AIHEC Virtual Library
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Virtual Library is a collection of resources by for and about Native Americans available online -- selected and reviewed by Tribal College librarians.
Hint: add the search term academic to find only materials from scholarly sources.
Most recent additions to the Virtual Library
Culture clash: Ojibwe identity in Erdrich’s Tracks [PDf]
Lauren Cotham, Roger Williams University
This essay focuses on the three main characters in Tracks, who illustrate the confusion and dangers of the loss of cultural heritage. The first part of the essay provides an historical overview of the Ojibwe to familiarize readers with why cultural duality has become a pervasive component of their history. The second part of the essay is a character analysis that reveals the various manifestations of this duality. "
Reason and Respect: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 1.
http://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=rr
2009-03-27 01:19:35 American Indian Treaties in the State Courts: A Guide to Treaty Citations from Opinions of the State Court Systems[PDF]
By Charles D. Bernholz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and
Robert J. Weiner Jr., Syracuse University College of Law
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=libraryscience
2009-03-27 01:19:35 Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhood [PDF]
by Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law
Argues "that Indian tribes must move beyond race and ancestry as the single most important means of determining tribal citizenship. It will not be easy for Indian tribes to move beyond race and ancestry, but it is necessary if Indian nations wish to move beyond their status as an afterthought in the American constitutional structure and develop into more complete sovereign nations. [This paper suggests] several ways for Indian tribes to alter their citizenship criteria and recommend an incremental solution based on immigration law and policy."
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=matthew_fletcher
2009-03-27 01:14:46 WILD RICE: THE MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE, A DISTINCTIVE CROP, GMOS, AND OJIBWE PERSPECTIVES [MSWord Document]
By Rachel Elena Durkee Walker, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, and
Jill Doerfler, University of Minnesota - Duluth
http://works.bepress.com/context/rachel_durkee_walker/article/1000/type/native/viewcontent
2009-03-27 01:14:46 On Miranda and Misinterpretation: A Look at the Rights of Native American Defendants
Law school honors thesis by Meredith S. Morris.
"In this paper, I posit that the Miranda ruling from the infamous case Miranda v. Arizona, when poorly applied, results in profound and blatant Eracism. The Miranda Rule was created to protect the citizens of America; it was to protect suspects from coercion during custodial interrogations. Miranda was written by economically privileged justices, to be most often applied to poor and under-privileged suspects who are often minorities and many times uneducated people who know next to nothing about the legal system in the United States. I will begin Part I by stepping back in history to look at the evolution of Miranda and the cases that followed. Next, I take a look at the 2000 Census data and address the relatively current minority population percentages. Then, in Part II, I dissect Miranda, revealing what "custody" and "interrogation", the "right to an attorney" and "valid waiver" mean according to the Supreme Court. As I scrutinize each of these four terms or concepts, I elucidate the misapplication of these ideas by exposing how they play out in cases where the suspects or defendants are Native American. For each of these concepts I attach a federal circuit court case, where each defendant appealed based on the belief that his Miranda rights were violated. In Part III of this paper, I take a deeper look at how language and culture interact and intersect with Miranda. In Part IV, I move on to discuss solutions to the problems resulting under Miranda and what some jurisdictions in the United States are doing to remedy these problems."
http://hdl.handle.net/1928/2715
2009-03-27 01:05:50 Local Knowledge & Art Historical Methodology: A New Perspective on Awa Tsireh & the San Ildefonso Easel Painting Movement [PDF]
By Aaron Fry. Article that appeared in Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas. Volume I, Spring 2008
https://repository.unm.edu/dspace/bitstream/1928/7013/1/Hemisphere_Journal_Fry.pdf
2009-03-27 01:05:50 Reflections on the 50-Year History of the IHS [PDF]
Article by CW Grim in The IHS Primary Care Provider - Dec;33(12), 2008: 391-395
http://www.ihs.gov/Publicinfo/Publications/HealthProvider/issues/PROV1208.pdf
2009-03-27 00:59:45 ’They Don’t Ask Me So I Don’t Tell Them’: Patient-Clinician Communication About Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine
Annals of Family Medicine 7:139-147 (2009)"Although high rates of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine (TM/CAM) use have been well documented, there has been less attention to the factors influencing communication between patients and their primary care clinicians about TM/CAM. Such communication can be important in anticipating possible drug-herb interactions and in assuring agreement about therapeutic plans."
http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/7/2/139
2009-03-27 00:59:45 Rezkast
A native music and video sharing site created by the Coeur d’Alene tribe and open to everyone.
http://www.rezkast.com/
2009-03-03 11:47:25 Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Women in the USA [VIDEO]
Brief video from Amnesty International about sexual violence against indigenous women, focusing on Alaska and Alaska Natives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5CtIPbbeTw
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