Intended primarily for Navajo children learning to read and write the language in bilingual classrooms. This picture dictionary presents over 1,500 noun and 330 verb entries, all selected because they are words used in and around the school.
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colo…
This study investigates how shifting property regimes produced by global inequities in power affect indigenous groups' access to land. Further, it explores the various means that indigenous populations use to legitimate their claims to land in a climate of shifting property regi…
"This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Laguna Pueblo young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to…
Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultur…