Policy
American Indians Higher Education Before 1974: From Colonization to Self-Determination
Alternate Title
Section A: International
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David R.M. Beck
Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 27, no. 2, 1999, pp. 12-23
Description
Brief overview of significant events in the evolution of secondary education.
An Anglo-American Rethinks Native American Education: Can We Avoid Yesterday's Tragedies?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mitchell J. Moore
Essays in Education, vol. 14, 2005, p. article 13
Description
Discusses three eras of Native American education: the Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial and looks at the relevance of the changes on culture recovery.
The Anomaly of Judical Activism in Indian Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James J. Lopach
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 83-104
Description
Examines the power of US tribal courts, the Indian Reorganization Act and the arguments for judical review.
The Antecedents of Failure and Emerging Hope: American Indians & Public Higher Education
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Don B. Woodcock
Osman Alawiye
Education, vol. 121, no. 4, Summer, 2001, pp. 810-820
Description
Historical overview of major issues leading up to under representation of the American Indian at public institutions of higher education.
Applying Lessons from the U.S. Indian Child Welfare Act to Recently Passed Federal Child Protection Legislation in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hayley Hahn
Johanna Caldwell
Vandna Sinha
International Indigenous Policy Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, The COVID-19 Pandemic and Indigenous Peoples, 2020, pp. 1-32
Description
Looks at the passing of Canada's Bill C-92 and what it could learn from the United States' Indian Child Welfare Act in regards to the well-being and care of Indigenous children.
Appropriate Technologies in the Traditional Native American Smokehouse: Public Health Considerations in Tribal Community Development
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Flanagan
Nicholas C. Zaferatos
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 69-93
Description
Examines how the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community was able to build a ceremonial smokehouse and reduce the associated health risks, by applying appropriate technologies.
Arapaho and Cheyenne Perspectives: From the 1851 Treaty to the Sand Creek Massacre
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Loretta Fowler
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2015, pp. 364-390
Description
Describes the processes involved in tribal decision making process and how the U.S. government policy contributed to the conflict.
Archives of Native Presence: Land Tenure Research on the Grand Ronde Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ian Kretzler
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 45-70
Description
Argues that tribal historic preservation methods provide insight for all cultural heritage managers. Uses the approach and findings of the Grand Ronde Land Tenure Project as an example of repurposing archival documents in the interests of the Indigenous peoples.
Are the Eastern Industrial Training Schools for Indian Children a Failure?
Alternate Title
[A Crisis in the Cause of Indian Education]
[Captain Pratt and His Work for Indian Education]
[Captain Pratt and His Work]
[Christian Schools among the Indians: A Letter from Bishop Hare]
[Hampton's Indian Students at Home]
[Statistics Relating to Indian Schools, 1882]
[The Church and the Indians]
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Helen W. Ludlow
James McLaughlin
Elaine Goodale
William H. Hare
Herbert Welsh
Charles Warren]
Description
Pamphlet produced in response to debates in Congress on the Indian Appropriation Bill. Includes various letters, articles, statistics, extract from Congressional Record, and The Indian School at Carlisle Barracks, published by U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education in 1880.
Assessing the Research on Early Childhood Home Visiting Models Implemented with Tribal Populations; Part 1: Evidence of Effectiveness
Alternate Title
Assessing the Research on Early Childhood Home Visiting Models Implemented with Tribal Populations; Part 2: Lessons Learned about Implementation and Evaluation
OPRE Report ; no. 2020-164
OPRE Report ; no. 2020-165
E-Books
Author/Creator
Andrea Mraz Esposito
Armando Yanez
Rebecca Coughlin
Emily Sama-Miller
Description
"Original Report Published: February 2011".
Related Material: Part 2: Lessons Learned about Implementation and Evaluation.
Assimilation and Identity Among the Kodiak Island Sugpiat
Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference ; 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gordon L. Pullar
Description
Discusses the early years of Russian occupation and education on Kodiak Island, and the suppression of language and culture by the American education system.
