학술논문
INDIAN: SCENES FROM A RENAISSANCE.
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Article
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Source
National Geographic; Sep2004, Vol. 206 Issue 3, p76-95, 18p, 10 Color Photographs
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Language
ISSN
00279358
Abstract
Discusses how wild horses, elk, buffalo, and mustang have returned to the reservation of the Cheyenne River Sioux in South Dakota. Consideration of the poverty and high rates of suicide among the people at Sioux reservations on the Great Plains; How the Cheyenne River herd is the largest tribally owned buffalo herd in the United States; Efforts of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin to use profits from their casinos for the future of tribal development, new land, roads, and schools; Investment of profits from casinos of the Chippewa of Northern Minnesota on revitalizing their wild rice harvests; How members of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma take language immersion courses which have made them the most literate of Indian nations boasting newspapers and schools.