U & D

a space for the exploration of LD291 and its implementation

What the Indians ate – or eat?

May 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments

What the Indians ate is the title of an article in the current (June, 2009) issue of Down East magazine. The first page was slipped mysteriously into my mailbox today and, luckily, I had the perseverance to track that gift down. The article is taken from a new book, Notes on a Lost Flute: A [...]

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Tags: Pedagogy · People

Resources for Land Tenure Curricula

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Resources come in surprising places. I would not have thought that the federal government and an independent Native organization could come together smoothly in providing quality, and needed, resources.
Then today I received my free copy of Lessons of Our Land, the k-college curriculum created by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation and the Tribal Education Departments [...]

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Kappler’s Indian Affairs

September 21st, 2008 · No Comments

I have just today run across this digital archive of Indian treaties, laws and court decisions (up to 1970): http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/index.htm.  There is a pretty good index, but I find browsing through a set of summaries to be fascinating. For example, take a minute to scan down through this encapsulation of federal definition and jurisdiction relating [...]

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Tags: Sovereignty