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Cultural Genocide in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jon Reyhner
Navin Kumar Singh
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 21, no. 4, Winter, 2010
Comments on the importance of maintaining traditional values, cultures and languages in the effort to close the academic achievement gap that can be found between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.
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Culturally Relevant Governance

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 4, Tribal College Governance, Summer, 2015
Looks at the occupation of Wounded Knee and the struggle of the Oglala Lakota people.
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Culturally Responsive Schooling for Indigenous Youth

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
Shows how community and culture based education contributes to academic success for American Indian and Alaska Native children. Recommendations are provided.
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Deadly Embrace: From State Sovereignty to Cooperative Agreements in a Public Law-280 State

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 2008 Western Social Science Association Meeting, American Indian Studies Section
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeff Armstrong
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2008, p. [?]
Outlines the history of Minnesota's jurisdictional arrangements with the Anishinabe Ojibwe of White Earth and five other reservations of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and how the state began asserting its sovereignty over those reservations. Scroll down to access article.
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Decolonizing the Choctaw Nation: Choctaw Political Economy in the Twentieth Century

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sandra Faiman-Silva
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 43-73
Analysis of the Choctaw, who live in the southeastern Oklahoma timber region, and how they survive in the face of land alienation and economic challenges to their traditional strategies, in order to maintain a livelihood.
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The Diminishment of the Great Sioux Reservation: Treaties, Tricks, and Time

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan L. Neville
Alyssa Kaye Anderson
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, Fall, 2013, pp. 237-251
Looks at several treaties and acts which all contributed to loss of land belonging to the Sioux: Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851; Homestead Act of 1862; Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868; Act of 1877; Allotment Act of 1886; Act of 1889 and Wheeler-Howard Act; Pick-Sloan Flood Control Act of 1944; Indian Land Consolidation Act.
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Don't Worry, Be Guilty

Articles » General
Author/Creator
David C. Williams
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3, Reparations for Indigenous Peoples, Fall, 2007
Reports on the lack of a reparations program for indigenous peoples in the United States.
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Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, Lebensraum, and Manifest Destiny

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 115-122
Uses the ideology of manifest destiny to connect the policies and political practices of Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and Adolf Hitler; focuses on the removal of one people or race to make living space for another.
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Drastic Facts about Our Indians and Our Indian System

Alternate Title
Our Forlorn Indians
What's the Matter with Our Indians?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Richard H. Pratt]

Founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and proponent of residential school system in the U.S., argues that assimilation is required "to help the Indians to progress into civilization".

Language and content reflect the attitudes of the times but would be considered offensive by modern standards.

 

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Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kathy M'Closkey
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 149-152
Book review of: Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country by Marsha L. Weisiger.
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Ecological Relations and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Standing Rock

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Morgan L. Ruelle
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 113-125
Discusses how colonization has disrupted communities' relationship with the land, efforts to restore the connection on the reservation, and how ideas about tradition and sustainability are linked to food sovereignty.
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Elder Care and Medicare

Alternate Title
Commentary: Tribal Voices
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Freida Svendsen (as told to Felicia Hodge)
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 3, 2009, pp. 101-102
Discusses restrictive medical care for the poor and elderly in American Indian communities.
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Erdrich’s Crusade: Sexual Violence in The Round House

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Tharp
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 25-40
Examines how this novel about sexual abuse against Native women disrupts readers and scholars' expectations. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 25.
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