A Random Survey: The Closing of the AmericanHeritage: An Essay on American Indian Studies in Higher Education

What barriers do Native American and Alaskan Native students face in higher education? How are these barriers to student success being addressed theoretically and practically? To engage these questions, this special issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal seeks to open this dialogue and create a compilation that professors and service providers may use to enhance American Indian studies and other academic curricula. Contributors to this special issue explore a broad range of educational, cultural competence, mental health, advocacy, and efficacy concerns.

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Critical Mass and Other Crucial Factors in a Developing American Indian Studies Program

The American Indian Quarterly ◽

10.1353/aiq.2001.0025 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 216-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Susan Applegate Krouse

Keyword(s):

American Indian ◽

Critical Mass ◽

American Indian Studies

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David Carey, Jr. and Allan F. Burns. Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. (Contemporary American Indian Studies.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 385. $24.95

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/108.5.1495-a ◽

2003 ◽

Keyword(s):

American Indian ◽

University Of Alabama ◽

American Indian Studies ◽

Historical Perspectives

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Why American Indian Studies Should Be Important to Palestine Solidarity

Inter/Nationalism ◽

10.5749/minnesota/9781517901417.003.0005 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Steven Salaita

Keyword(s):

American Indian ◽

Academic Freedom ◽

Indigenous Studies ◽

Faculty Governance ◽

American Indian Studies ◽

Global Concern ◽

Points Of View ◽

Donor Influence

The fifth chapter argues that American Indian and Indigenous Studies should be more central to Palestine solidarity based on the presence of Palestine as an issue of global concern. In particular, the author examines recent debates about academic freedom, faculty governance, donor influence, and the suppression of radical points of view in the context of the colonial logic by which universities are animated.

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How Palestine Became Important to American Indian Studies

Inter/Nationalism ◽

10.5749/minnesota/9781517901417.003.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Steven Salaita

Keyword(s):

American Indian ◽

American Indian Studies ◽

The Past

The first chapter explores how Palestine became a topic of interest to the field of American Indian Studies and provides an overview of how the interchange between Natives and Palestinians functioned in the past and how it operates in the present. In particular, the analysis of Palestine in American Indian studies forces us to continue exploring the cultures and geographies of Indigeneity.

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