Introduction: "It is What Keeps Us Sisters": Indigenous Women and the Power of Story
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Inés Hernández-Avila
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2002, pp. ix-xviii
Description
Introduction to a special journal issue on Indigenous women, with reference to the hard work done in what is like a war zone. The article is framed in the wake of September 11, 2001 and reflects how the issues of survival still resonate true even now.
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Personal Memories of Alcatraz, 1969
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Luis S. Kemnitzer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 103-109
Description
Remembering what turned out to be a significant historical event, one Professor of Anthropology gives his perspective.
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Alcatraz Recollections
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tim Findley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 59-74
Description
Gives different perspectives on the Alcatraz story, including insider-outsider and Native-Non-Native. The author comments how the occupation is still told like a legend or a folk tale would be.
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Black and Red: The Pilbara Pastoral Workers' Strike, 1946
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Hess
Aboriginal History, vol. 18, 1994, pp. 65-83
Description
Comments on a strike that, although it did not end exploitation of Aboriginal labour, is a very significant event in Australian labour history.
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From the Reservation to Smithsonian via Alcatraz
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George P. Horse Capture
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 135-149
Description
Describes how there is sunshine everywhere, pride, perseverance, and a reawakening of an ancient culture which, the author contends, all came about due to the occupation of Alcatraz Island.
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"Our Mother Earth Is My Purpose": Recollections From Mr. Albert Smith, Na'ashó'ii dich'ízhii
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annie Ross
Albert Smith
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, 2013, pp. 105-124
Description
Looks at the World War II military service through the recollections of a Navajo veteran.
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Alcatraz is Not an Island
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lenny Foster
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 131-134
Description
Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island set the stage for Native American peoples spiritual rebirth and was the beginning of the reclaiming of pride and dignity for all Indian nations.
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The Battle over Termination on the Colville Indian Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen A. Dahl
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 29-53
Description
Sums up the liquidation of reservation resources and argues that, for the Colville Confederated Tribes, sovereignty is the only path to follow.
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"Where Is John Wayne?": The Menominee Warriors Society, Indian Militancy, and Social Unrest during the Alexian Brothers Novitiate Takeover
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Libby R. Tronnes
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Autumn, 2002, pp. 526-558
Description
Author explores the United States Government’s termination movement and the resulting resistance from the Menominee people situating the response within the context of the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Red Power Movement, and the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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A Fair Country?: A Feminist and Postcolonial Reading of Canada's Colonial Encounter
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel Loewen Walker
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2013, pp. 117-131
Description
Examines John Ralston Saul's book A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada and declares that Canadian nationalism started in opposition to, and not in support of the Indigenous way of life.
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Governor William B. Caldwell’s Souvenir: Exoticism and a Gentleman’s Reputation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Peers
Anne Lindsay
Manitoba History, no. 73, Fall, 2013, pp. 2-8
Description
Discusses the significance of a decorated and dried human hand acquired by a colonial administrator who was posted at the Red River Settlement.
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Indians and Englishmen at the First Roanoke Colony: A Note on Pemisapan's Conspiracy, 1585-86
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael L. Oberg
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 75-89
Description
Critical examination to investigate if Wingina, a Roanoke leader, organized a plot to attack the settlement, located on Roanoke Island, with the assistance of Algonquian bands.
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Commemorating John A. Macdonald: Collective Remembering and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy J Stanley
BC Studies, no. 204, (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, 01 09, 2020, pp. 89-113
Description
Article discusses the ways that place names and public cultural artifacts in the city of Victoria enforce colonial histories and the erasure of Indigenous and Chinese narratives. Uses the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald from the entrance to city hall as a case study to examine the similarities between the arguments of apologists and the colonial practices of early Canada.
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The Government and the Indians: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1971
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Garvey
Troy Johnson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 151-188
Description
Gives a history of the occupation of Alcatraz Island, with a vacant federal penitentiary, including how Native Americans claimed title to the island under the doctrine of “right of discovery”.
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A Reminiscence of the Alcatraz Occupation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward D. Castillo
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 111-122
Description
Description, by the author, on his experiences of attending university, being the first member in a family to attend college, and reflections regarding the three months he participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz.
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Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vine Deloria
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 25-32
Description
Argues that the Alcatraz event was mainly a civil rights movement protest against the very oppressive conditions faced by Native Americans, somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1957 was for the African-American population.
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American Indian Placemaking on Alcatraz, 1969-1971
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Rundstrom
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 189-212
Description
Discussion of "place" being incorporated into people as in Leslie Marmon Silko's and N. Scott Momaday's novels. Alcatraz, for example, became a "place of cultural emergence" though the process of reciprocal approriation.
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Black Hawk's "An Autobiography": The Production and Use of an "Indian" Voice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Wallace
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 481-494
Description
Literary criticism article which examines Black Hawk: An Autobiography and argues that in addition to its value as a historical text, it should also be considered as an act of literary resistance against the narratives imposed on Indigenous peoples by mainstream society.
