The Association of American Indian Affairs Archives

The Association of American Indian Affairs Archives
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Total Pages:
Release: 1851
Genre: Indians of North America
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Since its founding in 1922, the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA) has promoted the rights of more than 300 Native American tribes throughout the United States. Over the course of its history, the Association has stood on the forefront of battles for Native American rights, from protection of land and water resources and the right of self-determination to the right to worship freely and to secure equal educational opportunity for their children. The work of the Association has embraced eight areas of concern to Native Americans: education, economic development, health and sanitation, land tenure, irrigation, preservation of culture and religion, tribal sovereignty, and youth. Among its major achievements was its role as catalyst for the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. The Association on American Indian Affairs Archives document the role of this important twentieth-century Native American advocacy organization. This microfilm edition of the Archives is filmed from the holdings of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University. The Archives, which include materials dating from 1922 to 1983, are one of the most comprehensive research collections on the struggles of Native Americans in the twentieth century. Correspondence, minutes, reports, articles, clippings, and other printed materials provide a wealth of valuable information for researchers. Most of the records are unique and cannot be found in any other collection. To cite just one example, rare materials from 1920s and 1930s illuminate early efforts in the pursuit of Native American rights, which in turn influenced many later initiatives.

The Women's National Indian Association

The Women's National Indian Association
Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0826355641

The Women’s National Indian Association, formed in response to the chronic conflict and corruption that plagued relations between American Indians and the U.S. government, has been all but forgotten since it was disbanded in 1951. Mathes’s edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group. The WNIA was formed in 1879 in reaction to the prospect of opening Oklahoma Indian Territory to white settlement. A powerful network of upper- and middle-class friends and associates, the group soon expanded its mission beyond prayer and philanthropy as the women participated in political protest and organized successful petition drives that focused on securing civil and political rights for American Indians. In addition to discussing the association’s history, the contributors to this book evaluate its legacies, both in the lives of Indian families and in the evolution of federal Indian policy. Their work reveals the complicated regional variations in reform and the complex nature of Anglo women’s relationships with indigenous people.

American Indian

American Indian
Author: Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc
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Total Pages: 48
Release: 1950
Genre: Indians of North America
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American Indian Policy and American Reform

American Indian Policy and American Reform
Author: Christine Bolt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2023-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000996484

First published in 1987, American Indian Policy and American Reform examines key aspects of American Indian policy and reform in the context of American ethnic problems and traditions of reform. The first four chapters provide a chronological survey discussing racial attitudes, economic issues, the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, missionary and reformer involvement with government policy, the political interaction of Indians and whites, and other continuing differences between the two races. The second part of the book examines important themes which illuminate the difficulties of the assimilation campaign. In a series of case studies, Prof. Bolt explores Indian-black-white relations in the South and Indian Territory, American anthropologists and American Indians, Indian education from colonial times to the 20th century, Indian women, urban Indians since the Second World War and Indian political protest groups. This book will be of interest to students of American history, ‘minority’ history and race relations.

Native American Organizations

Native American Organizations
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230631226

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: American Indian Higher Education Consortium, American Indian Movement, Pan-Indianism, American Indian Library Association, Association on American Indian Affairs, Original Keetoowah Society, National Indian Youth Council, Inter-Tribal Environmental Council, Keetoowah Nighthawk Society, Indian Health Service, United Indians of All Tribes, National Congress of American Indians, Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, Cherokee heritage groups, Tree of Peace Society, Tribal Council, Tribal colleges and universities, Algonquian Confederacy of the Quinnipiac Tribal Council, Cherokee Preservation Foundation, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, Cheyenne military societies, Native American Rights Fund, American Indian College Fund, Tribal College Librarians Institute, Alaska Federation of Natives, National Indian Education Association, American Indian Defense Association, Society of American Indians, Koitsenko, Anishinaabe tribal political organizations, Phi Sigma Nu, Literacy is Empowering Project, Indian Rights Association, American Indian Dance Theatre, Guilford Native American Association, UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., Traditional Circle of Indian Elders & Youth, Sequoyah Research Center, Cradleboard Teaching Project, American Indian Scouting Association, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission, Navajo AIDS Network, Tohono O'Odham Ki: Ki Association, Little Priest Tribal College, Metrolina Native American Association, North American Indian Center of Boston, Women's National Indian Association, American Indians into Psychology, Cherokee Artists Association, Cherokee Nation Warriors Society, White Earth Land Recovery Project, Sitting Bull College, Northern California Indian Development Council, Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project, First Nations Composer Initiative, .