Working In Indian Country

Author : Larry D. Keown
Publisher : LDK Associates LLC
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1936449005

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Working in Indian Country by Larry D. Keown Pdf

What is the First Step in Developing a Successful Business Relationship with any American Indian Tribe? Understanding that relationships come first and business comes second! That pearl of wisdom and others is what you will take away from Working in Indian Country. It is the definitive work on how to successfully build trust and long-term working relationships with tribal leaders. Born out of nearly twenty years of working with American Indian tribes both as a federal official and as a seminar facilitator, Larry Keown's Working in Indian Country lays a foundation for relationship building based on redefining your leadership role through understanding history, trust, respect, honor, and tribal sovereignty. There is little doubt you will experience a paradigm shift in how you currently think about working with American Indian Tribes. Whether you are a government or corporate official, work for a non-profit organization, or merely have a personal interest about Working in Indian Country, this book will serve as your bible and should always be at "arms length" in your personal library. "Every organization dealing with American Indian tribes should have a line of top- management people who are familiar with the contents of this book." Jeff Sanders Chair, Dept of Sociology et al. Montana State University - Billings

Author : Veronica E. Velarde Tiller
Publisher : Bowarrow Publishing Company
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Indian business enterprises
ISBN : UOM:39076002601552

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Tiller's Guide to Indian Country by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller Pdf

This comprehensive guide to 562 American Indian tribes includes tribal history and culture and current information on location, tribal government, services and facilities, economic activity, and tribal contact information.

Author : Jennifer Graber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190279639

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The Gods of Indian Country by Jennifer Graber Pdf

During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and racial ideologies, it was also a profound spiritual struggle. The fight over Indian Country sparked religious crises among both Natives and Americans. In The Gods of Indian Country, Jennifer Graber tells the story of the Kiowa Indians during Anglo-Americans' hundred-year effort to seize their homeland. Like Native people across the American West, Kiowas had known struggle and dislocation before. But the forces bearing down on them-soldiers, missionaries, and government officials-were unrelenting. With pressure mounting, Kiowas adapted their ritual practices in the hope that they could use sacred power to save their lands and community. Against the Kiowas stood Protestant and Catholic leaders, missionaries, and reformers who hoped to remake Indian Country. These activists saw themselves as the Indians' friends, teachers, and protectors. They also asserted the primacy of white Christian civilization and the need to transform the spiritual and material lives of Native people. When Kiowas and other Native people resisted their designs, these Christians supported policies that broke treaties and appropriated Indian lands. They argued that the gifts bestowed by Christianity and civilization outweighed the pains that accompanied the denial of freedoms, the destruction of communities, and the theft of resources. In order to secure Indian Country and control indigenous populations, Christian activists sanctified the economic and racial hierarchies of their day. The Gods of Indian Country tells a complex, fascinating-and ultimately heartbreaking-tale of the struggle for the American West.

Author : Kaighn Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Indian country (United States law)
ISBN : 0979409969

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Labor and Employment Law in Indian Country by Kaighn Smith (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Marianne O. Nielsen,Karen Jarratt-Snider
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816537815

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Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country by Marianne O. Nielsen,Karen Jarratt-Snider Pdf

"Brings Indigenous perspectives and approaches to achieving social justice, sovereignty, and self-determination"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807869994

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Reimagining Indian Country by Nicolas G. Rosenthal Pdf

For decades, most American Indians have lived in cities, not on reservations or in rural areas. Still, scholars, policymakers, and popular culture often regard Indians first as reservation peoples, living apart from non-Native Americans. In this book, Nicolas Rosenthal reorients our understanding of the experience of American Indians by tracing their migration to cities, exploring the formation of urban Indian communities, and delving into the shifting relationships between reservations and urban areas from the early twentieth century to the present. With a focus on Los Angeles, which by 1970 had more Native American inhabitants than any place outside the Navajo reservation, Reimagining Indian Country shows how cities have played a defining role in modern American Indian life and examines the evolution of Native American identity in recent decades. Rosenthal emphasizes the lived experiences of Native migrants in realms including education, labor, health, housing, and social and political activism to understand how they adapted to an urban environment, and to consider how they formed--and continue to form--new identities. Though still connected to the places where indigenous peoples have preserved their culture, Rosenthal argues that Indian identity must be understood as dynamic and fully enmeshed in modern global networks.

Author : Alvin J. Ziontz
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780295800202

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A Lawyer in Indian Country by Alvin J. Ziontz Pdf

In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation life and recounts some of the memorable legal cases that illustrate the challenges faced by individual Indians and tribes. As the senior attorney arguing U.S. v. Washington, Ziontz was a party to the historic 1974 Boldt decision that affirmed the Pacific Northwest tribes' treaty fishing rights, with ramifications for tribal rights nationwide. His work took him to reservations in Montana, Wyoming, and Minnesota, as well as Washington and Alaska, and he describes not only the work of a tribal attorney but also his personal entry into the life of Indian country. Ziontz continued to fight for tribal rights into the late 1990s, as the Makah tribe of Washington sought to resume its traditional whale hunts. Throughout his book, Ziontz traces his own path through this public history - one man's pursuit of a life built around the principles of integrity and justice.

