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Growing the fire within: Exploring innovative and successful adult language learning methods in Indigenous communities in Canada and the US
(2021)
This report summarizes the outcomes of a five-day gathering called “Exploring Innovative and Successful Adult Language Learning Methods in Canadian & US Indigenous Communities” at the First Peoples House at the University ...
From buffalo to beeves: Cattle and the political economy of the Oglala Lakota, 1750--1920.
(2007)
Obstacles such as an unyielding demand by the federal government to implement a farming economy, extensive competition from white ranchers, limited access to regional or local markets, excessive institutional control by ...
Teaching from a place of hope in Indigenous education
(2017)
The Council on Anthropology and Education’s Standing Committee on Indigenous Education has had a presence at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropology Association over the past decade. The CAE Indigenous Education ...
INDIGENIZING THE ACADEMY: A STORY-TELLING JOURNEY TO DETERMINE PATHWAYS FOR NATIVE STUDENT SUCCESS IN ENGINEERING
(2019-12)
This study centers the experiences of Indigenous students persisting in undergraduate engineering programs at non-Native colleges and universities (NNCUs). With Native students having the lowest representation amongst all ...
Green Aspirations: Complex Issues Surrounding Marijuana Legalization in Tribal Contexts and the Discussions that Follow
(2020-07)
Marijuana legalization is becoming increasingly common throughout the United States. Several individual states are legalizing cannabis in one form or another. This situation is leaving American Indian tribes and tribal ...
Repurposing the Comparative Method for Pawnee Language and Dialect Revitalization
(2016-08)
A member of the Caddoan language family, Pawnee is a nearly extinct language with few living fluent speakers. However, there is an active, community-led revitalization movement. Community members involved in revitalization ...
Storying an interconnected web of relationships in Indigenous language reclamation work and scholarship
(2021)
Indigenous language work is manifested in a diversity of community-led responses of resilience and persistence. Indigenous persons who are reclaiming their languages have entered academia with goals of contributing to ...
Creating indigital peripheries: The Bureau of Indian Affairs, geographic information systems, and the digitization of Indian Country.
(2006)
The uneven development of GIS as the BIA represents a core-periphery geography. Since the nineteenth century, North American Indians have encountered the implementation of new technologies used to meet the goals and ...
Remembrance and Perseverance in History of the Native American Church in Oklahoma
(2019-05-10)
In this thesis, I examine the concepts of Native sovereignty, authenticity, (invented) tradition, indigeneity, and cultural heritage as these are applied to the context of the Native American Church (NAC, Peyotism, or the ...
Claiming Space: An Autoethnographic Study of Indigenous Graduate Students Engaged in Language Reclamation
(2015)
This article explores the critical role of an emerging generation of Indigenous scholars and activists in ensuring the continuity of their endangered heritage languages. Using collaborative autoethnography as a research ...