Volume 1: People and places. Borderlands: Change, resistance, and assimilation -- Family: Traditional kinship in the modern world -- Indian city life -- Indian demographics: Definitions, numbers, and politics -- Urban Indians: The impact of urbanization -- Women: Changes in identity and power -- Economy and work. Advertising and Indian identity -- American Indian poverty in urban areas -- American Indian poverty on reservations -- Gaming and casinos -- Tourist industry: Economic and social costs and benefits -- Tribal economic diversification -- Unemployment -- Indian colleges and universities: Boarding schools to Native American Studies -- Indian schools: History of schooling models -- Literacy and illiteracy -- Native American deaf -- Public education: Current issues and legislation -- Red English: Language and American Indian English -- Health: Body and mind, private and public. Domestic abuse -- Healthcare of American Indians -- The Indian Child Welfare Act -- Orphans -- Psychological and emotional problems -- Sexual issues -- Substance abuse -- Traditional healing and modern medicine -- Ideas and identity: Issues of Indian identity, spirituality, traditional and modern thought. Cultural preservation: Artifacts, traditions, and laws -- Fake Indians: Modern day Native American identity -- Historic preservation: American Indian inclusion and contributions -- Indian mascots -- Indian ways of knowing -- Indians and civilization: Shaping society into the future -- Kennewick Man and the controversy over ownership of Indian remains -- Missionaries and the translation of the Bible into indigenous languages -- Modernization of American Indian culture -- National Museum of the American Indian: Contributing to American culture -- Native spirituality and Christianity -- Repatriation -- Scientists: Supporting the development of American Indians in science -- Stereotypes.
Volume 2: Sovereignty and dependence: Rights, reservations, recognition. American Indian athletes: Individual contributions in the face of challenges -- American Indian smoke shops: Struggles for economic independence -- Bureau of Indian Affairs: A historical and contemporary mission -- Federal recognition -- Federal reservations -- Indian Civil Rights -- Indian sovereignty -- Indians and the U.S. Constitution -- Race relations -- Racism -- Reservations and college athletics: Identifying and nurturing talent -- State recognition -- Law, politics, and conflict. American Indians and the military -- Genocide -- Grassroots politics: Historical and contemporary activism -- Indian Tribal Courts and the U.S. Court System -- Indian trust lands managed by the federal government -- Indians and Congress -- Law enforcement in Indian country -- Leadership: Formal and informal leadership within tribes -- Political activism: Examining the issues -- Prisons and Indians -- Red power: The American Indian Movement -- Tribal government: Local decision-making and law enforcement -- American Indian expression. American Indian Art: Maintaining culture, tradition, and identity -- American Indian theater and performance: Political, cultural, and artistic empowerment -- Film media about Indians: Representations and misrepresentations -- Film media by Indians: Native voices -- Fraudulent Indian art -- Music: Vibrant elements of American Indian culture -- Print media by Indians: Words and ideas of American Indians -- Environment. American Indians and solid waste -- Climate change -- Environmental racism -- Nuclear waste -- Pollution -- Preserving habitats -- Tribal land use -- Canadian Indians and other aboriginal peoples. Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian government -- Biocolonialism: Genetic science and aboriginal people in Canada -- Human rights of indigenous people worldwide -- Missionaries to Canada's First Nations -- Worldwide indigenous activism.
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