Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today

Author Russell M. Lawson

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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eBook

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Author

Russell M. Lawson

Publisher

Greenwood Publishing Group

Volume

Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9780313381454

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This essential reference examines the history, culture, and modern tribal concerns of American Indians in North America.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: People and Places.
2: Borderlands: Change, Resistance, and Assimilation.
3: Family: Traditional Kinship in the Modern World.
4: Indian City Life.
5: Indian Demographics: Definitions, Numbers, and Politics.
6: Urban Indians: The Impact of Urbanization.
7: Women: Changes in Identity and Power.
8: Economy and Work.
9: Advertising and Indian Identity.
10: American Indian Poverty in Urban Areas.
11: American Indian Poverty on Reservations.
12: Gaming and Casinos.
13: Tourist Industry: Economic and Social Costs and Benefits.
14: Tribal Economic Diversification.
15: Unemployment.
16: Learning, Literacy, and Languages.
17: Indian Colleges and Universities: Boarding Schools to Native American Studies.
18: Indian Schools: History of Schooling Models.
19: Literacy and Illiteracy.
20: Native American Deaf.
21: Public Education: Current Issues and Legislation.
22: Red English: Language and American Indian English.
23: Health: Body and Mind, Private and Public.
24: Domestic Abuse.
25: Healthcare of American Indians.
26: The Indian Child Welfare Act.
27: Orphans.
28: Psychological and Emotional Problems.
29: Sexual Issues.
30: Substance Abuse.
31: Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine.
32: Ideas and Identity: Issues of Indian Identity, Spirituality, Traditional and Modern Thought.
33: Cultural Preservation: Artifacts, Traditions, and Laws.
34: Fake Indians: Modern Day Native American Identity.
35: Historic Preservation: American Indian Inclusion and Contributions.
36: Indian Mascots.
37: Indian Ways of Knowing.
38: Indians and Civilization: Shaping Society into the Future.
39: Kennewick Man and the Controversy over Ownership of Indian Remains.
40: Missionaries and the Translation of the Bible into Indigenous Languages.
41: Modernization of American Indian Culture.
42: National Museum of the American Indian: Contributing to American Culture.
43: Native Spirituality and Christianity.
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