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Penguin Paperbacks
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004260166

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Indian Country by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

After winning an eight year legal battle, here is the controversial book that powerfully sheds new light on the plight of Native Americans. Matthiessen's urgent accounts and absorbing journalistic details make it impossible to ignore the message they so eloquently proclaim.

Author : Daniel K. Richter,Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Daniel K Richter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674042728

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Facing East from Indian Country by Daniel K. Richter,Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Daniel K Richter Pdf

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States. Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native people discovered Europeans and struggled to make sense of a new world. Well into the seventeenth century, the most profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative handful of European colonists than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed. Drawing upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved out a place in a world dominated by transatlantic European empires. In 1776, however, when some of Britain's colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that had made Euro-American and Native coexistence possible. Eastern North America only ceased to be an Indian country because the revolutionaries denied the continent's first peoples a place in the nation they were creating. In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822036284156

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Examining Proposals to Create Jobs and Stimulate Indian Country Economies by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) Pdf

Author : Dean Chavers
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1433103931

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Racism in Indian Country by Dean Chavers Pdf

Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.

Author : Frederick Hoxie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101595909

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This Indian Country by Frederick Hoxie Pdf

Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The general conclusion is inescapable: Most Americans instinctively view Indians as people of the past who occupy a position outside the central narrative of American history. These three individuals were warriors, men who fought violently against American expansion, lost, and died. It’s taken as given that Native history has no particular relationship to what is conventionally presented as the story of America. Indians had a history too; but theirs was short and sad, and it ended a long time ago. In This Indian Country, Hoxie has created a bold and sweeping counter-narrative to our conventional understanding. Native American history, he argues, is also a story of political activism, its victories hard-won in courts and campaigns rather than on the battlefield. For more than two hundred years, Indian activists—some famous, many unknown beyond their own communities—have sought to bridge the distance between indigenous cultures and the republican democracy of the United States through legal and political debate. Over time their struggle defined a new language of “Indian rights” and created a vision of American Indian identity. In the process, they entered a dialogue with other activist movements, from African American civil rights to women’s rights and other progressive organizations. Hoxie weaves a powerful narrative that connects the individual to the tribe, the tribe to the nation, and the nation to broader historical processes. He asks readers to think deeply about how a country based on the values of liberty and equality managed to adapt to the complex cultural and political demands of people who refused to be overrun or ignored. As we grapple with contemporary challenges to national institutions, from inside and outside our borders, and as we reflect on the array of shifting national and cultural identities across the globe, This Indian Country provides a context and a language for understanding our present dilemmas.

Author : Terry L. Anderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498525688

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Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations by Terry L. Anderson Pdf

Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies by creating institutions that reward productivity and entrepreneurship and that establish tribal governments that are capable of providing a stable rule of law. The chapters in this volume document the involvement of indigenous people in market economies long before European contact, provide evidence on how the wealth of Indian Nations has been held hostage to bureaucratic red tape, and explains how their wealth can be unlocked through self-determination and sovereignty.

Author : Phillip H. Round
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080789947X

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Removable Type by Phillip H. Round Pdf

In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Phillip Round examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books over a two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal, regional, and political contexts for Native peoples' use of the printed word. From the northeastern woodlands to the Great Plains, Round argues, alphabetic literacy and printed books mattered greatly in the emergent, transitional cultural formations of indigenous nations threatened by European imperialism. Removable Type showcases the varied ways that Native peoples produced and utilized printed texts over time, approaching them as both opportunity and threat. Surveying this rich history, Round addresses such issues as the role of white missionaries and Christian texts in the dissemination of print culture in Indian Country, the establishment of "national" publishing houses by tribes, the production and consumption of bilingual texts, the importance of copyright in establishing Native intellectual sovereignty (and the sometimes corrosive effects of reprinting thereon), and the significance of illustrations.

Author : Gregory Younging
Publisher : Brush Education
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781550597165

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Elements of Indigenous Style by Gregory Younging Pdf

Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs to read this important new reference, and to keep it nearby while they’re working. This guide features: - Twenty-two succinct style principles. - Advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, including how to collaborate with Indigenous Peoples, when and how to seek the advice of Elders, and how to respect Indigenous Oral Traditions and Traditional Knowledge. - Terminology to use and to avoid. - Advice on specific editing issues, such as biased language, capitalization, and quoting from historical sources and archives. - Case studies of projects that illustrate best practices.