In her novel "Power," Linda Hogan provides readers with a close look at how separatism and syncretism, or exclusion and inclusion, are complex ideologies that lead to complex decisions. A close look at the novel reveals that the tensions and sharp dichotomies between the traditional world of the Taiga elders and the European American world,…

Making a distinction between positive and negative dependency, this article examines the traditior, of dependent relationships among American Indians. (JC)

Analyzes the career of Dennis Banks in the American Indian Movement. Describes the occurrences leading to the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and Banks' subsequent activities. (MH)

Interviews with 30 Indian homicide offenders revealed common life-history elements: poverty, early separation from family, environment of social disorganization, culture conflict, values derived from a subculture of violence, and alcohol and drug abuse. These are related to antecedents in internal colonialism suffered by American Indians. Contains…

The Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs experimented with a system of Indian farms to feed the Indians of the territory and to provide a suitable environment for their acculturation. While the experiment served to control and pacify some of the Indians, it did not convert them to the sedentary life of cultivators of the soil. (NQ)

Describes the activities of the Indian Rights Association between 1923 and 1936, with particular attention to the adverse effect of the allotment policy (division of tribal lands into individually owned plots) on the Five Civilized Tribes. (MH)

Traces the involvement of the Gros Ventres in the Canadian fur trade from 1754, when the Hudson's Bay Company began wooing Great Plains tribes to English commercial interests, to 183l, when the tribe migrated south. Describes the mutual suspicions of traders and Indians and intertribal hostilities. Contains 20 references. (SV)

A professor of American Indian literature describes the ethical dilemma she faces when teaching "Ceremony," a novel built around spiritual beliefs and activities at Laguna Pueblo. Her pedagogical duty to provide students with the most complete coherent information possible conflicts directly with respect for the secrecy surrounding…

Discusses the general unfamiliarity of American Indian prophets, religions, and spiritual beliefs and attributes that lack of knowledge to the difficulty scholars have had in examining the social and cultural systems of Indians. Sums up the role and the importance of religious movements and prophets in American Indian history. (JHZ)

Reviews sixteenth-and seventeenth-century writings by Rastell, More, Eden, Hakluyt, Peckham, Gray, Symonds, Johnson, Strachey, Purchas, Winthrop, and Cotton justifying English occupation of Indian lands through the Biblical Canaan analogy and the secular "vacant land" (vacuum domicilium) principle. Notes dissent by Crashaw, Williams, and…

The author is a Mohawk scholar who has taught in academic institutions for around eleven years. This article will explain how he believes the discipline of Native studies has been co-opted by mostly white academics and Native scholars who reflect a Euroamerican worldview in their teaching and how that has affected him as a Native academic. The…

From 1895 to 1905, assimilated Native American women played an active role in the Office of Indian Affairs' field matron program, designed to teach reservation Indian women domestic skills and Victorian standards of womanhood. Native matrons decreased after 1905 because of official fears about their commitment to assimilation policies. (SV)

The mechanisms by which the scholarly integrity of American Indian studies is pressured to conform to the colonialist, Euro-American ideals of the academy are examined. The future of American Indian studies depends on increased visibility and tribal advocacy by American Indians and recognition by non-Indians that Indians have the right and…

American Indian ethnographer and linguist Ella Cara Deloria and African American folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston did fieldwork for Franz Boas, the father of modern anthropology. Both were shocked by how American racism empowered white people's historical actions. By correcting stereotypes through their work, they reasserted the role of…