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Indian Identity, Choice and Change: What Do You Choose?

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Indian Country Today
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Indigenous individuals and nations are faced with choices about identity, change and cultural continuity. The choices are not just mere faddish expressions but are deep decisions about culture, community, philosophy and personal and national futures. Many indigenous communities are divided over issues of personal identity, cultural and religious values, forms of government, and relations with the nation state. Such divisions are not endemic to indigenous nations, but they are reflections of the forced external colonial value systems and identities, as well as pragmatic choices about changing political, economic and cultural relations within the present-day world...

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Champagne, Duane. "Indian Identity, Choice and Change: What Do You Choose? " Indian Country Today, September 28, 2012. Article. (https://ictnews.org/archive/indian-identity-choice-and-change-what-do-you-choose accessed July 21, 2023)

Tim Giago: Was the Indian Reorganization Act good or bad?

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It was 75 years ago on June 18, 1934 when the Indian Reorganization Act became the law of the land. On the 50th anniversary of the IRA, a conference was held at Sun Valley, Idaho to talk about the good and the bad of the Act. On the 75th birthday of the Act, there was nothing but silence. Has Indian Country forgotten the significance of the IRA?

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Giago,Tim. "Tim Giago: Was the Indian Reorganization Act good or bad?" Indianz.com. Monday, January 28, 2013. Article. (http://www.indianz.com/News/2013/008307.asp, accessed January 28, 2013)

Native American Lands and the Supreme Court

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C-SPAN Video Library
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Tribal judge and legal scholar Angela Riley (Citizen Potawatomi) spoke in the U.S. Supreme Court chamber about the history of the Supreme Court and Native American lands. The lecture was one in a series hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society on the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and property rights‚ Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg introduced Professor Riley...

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Riley, Angela. "Native American Lands and the Supreme Court." Supreme Court Historical Society on the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and property rights, Supreme Court Historical Society. Washington, DC. Nov 14, 2012. Presentation. (https://www.c-span.org/video/?309427-1/native-american-lands-supreme-court, accessed August 21, 2013) 

Peterson Zah: Finally We Are Growing Our Own

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The Library Channel
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Recorded on March 25, 2010, in this lecture Dr. Peterson Zah discusses the history of Native American education, Navajo education, and his involvement recruiting Native American students to attend college. He also stresses the importance of higher education to the success of Native nations' efforts to rebuild their nations, build robust economies, and achieve self-sufficiency.

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Native Nations
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Zah, Peterson. "Finally We Are Growing Our Own." The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community, Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona. March 25, 2010. Presentation. (https://vimeo.com/17524438, accessed September 20, 2016)

Bringing Our Children Home: An Introduction to the Indian Child Welfare Act

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Mad Genius, Inc.
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This six-minute trailer introduces viewers to a documentary film (currently in development) that examines the impact of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). The documentary is the product of an ongoing collaboration between the Mississippi Courts, Child Welfare Agency, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and various National Resource Centers which specifically focus their expertise on educating non-tribal entities on the Indian Child Welfare Act and other issues related to Native American values. The trailer was developed by the Mississippi Administrative Office of Courts/Court Improvement Program in consultation with the National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues and the National Resource Center for Tribes as an ICWA educational resource for judges, courts, child welfare, and judicial educators. The full-length documentary will be available in late 2013. 

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Mad Genius, Inc. "Bringing Our Children Home: An Introduction to the Indian Child Welfare Act." Developed by the Mississippi Administrative Office of Courts/Court Improvement Program in consultation with the National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues and the National Resource Center for Tribes. Ridgeland, Mississippi. 2013. Film. (http://courts.ms.gov/trialcourts/youthcourt/webhelp/videos/yc_process/ic..., accessed March 25, 3013)

An Essay on the Federal Origins of Disenrollment

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Disenrollment is not indigenous to Native America. It is a creature of the United States.

The origins of disenrollment are traced to the United States’ paternalistic assimilation policies of the 1930s. In 1934 the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Reorganization Act (“IRA”), wherein the federal government took an extremely active role in framing tribal membership rules. The IRA contained a definition of who would be recognized as an indigenous person by the federal government: The individual must be a descendant of a member residing on any reservation as of June 1, 1934, or a person “of one-half or more Indian Blood.” 25 U.S.C. § 476...

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Galanda, Gabe. An Essay on the Federal Origins of Disenrollment. Galanda Broadman. Seattle, Washington. March 6, 2014. Opinion. (http://www.galandabroadman.com/blog/2014/03/an-essay-on-the-federal..., accessed March 1, 2023)