The Way to Rainy Mountain

N. Scott Momaday

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Works Cited

 

Videos about Native American Treaties

Indigenous Research Topics

Tribal Regalia and Cultural Appropriation

• Model Quannah Chasinghorse
• Honoring Tradition And Fighting Cultural Appropriation
• Understanding Cultural Appropriation
• Native by Design

Hair

• "Why Native American Inmates Can't Wear Their Hair Long in Alabama"

Media Representation

• NYT - Native American Actors Work to Overcome Bias 
• Seattle Times - Casting Native American Actors in Native Roles
• See "Indigenous Representation in Media" (column to the right ->)

Native American Mascots

• Controversial Mascots viewpoints page
• SIRS Mascot Topic page
• Gale Mascot Topic Page
• National Congress of American Indians
• American Psychological Association
• “Where Pride Meets Prejudice” NCAA article
• In Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports
• "From Redmen to Minutemen: The University of Massachusetts and Its Mascot." Historical Journal of Massachusetts

Preserving Tribal Languages

• 'Race Against Time': Fight to save Native American languages
• Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act (Public Law 109-394) 
• Administration for Native Americans: Native Languages
• "Comanche Nation College Tries to Rescue a Lost Tribal Language"
• "Coining New Words Key to Revitalizing Native American Languages"
• NCAI: Survival of American Indian Languages
• The Code That Couldn't Be Broken
• Teaching the Kiowa Language

 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

• Opposing Viewpoints MMIWG topic page
• MMIWG2S 
• Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
• UBC Guide to Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

Native American Boarding Schools

• US Boarding Schools for Native American Children
• Indian Boarding Schools' Traumatic Legacy, And The Fight To Get Native Ancestors Back
• "Majority of Americans don't learn about Indian boarding schools ..." Native News Online
• Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

Native American Voting Rights Act

• Voting Laws viewpoint page
• SIRS topic page
• “The State of Native American Voting Rights” 
• H.R.1694 - Native American Voting Rights Act of 2019
• “Native Americans Weren’t Guaranteed the Right to Vote in Every State Until 1962” 
• “What Keeps Native Americans From Voting--and What Could Change This” 

Indian Child Welfare Act

• Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) 
• "A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act"
• “The Supreme Court Could Save Tribal Sovereignty—or Demolish It”
• “The Supreme Court must uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act”
• “Both Sides Ask Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Indian Child Welfare Act”
• “Petitions Filed to Have U.S. Supreme Court Decide on Indian Child Welfare Act Constitutionality”

Land Back Movement

• What is Land Back?

• Native Land

• Seeding Sovereignty

Dakota Access Pipeline (Standing Rock)

• SIRS pipelines viewpoints page
• Gale Pipelines page
• Indigenous Peoples land rights viewpoints page
• SIRS article search results
• Gale article search results
• “Standing Rock Asks Court to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline as Company Plans to Double Capacity” by Phil McKenna, 8/20/19

Bears Ears National Monument

• Native American Ties to the Bears Ears
• Threats to the Bears Ears
• "BATTLE FOR: THE AMERICAN WEST: THE NEW PUSH TO CUT BACK PROTECTED LANDS IS FUELING A DISPUTE ROOTED IN OUR HISTORY AND CULTURE. THE QUESTION: WHOSE LAND IS IT?" National Geographic

Native American Studies in Schools

• "Push for Native American curriculum in schools makes gains" NPR

Politics

• U.S. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR: Secretary Deb Haaland

• Historic Number of Native Americans Elected to U.S. Congress

Native American Treaties Discussion

Historical Texts:

• “The Cherokee Removal Through the Eyes of a Private Soldier” 
• Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Speech and background info
• Shawnee Chief Tecumseh’s Address to General William Henry Harrison
• President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress
• Tribal Treaties Database
• National Archives: American Indian Treaties

Modern Texts:

• Senator refusing to swear oath to the Queen 8/1/2022 
• Pope offers apology to Canada's Indigenous People
• Indegenous People want an apology from US
• Movement to re-Indigenize Yellowstone
• NYT: Native American Movement Grows
• BLM to work with Tribes to manage public lands
• Oklahoma court case
• Minnesota case
• Restoring Native American Lands
• Why Native Tribes are Buying Back Land 
• What if all Native treaties were upheld?
• What it would mean if the U.S. kept it's promises

Occupation of Alcatraz Island

• "We Hold the Rock - Alcatraz Island  (U.S. National Park Service)"
• "Native American Activists Occupy Alcatraz Island, 45 Years Ago"
• "Native American Activism: Alcatraz and the Red Power Movement"
• "Letter Concerning the Confederation of American Indian Nations"