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Who Stole Native American Studies?

Wicazo Sa Review, 1997
ofordays in March 1970, American Indian scholars met at the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, thousands of miles away from the homelands of the western Indians who dominated the meeting. This convocation brought together Native scholars, professional people, artists, and traditional historians
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Contemporary Native American Projects: Four Studies

2018
We discuss the distinct cultural and philosophical context for the new architecture that has emerged on Native lands within the USA during the past two decades. As individual tribes can now employ their own architects and contractors, a more sophisticated design sensibility has emerged that seeks to reconcile form and content in a manner that is ...
Joy Monice Malnar, Frank Vodvarka
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The American Native Press and American Indian Studies

Wicazo Sa Review, 1986
The advent of a new decade in higher education usually spurs policymakers to evaluate programs and policies and to make plans and projections for the coming decade. So it was with American Indian studies at the advent of the eighties. Evaluation actually began in the late seventies, and in 1980 the fourth annual Conference on Contemporary American ...
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5. Native American literary studies

2018
During the time of the Red Power movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, Native American students brought their visions of justice to college campuses to create what they began to describe as “Native American Studies.” Pressuring universities to accept a more diverse student body, Native scholars demanded that universities allow the production of ...
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Native American Studies: A Personal Overview

Wicazo Sa Review, 1986
According to a recent national survey there are approximately 105 Native American Studies (NAS) programs on various university and college campuses throughout the United States (see "Issues for the Future of American Indian Studies" by Charlotte Heth and Susan Guyette, 1985, UCLA).
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Native American Studies: A Utah Perspective

Wicazo Sa Review, 1986
Utah has missed an opportunity to foster, support, or lead out with exemplary Native American Studies programs within its higher education network. Considering the intertwined religious and political roots of the establishment of the state, the overall commitment to the American Indians as a whole has not been a major priority issue.
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Organizing Native American and Indigenous Studies

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2008
For me, entering this profession involved the broader context of native american and indigenous studies as well as native American literary studies. My scholarship, pedagogy, and professional connections have relied on a synergy between texts as Native authors have crafted them and the social, political, and experiential contexts from which those ...
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Native American studies: a place of community

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2017
Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico in the USA aims to practice a pedagogy of community, which facilitates students’ engagement and contribution to community. I first examine Native American Studies’ growth in the USA toward nurturing a collective and intellectual learning community.
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Anthropological Studies of Native American Place Naming

American Indian Quarterly, 1997
ion in place naming was "a cultural index to some degree" with more "evolved" cultures displaying a higher level of abstraction (1922:182). Although his arguments on this point are sketchy and unconvincing, they represent an early attempt to develop a cross-cultural theory of place-naming.
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Study Challenges Views on Alcohol Consumption in Native Americans

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2016
But phone survey data may not have revealed the full picture.
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