Research Catalog

Title

American Indian nations : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / edited by George Horse Capture, Duane Champagne, and Chandler C. Jackson.

Publication

Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Horse Capture, George P.
• Champagne, Duane
• Jackson, Chandler C., 1949-

Description

xii, 322 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Contemporary Native American communities ; [v. 21]

Uniform Title

Contemporary Native American communities [v. 21].

Subject

• Indians of North America > Social conditions > Congresses
• Indians of North America > Government relations > Congresses
• United States > Ethnic relations > Congresses
• United States > Race relations > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Great Falls, Montana, July 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: George Horse Capture -- 1. Activating Indians into national politics / Ben Nighthorse Campbell -- PART I: AMERICAN INDIAN IDENTITY -- 2. Activism: time to change: Native American references in sports / Suzan Shown Harjo -- 3. What's in a label? Native American identity and the rise of a tradition of racism / Gregory R. Campbell and S. Neyooxet Greymorning -- 4. Tribal nationalism: the concept of governmental recognition of tribes and the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe / James Parker Shield -- 5. The Chinook Nation and its struggle for federal recognition / Ray Gardner -- 6. An overview of Indian populations / C. Matthew Snipp -- PART II: ART AND EXPRESSION -- 7. Native art / David Penney -- 8. Challenges in managing culturally sensitive collections at the National Museum of the American Indian / James Pepper Henry -- 9. Repatriation in the Twenty-first century: are we still fighting the Skull Wars? / David Hurst Thomas --^
• 10. Today's American Indian tribes and their museums / Lisa J. Watt -- PART III: EDUCATION -- 11. Indian education: state and federal / Earl J. Barlow -- 12. What can universities contribute to indigenous language immersion programs? :a case study from Southern California / Margaret Field -- 13. Observations on a tribal language revitalization program / Darrell Robes Kipp -- 14. Since Lewis and Clark: are tribal colleges meeting the challenges of the Twenty-first century? / Gerald E. Gipp -- 15. American Indian issues for the next fifty years / James Shanley -- 16. The rise and fall of Native American studies in the United States / Duane Champagne -- PART IV: MEDIA -- 17. Native news: "somehow" / Mark Trahant -- 18. Press coverage of American Indian issues / Tim Johnson -- PART V: POLITICS AND LAW -- 19. Voting Rights in Indian Country / Janine B. Pease -- 20. Federal Indian Policy in the Twenty-first Century / Kevin Gover --^
• 21. An overview and patterns in federal Indian law / Walter Echo Hawk -- PART VI: THE ENVIRONMENT AND LAND -- 22. As long as the water flows: a century of Blackfeet water lost from the St. Mary Canal and the Milk River Drainage / Richmond Clow -- 23. How the land was taken: the legacy of the Lewis and Clark Expedition for Native nations / Rebecca Tsosie -- 24. From battlefields to boardrooms: a rich complexity of enduring pride and new achievements / James D. Nason.

ISBN

• 9780759110946 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0759110948 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780759110953 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0759110956 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007008441

OCLC

• 836081473
• SCSB-12387432

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library