Describes the humanitarian founding in 1758 of the nation's first reservation--the Brotherton reservation for New Jersey's Lenni Lenape (Algonquin) Indians. The people were demoralized, sick, and decimated in numbers; and so the venture failed. In 1801 those few remaining sold the reservation and moved to join related tribes in New York. (DS)

The article explores American Indian tribal rights to tax exemptions and self-imposed taxation; general recommendations on possible tribal tax alternatives; and evaluation of the probable economic effect of taxation. (FF)

In this biographical sketch, Mary Rego, a Chippewa Cree from Rocky Boy Reservation, describes the struggle of maintaining her Indianism in the face of urban pressures. (JC)

Providing an in-depth description of events leading up to the eviction of a Catholic priest from New Mexico's Isleta Pueblo some 10 years ago, this article focuses upon American Indian cultural and religious differences. (JC)

Presenting an historical account of the Prairie Potawatomie's resistance to the General Allotment Act of 1887, this article emphasizes the Prairie Band's resiliance and underlying strength. (JC)

The conflict between American Indians and whites over land use dictated many events of early Nevada history (1847-1870). The white man's disregard for the Indian claims and culture promoted animosity. (FF)

Anthropologists have tended to look at and describe those aspects of American Indian life in the Southwest which could be termed aboriginal to the neglect of the total picture of Indian life as it actually is. (FF)

The Federal government's policies reflect its desire to make the Indian economically self-sufficient and ultimately assimilate him into the mainstream of American life, but the means used to achieve these ends failed to consider the background of the Plains Indians and the qualities of the land on which they were situated. (Author/NQ)

The education of the Fort Hall Indians is discussed. (NQ)

Four years after selection of the Western Nevada area for development as a federally-administered reclamation project, and but a single full season of farming, the Indian situation had assumed problem proportions to the Reclamation Service and the Truckee-Carson Project. (NQ)

Briefly describing the history of prison reform and the American Indian, this article argues that the "professed" humanitarian philosophy of the reformers would not have been extended to "peoples languishing in prison or sequestered on reservations had it not been expedient for the business interests of the larger society". (JC)