This study emerges from a professional development workshop the authors conducted with elementary, middle, and high school teachers. The article highlights of responses of workshop participants, particularly their response that the law was about assimilation, in the context of "The General Allotment Act of 1887" and the Hopi Indian…

Detailing the history of legal counsel for the Navajo Nation, this article illustrates the increasing importance of the Nation's legal counsel to the future of the Navajo. (JC)

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)

Inconsistent government policies towards American Indian landholdings have created jurisdictional chaos on South Dakota's Sioux reservations. Although the Sioux had occupied the area of South Dakota since the seventeenth century, white settlers began to move into the territory in the 1840's. Despite treaties, the federal government began…

Describing events and legislation leading up to the removal of the Cherokee Nation from its eastern homelands to Oklahoma, this article details the Federal Government's role in what is termed the "cultural genocide" of the Cherokee Nation. (JC)

The Bureau of Indian Affairs' responsibility in protecting the interests of the American Indians is explained. (FF)

Reports the dispute between the Navajo and Hopi Indian nations concerning the two-million-acre Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area, a box-shaped plot set entirely inside the Navajo reservation. (JM)

Written as a tribute to American Indian law enforcement officers and the Indian Criminal Justice System, this monographh details the history of the legislative, judicial, financial, and cultural problems associated with the development of Indian law enforcement. Citing numerous court cases, pieces of legislation, and individual and organizational…

Summarizes observations made by the author who was first, during 1963-1966, resident director of the New York University--Virgin Islands Project in Education, and then, since 1969, Assistant Dean, School of Education, at Northern Arizona University, located virtually on the doorstep of the Navajo Indian Reservation. (JM)

Outlines the relationship the American Indian has had with the United States Government and attempts to give the reader a more accurate picture of the Indian. (Author/RK)

The Washington Report currently identifies, analyzes and tracks legislation, administrative agencies' regulations and Supreme Court decisions relating to Indian affairs. (Author)

The preliminary conclusions and recommendations of each of the 11 AIPRC (American Indian Policy Review Commission) Task Forces are given. (NQ)

Describes the fight of the Menominees of Wisconsin, with intense Indian support across the country, against termination--a policy which attempted to force Indian assimilation; the Menominee restoration bill is seen as a major test of whether the political system can correct abuses of Indian rights. (Author/JM)

Overviews the history of federal Indian educational policy, examines existing legislation, presents a legal theory for bicultural education, and discusses one Indian community's experience with participation in education, that of the Minnesota Chippewa in Cass Lake, Minnesota, on the Leech Lake Reservation. (Author/JM)