During what Vine Deloria and Clifford M. Lytle, in American Indians, American Justice, described as the fourth of six periods in the history of U.S. government legal relations with American Indians – the period of Reorganization and Self-Government – the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (IRA) enabled Tribes to organize according to federally approved constitutions […]
Natives Go Classical – and Then Some
NPR reports that a “growing number of American Indian musicians are embracing classical music.” Increasingly, the composers report, this means mixing identities in a constructive and productive way: Mescalero Apache composer and musician Steven Alvarez hopes the classical native movement will offer American Indians a new musical voice in much the same way that reggae […]
Rodeo, Roping Competition – Apache Gold Casino
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The American Indian Church
Among the goals and legacies of conquest has been that of converting Native Americans to Christianity. Christian churches have been evangelizing on the San Carlos Apache Reservation since soon after Geronimo was captured for the last time and active resistance to the concentration policies on the reservation ceased in 1886. The first Lutheran missionaries arrived […]
People of San Carlos I
Dale Miles was the first person we got to know on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. We had read one of his editorials, about anti-Apache prejudice, in the off-reservation, Apache Moccasin newspaper, and sought him out. It is not entirely clear how many non-Natives read the Apache Moccasin, even though it is non-Native published, and […]