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From:Endangered Species Bulletin (Vol. 33, Issue 2)The Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, the largest reservation in California, is located in a remote area of Humboldt County approximately 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of the Oregon border. Composed of 90,000 acres...
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From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIndians belonging to the Blackfeet tribe in Glacier National Park in Montana ensured that they achieved an economic justice during the early 1900s by lobbying for per capita distributions of tribally-owned assets....
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From:Endangered Species Update (Vol. 25, Issue 4)The Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, the largest reservation in California, is located in a remote area of Humboldt County approximately 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of the Oregon border. Composed of 90,000 acres...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 22, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe development of a slave society in the Southeast US in the early 18th century was regarded as threatening to Native groups there, such as the Creeks. Creek Indians declared in 1738 that they preferred the Spanish to...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEducating Dakota Children in Missionary Homes, 1835-1862 In 1839, Mary Riggs, a Protestant missionary living in Minnesota, wrote to her mother about an incident involving a Dakota mother and her daughter, who had...
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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 87, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the northwest corner of the US, commercial farmers defend their place-based heritage against the scientific and regulatory strategies of local Native American tribes seeking to restore salmon habitat in agricultural...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 67, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBeads made from Gulf of California dwarf olive shells (Olivella dama) have recently been identified from the Spiro sire in eastern Oklahoma. This is the first evidence from Spiro of culture contact to the west. The...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDifferences between the spiritual practices of Moravian missionaries and Lenape Indians help to explain the psychological aspects of conversion from Lenape to Moravian religious practices. The Moravian's relationship to...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 22, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe relations between Native Americans and African Americans in Mexico and other parts of North America has been obscured by the lumping of different kinds of racial mixing into the simple category of mestizo, supposedly...
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From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedReimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940. By Sherry L. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 217 pp. Photographs, notes and index. $35.00. Sherry Smith examines the writings of...
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From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBy local custom, families hold giveaway ceremonies to honor and remember their loved ones at all of life's major events. Among them are naming and adoption ceremonies, high school and college graduations, military...
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From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 40, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedQuestion: How many Singers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Seven ... One to actually change the light bulb, and six to sing the Light Bulb Changing Song. A very beautiful Lakota woman was sitting at a...
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From:Instructor (1990) (Vol. 111, Issue 4)I am Muskogee Creek Indian and an associate professor of multicultural education at a university in rural western Pennsylvania. Around Thanksgiving time, I often get calls from local principals and teachers, who want me...
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From:Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAIS) (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHOW DO WE MAKE SCHOLARLY (and political) sense of the everyday lives of people living in Native communities? By "everyday" I do not mean the episodic moments (and movements) of critical consciousness or resistance (e.g.,...
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From:California History (Vol. 86, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Government seems to learn very slowly that Indians are not all alike, and that different stock or races of Indians ordinarily cannot be put together. We may consider their ideas or antipathies childish, pet, if we...
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From:The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Vol. 74, Issue 4)Policing in and adjacent to land within "Indian country" (1) is often a complex and, at times, confusing jurisdictional puzzle. Solving this puzzle depends on a variety of factors, including whether the crime is a...
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From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSeptember 19, 2014 to January 11, 2015 The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky unites the finest Plains Indians works of art from European and North American collections, giving visitors a rare opportunity to...
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From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis shirt is Lakota style, but Cheyenne, Crow and other Plains tribes constructed their shirts much the same way. The shirt starts with two brain-tanned deer hides of average size. Each sleeve is cut from the upper...
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From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFunerals are a part of all our lives. Every culture through out the world has its own way of dealing with the death of family and friends. Native American people are no different in that respect. The ceremony and rites...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 28, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn the morning my left hip aches so that it hurts to stand, hurts to walk to the kitchen for my coffee. In the two days that I have not walked with the march, leaving the group at a community center in Henderson after a...