’s move.

Relates how colonization and Western influences have caused societal problems in Indian cultures. Restorative justice models by the Navajo and Haudenosaunee are also explored.

Describes progress being made in living conditions and prospects for the future on American reservations.

Looks at the American federal governments "new" reservation policy designed with the goal of creating order on the Great Plains.

Author explores the United States Government’s termination movement and the resulting resistance from the Menominee people situating the response within the context of the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Red Power Movement, and the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Compares and contrasts the social and mores existing in American Indian societies of the nineteenth century with those of the Anglo-Europeans. The article also discusses the effects of assimilation and post-assimilation policies on those social structures.

Authors re-examine the discourse surrounding the life and death of the Kiowa leader Satanta; discuss how even contemporary perceptions of Indigenous historical figures are rooted in colonial narratives of conquest which sought to diminish the humanity of Indigenous peoples and extinguish Indigenous title in favour of white settler expansion.

An anonymous contribution to the issue which briefly describes the first American Indian Support Program (AISP) within a public Community College from its conceptualization to dissolution 23 years later.

Highlights the Wichita tribal migration oral history as recorded by Indian Agent Dr. John Sibley in the early nineteenth century.

Studies the conflicting claims to reservation land through the tribe's "Section 2415 Land Research Project" initiated in 1978.

Examines the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and colonization via domestic service or by a BIA approved marriage.

Special Education Thesis (D.Ed.)--University of Arizona, 1982.

Discusses the commemorative march of 2002, and recounts the 1862 forced removal of the Dakota people from their Minnesota homeland.

Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service, Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Cardinal Stritch University, 2003.