학술논문

INDIAN: SCENES FROM A RENAISSANCE.
Document Type
Article
Source
National Geographic; Sep2004, Vol. 206 Issue 3, p76-95, 18p, 10 Color Photographs
Subject
Social life & customs of Native Americans
Native American reservations
Land use
Social conditions of Native Americans
Native Americans
Reservation Indians (Native Americans)
Traditional societies
Dakota (North American people)
Wild horses
Feral livestock
Elk
Poverty
Downward mobility (Social sciences)
Social mobility
Wild rice industry
Grain trade
Great Plains
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation (S.D.)
United States
South Dakota
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.