The prevailing argument for school choice in metropolitan cities has been that children from economically disadvantaged communities need opportunities to access better quality schools than the traditional public schools assigned to them based on their address. However, as these cities experience gentrification, more economically advantaged parents…

Agricultural and natural resource managers face complex problems that involve thinking across multiple disciplines, particularly in North America where professionals often work in multi-use landscapes containing both private and public lands. Here we describe a multidisciplinary, conflictbased experiential learning course we developed to prepare…

The article presents analysis of the epistemological, pedagogical and methodological processes and dilemmas that unfolded during our efforts to transform the conceptions and understandings of our participants' thinking about ways of managing land-related conflicts. The paper reports our evaluation of the thinking and perspectives that guided our…

Within the last half century, several communities in Boki Land have engaged in violent conflicts as a result of disputes over portions of land that have claimed many lives, and left many more injured. The Boki people, like most rural African peoples, depend largely on the land for their livelihood and economic development. Thus, any encroachment…

In Native American literary studies today there is a gap between the variety of criticism being produced and the metacritical debate about what Native literary criticism should look like. A review of recent issues of "Studies in American Indian Literatures", for example, will discover a wide variety of approaches, some relating literary…

Heir property is land held communally by family members of a landowner who has died intestate. Because this informal arrangement does not fit neatly into the individualist-centered, integrated property rights system of the United States, it is viewed by most as a hindrance to economic development and capitalism. We present an alternative framework…

Detailing the struggle between American Indians (Cherokees) and white settlers over a piece of land, known as Lovely's Purchase, lying north of the Arkansas River and extending west to the Verdigris River, this article documents attempts made by various whites to treat the Cherokee equitably. (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)

Emphasizing the fact that the Federal government has failed to recognize the inherent differences of the Hopi and Navajo lifestyles, this study examines the century-old Navajo-Hopi American Indian land dispute; the literature on forced removal of peoples; multi-dimensional stressors associated with the forced relocation of 15 Navajo families; and…

Repeated encroachments by Mormons and Navajos upon Arizona lands traditionally inhabited by the Hopi American Indians occasioned the Executive Order of December 16, 1882 and creation of the Executive Order Reservation. However, assignment of lands was not limited to the Hopi, for the Order stated that the lands should be "set apart for the…

Reviews controversies concerning celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus' landing in America. Summarizes historians' perspectives concerning that event, including the following: (1) who was first; (2) discovery or invasion; (3) native population numbers; (4) how so few conquered so many; (5) Columbus and slavery; and (6) Columbus and…

Analysis of the spatial organization of Northeastern Arizona and the Navajo-Hopi land dispute affords the geographer ample opportunity to investigate the concepts of: cultural confrontation; spatial competition; the politics of enclaves and exclaves; the herding vs the farming economy; cross-cultural perceptions of boundaries and territories; the…

Examines two questions concerning the European conquest of Latin America: (1) how did developed, powerful indigenous cultures of the ancient Mexicans and Peruvians crumble so easily before the invaders; and (2) why have the post-Colonial republics of the Americas failed to improve the lives of their Indian citizens? (JB)