"At the Head of the Aboriginal Remnant": Cherokee Construction of a "Civilized" Indian Indentity During the Lakota Crisis of 1876
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Kelton
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1, Winter, 2003, pp. 3-17
Description
Looks at the level of "civilization" the Cherokee nation had acheived compared to that of other native American societies including the Lakota.
Australia Apologizes To Aborigines For Stolen Generations
Articles » General
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Burma Burning, Spring, 2008
Description
Comments on the Australian governments apology to the more than 50,000 Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families and the lack of an apology from the Canadian and American governments.
Avenues of Criminal Justice: The Blackfoot Confederacy From 1877 to 1889
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alvina Pillai
Jeffrey Velez
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Winter, 2014, pp. 123-141
Description
Notes how consistent and conservative Canadian Indian policies were compared to those in the United States.
"Because We Do Not Know Their Way": Standardizing Practices and Peoples Through Habitus, the NCLB "Highly-Qualified" Mandate, and PRAXIS I Examinations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sundy Watanabe
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 47, no. 1, 2008, pp. 118-135
Description
Comments on the contribution the No Child Left Behind Act has made to the miseducation of American Indian/Alaska Native populations.
Behavioral and Mental Health Research in the Arctic: Strategy Setting Meeting
Articles » General
Author/Creator
M. Levintova
W.I. Zapok
N. Engmann
Circumpolar Health Supplements, no. 5, 2010
Description
Goals of report are to develop a United States Government Human Health Research Strategy that will advise on the development of a research plan.
Beloved Women: Life Givers, Caretakers, Teachers of Future Generations
Alternate Title
Sharing our Stories of Survival: Native women Surviving Violence
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Agtuca
Description
Chapter 1 of : Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence edited by Sara Deer.
Discusses protection of American Indian women eroded by court actions.
The Benefits of Being Indian: Blood Quanta, Intermarriage, and Allotment Policy on the White Earth Reservation, 1889–1920
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Ellinghaus
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2 & 3, 2008, pp. 81-105
Description
Discussion on how the United States government used the intermarriage between Indians and non-Indians to undermine Indian control of their own lands and legal identity.
Beyond Blood Quantum: Exploring the Origins & Implications of Imposed Indigenous Identification Policies to Reclaim Tribal Citizenship & Rebuild Native Nationhood
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erika Eva Chase
Description
Attempts to decolonize Indigenous citizenship to more relevant and timely conceptions.
Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (B.A.)--Stanford University, 2010.
Big Changes in the Indian Health Service: Are Nurses Aware
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia A. Holkup
Journal of Transcultural Nursing, vol. 13, no. 1, 2002, pp. 47-53
Description
Explores the opportunities and challenges facing Native American health care delivery and examines nursing policy issues pertinent to the current state of the Indian Health Service (IHS).
Biological Absorption and Genocide: A Comparison of Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Ellinghaus
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 59-79
Description
Discusses theories which were based on the premise that interracial relationships would basically 'breed out' Indigenous people.
Black Lines, White Spaces: Towards Decoding a Rhetoric of Indian Identity
Alternate Title
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Meta Carstarphen
Description
Looks at the newspaper The Indian Chieftain's role in the formation of Native American identity.
"Blackfeet Belong to the Mountains": Hope, Loss, and Blackfeet Claims to Glacier National Park, Montana
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David R. Craig
Laurie Yung
William T. Borrie
Conservation and Society, vol. 10, no. 3, July-September 2012, pp. 232-242
Description
Discusses the potential for cultural reclamation and renewal by the Blackfeet due to the parks natural state. Suggests co-management of parklands in the future.
Blinded with Science: American Indians, the Office of Indian Affairs, and the Federal Campaign against Trachoma, 1924-1927
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Todd Benson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 119-142
Description
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.
Blood (and) Memory
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chadwick Allen
American Literature, vol. 71, no. 1, March 1999, pp. 93-116
Description
Discusses the debate about what constitutes American Indian identity by contrasting U.S. government's standard of blood quantum with N. Scott Momaday's trope of "memory in the blood" as a sign of racial authenticity.