American Indian Nations Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

by Horse Capture, George; Champagne, Duane; Jackson, Chandler C.; Capture, George Horse; Nighthorse Campbell, Senator Ben; Harjo, Suzanne Shown; Greymorning, Stephen; Shield, James Parker; Gardner, Ray; Snipp, C Matthew; Penney, David; Henry, Jim Pepper; Tho

• ISBN13: 9780759110946
• ISBN10: 0759110948
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-13
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

An edited collection of papers presented at a 2005 conference by a virtual Who's Who of Native American scholars, activists, and community leaders.

Table of Contents

Opening keynote address : activating Indians into national politics	p. 1
Activism : time to change : Native American references in sports	p. 9
What's in a label? : Native American identity and the rise of a tradition of racism	p. 22
Tribal nationalism : the concept of governmental recognition of tribes and the Little Shell Chippewa tribe	p. 29
The Chinook nation and its struggle for federal recognition	p. 35
An overview of Indian populations	p. 38
Native art	p. 51
Challenges in managing culturally sensitive collections at the National Museum of the American Indian	p. 59
Repatriation in the twenty-first century : are we still fighting the skull wars?	p. 66
Today's American Indian tribes and their museums	p. 70
Indian education : state and federal	p. 85
What can universities contribute to indigenous language immersion programs? : a case study from Southern California	p. 99
Observations on a tribal language revitalization program	p. 105
Since Lewis and Clark : are tribal colleges meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century?	p. 112
American Indian issues for the next fifty years	p. 123
The rise and fall of Native American studies in the United States	p. 129
Native news : "somehow"	p. 151
Press coverage of American Indian issues	p. 157
Voting rights in Indian country	p. 167
Federal Indian policy in the twenty-first century	p. 187
An overview and patterns in federal Indian law	p. 210
As long as the water flows : a century of Blackfeet water lost from the St. Mary Canal and the Milk River drainage	p. 227
How the land was taken : the legacy of the Lewis and Clark expedition for native nations	p. 240
Concluding keynote address : from battlefields to boardrooms : a rich complexity of enduring pride and new achievements	p. 280
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