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Contemporary Navajo Affairs
Author | : Norman K. Eck |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105041061156 |
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Describes contemporary Navajo affairs and how they have been influenced by the federal and Tribal governments.
Contemporary Native American Political Issues
Author | : Troy R. Johnson |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0761990615 |
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Moving into the 21st century, Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities remain culturally vibrant and politically innovative as they continue to struggle for survival on many fronts. Editor Troy R. Johnson has assembled a volume of top scholarship from which emerge the complexity and diversity of Native American political life. Each topical section is introduced by the editor's own commentaries, which provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. These are followed by informative and critical studies, many drawn from the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, which offer grounded experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native American political settings.
Contemporary Indian Affairs
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105007012607 |
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American Indian Nations
Author | : George P. Horse Capture,Duane Champagne,Chandler C. Jackson |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 9780759110953 |
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A virtual Who's Who of Native American scholars, activists, and community leaders reflect on the problems and achievements of Native American peoples over the last several decades.
Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 2070 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3608324 |
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Oversight of the Indian Education Act
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : PURD:32754070367168 |
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The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs
Author | : Tom Holm |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-08-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292779570 |
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The United States government thought it could make Indians "vanish." After the Indian Wars ended in the 1880s, the government gave allotments of land to individual Native Americans in order to turn them into farmers and sent their children to boarding schools for indoctrination into the English language, Christianity, and the ways of white people. Federal officials believed that these policies would assimilate Native Americans into white society within a generation or two. But even after decades of governmental efforts to obliterate Indian culture, Native Americans refused to vanish into the mainstream, and tribal identities remained intact. This revisionist history reveals how Native Americans' sense of identity and "peoplehood" helped them resist and eventually defeat the U.S. government's attempts to assimilate them into white society during the Progressive Era (1890s-1920s). Tom Holm discusses how Native Americans, though effectively colonial subjects without political power, nonetheless maintained their group identity through their native languages, religious practices, works of art, and sense of homeland and sacred history. He also describes how Euro-Americans became increasingly fascinated by and supportive of Native American culture, spirituality, and environmental consciousness. In the face of such Native resiliency and non-Native advocacy, the government's assimilation policy became irrelevant and inevitably collapsed. The great confusion in Indian affairs during the Progressive Era, Holm concludes, ultimately paved the way for Native American tribes to be recognized as nations with certain sovereign rights.
The Earth Memory Compass
Author | : Farina King |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780700626915 |
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The Diné, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as it is imparted from generation to generation, and as it has been transformed, and often obscured, by modern modes of education. An autoethnography of sorts, the book follows Farina King’s search for her own Diné identity as she investigates the interconnections among Navajo students, their people, and Diné Bikéyah—or Navajo lands—across the twentieth century. In her exploration of how historical changes in education have reshaped Diné identity and community, King draws on the insights of ethnohistory, cultural history, and Navajo language. At the center of her study is the Diné idea of the Four Directions, in which each of the cardinal directions takes its meaning from a sacred mountain and its accompanying element: East, for instance, is Sis Naajiní (Blanca Peak) and white shell; West, Dook’o’oosłííd (San Francisco Peaks) and abalone; North, Dibé Nitsaa (Hesperus Peak) and black jet; South, Tsoodził (Mount Taylor) and turquoise. King elaborates on the meanings and teachings of the mountains and directions throughout her book to illuminate how Navajos have embedded memories in landmarks to serve as a compass for their people—a compass threatened by the dislocation and disconnection of Diné students from their land, communities, and Navajo ways of learning. Critical to this story is how inextricably Indigenous education and experience is intertwined with American dynamics of power and history. As environmental catastrophes and struggles over resources sever the connections among peoplehood, land, and water, King’s book holds out hope that the teachings, guidance, and knowledge of an earth memory compass still have the power to bring the people and the earth together.