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The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ward Churchill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 253-300
Description
Argues that the occupation of Alcatraz Island started a process of Government repression of Indigenous activists that was without parallel in its virulence and lethal effects.
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Chief Killer and a New Reality: Narration and Description in Fort Marion Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joyce M. Szabo
American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1994, pp. 50-57
Description
Overview of drawings by Fort Marion artist, Chief Killer.
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Contact, Mediation, and Myth in Early Latin American Literatures
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanne van der Woude
Early American Literature, vol. 48, no. 1, 2013, pp. 201-212
Description
Book review essay of:Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Rolena Adorno.Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico by Mónica Díaz.On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru by Sabine MacCormack.The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca by Yanna Yannakakis.
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Crowns of Honor Sacred Laws of Eagle-Feather War Bonnets and Repatriating the Icon of the Great Plains
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leo Killsback
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, Winter, 2013, pp. 1-23
Description
Talks about the importance of war bonnets to the Cheyenne and Lakota nations in both a cultural and spiritual context.
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Decolonize Wall Street!: Situating Indigenous Critiques of the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Miranda J. Brady
Derek Antoine
American Communication Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, Special Issue, 2013, pp. 1-10
Description
Examines a social movement that challenges the growing socio-economic inequality and institutional policies that have historically worked to disenfranchise Indigenous groups.
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The Eagles I Fed Who Did Not Love Me
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Woody Kipp
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 213-232
Description
Expresses hopes that the Alcatraz occupation created a consciousness that would reach into the lives of Native American youth and perhaps white Americans.
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Gender Status Decline, Resistance, and Accommodation among Female Neophytes in the Missions of California: A San Gabriel Case Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward D. Castillo
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 67-93
Description
Focuses on the Kumivit, or Gabrielino, Indians and documents the resistance and responses of women to the new colonial order. The time period covered for this topic includes Toypurina’s revolt and Bartolomea’s bitter recollections of the destruction of her culture.
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Gerald Vizenor and His Heirs of Columbus: A Postmodern Quest for More Discourse
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barry E. Laga
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 71-86
Description
Literary criticism article that examines the social and historical commentary contained in Vizenor’s novel, Heirs of Columbus, and how that commentary works to dismantle mainstream realities.
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Imperial Literacy and Indigenous Rights: Tracing Transoceanic Circuits of a Modern Discourse
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracey Banivanua Mar
Aboriginal History, vol. 37, 2013, pp. 1-28
Description
Overview of colonization and the protests by the Indigenous people in Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia.
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Linking Arms Together: Multicultural Constitutionalism in a North American Indigenous Vision of Law and Peace
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Williams
California Law Review, vol. 82, no. 4, July 1994, pp. 981-1049
Description
Describes how the five Confederated Tribes of the Iroquois attempted intercultural communication and encounters between the early sixteenth through late eighteenth centuries with Europeans.
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Matnm Tel-Mi'kmawi: I'm Fighting For My Mi'kmaw Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pamela D. Palmater
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, pp. 147-167
Description
Author chronicles her struggles with a system that she feels marginalizes aboriginal women.
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The (Re)Introduction of Restorative Justice in Kahnawake: "Beyond Indigenization"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Haslip
Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 9, no. 1, March 2002
Description
Looks at a contemporary restorative justice process based on traditional Iroquois or Six Nations principles of conflict resolution.
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Reflections of an AIM Activist: Has It All Been Worth It?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karren Baird-Olson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 233-252
Description
Argues that the American Indian Movement (AIM) was a main factor in bringing rapid change and empowerment to many Aboriginal people and communities.
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Remembering the Thirty-Eight: Abraham Lincoln, the Dakota, and the U.S. War on Barbarism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Martínez
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 28, no. 2, Fall, 2013, pp. 5-29
Description
Discusses the president's political motivations for allowing the mass execution of prisoners of war who had not been given a proper trial.
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Rhoda Strong Lowry: The Swamp Queen of Scuffletown
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eneida Sanderson Pugh
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, 2002, pp. 67-81
Description
Examines the life of Rhoda Strong Lowry, a Native American women operating on the fringes of the U.S. Civil War, who directed her energies to the protection of her husband, family and community.
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September 11 and America's War on Terrorism: A New Manifest Destiny?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John A. Wickham
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, Winter, pp. 116-144
Description
Author compares President Bush and the American state’s response to 9/11 to 19th century foreign and domestic policies under the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
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Southern Paiute Letters: A Consideration of the Applications of Literacy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martha C. Knack
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1-24
Description
Examines reading and writing as separate skills; how writing enables communication to travel up the hierarchy and how historically the Southern Paiutes historically used their new writing abilities.
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To Guard Against Invading Indians: Struggling for Native Community in the Southeast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zug G. Standing Bear
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 301-320
Description
Examines the Deer Clan and those who were attempting to create a sense of community and identity in southeastern United States.
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