Category: Native Americans/First Nation

  • The Russian Creoles of Alaska as a Marginal Group Social Forces Volume 22, Number 2 (December 1943) pages 204-208 Margaret Mary Wood Russell Sage College The interest in Alaska which has been aroused by its strategic importance in the present world-war conflict is bringing to the fore as worthy of attention many problems of this…

  • Reconstructing Race The Western Historical Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring, 2003) pages 6-26 Elliott West, Distinguished Professor of History University of Arkansas, Fayetteville During what might be called the Greater Reconstruction, 1846–1877, territorial acquisitions as well as southern slavery forced a new racial dialogue between West and South, unsettled racial relations and presumptions, and…

  • Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-08-21 Carol Berry If she’d planned to tackle some of the most contentious issues in Indian country, a Mvskoke (Creek) sociologist couldn’t have done a better job. Blood quantum, lineal descent, tribal membership, federal recognition, sovereignty—all came under the scrutiny of Dwanna L.…

  • Disentangling “Race” and Indigenous Status: The Role of Ethnicity Queen’s Law Journal Volume 33, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 487 Sébastien Grammond, Dean and Associate Professor of Law University of Ottawa The notion of “race” is a social construction, discredited today by scientists as factually unsound. Individuals cannot be organized into discrete groups of people based solely…

  • Who Gets To Decide Who Is Native American? Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-08-09 Michel Martin, Host Rob Capriccioso, Washington Bureau Chief Indian Country Today Media Network Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan A controversy about identity has erupted in the race for…

  • Far Corner Of The Strange Empire Central Alberta On The Eve Of Homestead Settlement Great Plains Quarterly Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 1983 pages 92-108 William C. Wonders University of Alberta In the latter part of the nineteenth century, what is now central Alberta was a region in transition. For centuries the area had been…

  • Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-07-24 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Mestizo. Métis. Mixed bloods. Though clearly different, all these terms are used to racially classify people with Indian ancestry. However, the definitions vary—and none is wholly satisfactory.   Part of the problem is…

  • Almost White Macmillan 1963 212 pages Original Classication ID: E184.A1 B53 Source: University of Michigan via The Hathi Trust Digital Library Brewton Berry Contents Preface 1. The Myth of the Vanishing Indian 2. Where Are They? 3. Who Are They? 4. What the Whites Believe 5. What the Negro Thinks 6. Etiquette 7. How They…

  • The Powhatan Remnants melungeons.com 2001 Helen Campbell Prior to the white man’s arrival in America, a chain of separate but interacting Algonquian communities thrived along the Atlantic coastline. The Indians thrived in communities from the Chesapeake to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. When warm weather arrived, the Indians used the coastline for fishing and hunting.…

  • Indigenous Studies (INST) 370/History (HIST) 370: The Métis (Revision 2) Athabasca University Athabasca, Alberta, Canada INST 370 traces the historical development of Canada’s Métis from the period of the fur trade to the present. It includes discussion and debates about the origins of Métis nationalism, the validity of Métis land claims, and the character of…