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American Indian Studies' Featured Book

On Indian Ground by Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox

American Indian Studies' Featured Book is On Indian Ground: The Southwest by Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox.

On Indian Ground: The Southwest is one of ten regionally focused texts that explores American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education in depth. The text is designed to be used by educators of native youth and emphasizes best practices found throughout the state. This book looks at the history of Indian education within the southwestern states. The authors also analyze education policy and tribal education departments to highlight early childhood education, gifted and talented educational practice, parental involvement, language revitalization, counseling, and research. These chapters expose cross-cutting themes of sustainability, historical bias, economic development, health and wellness, and cultural competence.

Author
Urban Indians, People of Color and the Albuquerque Police Department By Adrienne Jean King
Indians and criminal justice administration: The failure of the criminal justice system for the American Indian By Michael Guifoyle
The Adaptation of Complications of the Indian Reorganization Act Tribal Governments By John Shiffer
An Examination of Prejudice in Federal Indian Liquor Prohibition: "Matter of Heff" as a Case Study By Robert Stafford
The Psychotherapeutic Effects of American Indian Traditions Such as Singing, Drumming, Dancing, and Storytelling By Susan Georgina Stevens
Intergenerational Programs in Native American Communities By Darlene Franklin
Native American Leadership Among American Indian Youth By Debi Allison Nalwood
I Relate to the Sense of Not Belonging: Native American Perspectives of Homelessness By Margaret Ann Mortensen Vaughan
Political Readjustment of Lumbee Indian veterans in Robeson County. North Carolina, 1941--1998 By Grover K. Locklear
Globalization and the Corporate Sponsorship of Navajo Education: New perspective on assimilation By Richard Parker Juliani
Diabetes and Native Americans: The twentieth century small pox By Michelle Denice Sieverston
Contemporary Indian Allotment: Appropriating an assimilationist policy By Meghan Claire Kensler
Warfare: An "Undesirable Necessity" in Navajo Life By Brent C. Spicer
Oral Stories of Three Generations of Women of Mexican Descent from South Texas By Deborah Mata
The Calico Winter Count, 1825--1877: An ethnohistorical analysis By Wilhelm Meya
Defining Tribal History: A case study of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum By Kathryn Agnes Askins
A Study of Okinawan Language Shift and Ideology By Yuko Matsuno
Coyote: A Trickster in the New World By Shamsad Mortuza
Tribal and Individual American Indian Trust Funds: Who's in Charge? By Tracey Suzanne Cook
Living with Arthritis: An explatoratory study of health related quality of life assessment of Yoeme Elders By Rebecca Akins
Sovereignty and Austerity By John Charles E. Barrett
Native American Oral Traditions in Film By Vivienne Ibbett
The Legislation of Identity: "I'll be damned if I let these people take my family's heritage away with the stroke of a pen" By Alison Meadow
Teachers of American Indian Preschool Students Diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect: Training, Experience, and Recommendations By Jennifer Montgomery
Hopi Hova: Anthropological Assumptions of Gendered Otherness in Native American Societies By Robert Christopher Basaldu
Songs of Shiprock Fair By Luci Tapahonso
Spirit in the Stone: A Handbook of Southwestern Indian Animal Carvings and Beliefs By Mark Bahti
Till Death Do Us Part: Analyzing the Relationship Between Native American Languages, Bilingual Education and Tribal Sovereignty By Lisa Rachelle Williams
The United States Census: The racialization of Indian identity and its impact on self determination By Robyn Loretta Kline
Object Categorization According to Navajo Classificatory Verbs of the Si-perfective Neuter Verb Form: A survey of Ten Navajo Language Speakers By Leesa Johnson
"Whales, Guns, and Money?" How Commercial and Ideological Considerations Influenced the Seattle Times Portrayal of the Makah Whale Hunt By Richard William Gorman, Jr.
Native Writers and the World: Explorations of Oral and Written Forms Through Interview and Analysis By Darren DeMonsi
Timnakni Timat (Writing From the Heart): Sahaptin discourse sand text in the speaker writing of Xiluxin By Phillip E. Cash Cash
Cultural Mentoring for American Indian Students: The power of the drum and Southern Plains social songs in a southern Arizona classroom By Joseph Martin
The Marketing Experiences of Three Southwest Indian Silversmiths By Sarah Seronde
Native Americans in Social Studies Curriculum: An Alabama case study By Denise Eileen Barragan
Type 2 Diabetes Education: Cultural relevance to Native Americans in Tucson By Samantha Martin
Truth Against Tradition: The Origins and Meanings of the Indian Motif in The Boy Scouts of America By Jeffery Hemer
A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings By Mark Bahti, Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe
Through the Eye of the Needle : A Māori Elder Remembers By Mary Katharine Duffié
We Know Who the Real Indian Are - Animal Rights Groups, Racial Stereotyping, and Racism in Rhetoric and Action in the Makah Whaling Controversy By Michael Two Horses
Woven Lives, Weavers' Voices: A family of Diné weavers speak about Diné textiles By Cathy Notarnicola
Rend Your Hearts and Not Your Garments: Native American Christian Testimonies By Mary Anne Stack
Glacier National Park on Blackfoot Territory: The assertion of rights on traditional lands By Tarissa L. Spoonhunter
The Politics of Disease: Imperial Medicine and the American Indian, 1797--1871 By J. Diane Pearson
Living Treasures: Preservation of the Traditional Artistry and Craftmanship of American Indian -- With an Introduction By Mayuko Sasanuma Bauman
Genetic Analysis on Native Identity and Tribal Memberships: The political & ethical implications for Native People By Jacquetta Swift
Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law By K. Tsianina Lomawaima, David Eugene Wilkins
Do Native American and Hispanic Women Maintain Their Cultural Identity in an Interracial Marriage? By Sylvia Guadalupe Munoz
American Indians and the Urban Experience By Joy Harjo, Susan Lobo, & more