George Horse Capture has taught American Indian studies at Montana State University and served as curator of the Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming.Chandler Jackson is director of the John F. Reed Library at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.Duane Champagne is professor of sociology at UCLA and has authored over 75 publications. He is also the editor of AltaMira's series, Contemporary Native American Communities.

Useful for Indian studies classes and collections and for general readership. Summing Up: Recommended. All libraries/levels.

• 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Opening Keynote: Activating Indians into National PoliticsPart 3 American Indian IdentityChapter 4 Activism: Time to Change: Native American References in SportsChapter 5 What's in a Label? Native American Identity and the Rise of a Tradition of RacismChapter 6 Tribal Nationalism: The Concept of a Governmental Recognition of Tribes and the Little Shell Chippewa TribeChapter 7 The Chinook Nation and Its Struggle for Federal RecognitionChapter 8 An Overview of Indian PopulationsPart 9 Art and ExpressionChapter 10 Native ArtChapter 11 Challenges in Managing Culturally Sensitive Collections at the National Museum of the American IndianChapter 12 Repatriation in the 21st Century: Art We Still Fighting the Skull Wars?Chapter 13 Today's American Indian Tribes and Their MuseumsPart 14 EducationChapter 15 Indian Education: State and FederalChapter 16 What Can Universities Contribute to Indigenous Language Immersion Programs? :A Case Study from Southern CaliforniaChapter 17 Language Immersion: The American ViewChapter 18 Since Lewis and Clark: Are Tribal Colleges Meeting the Challenges of the 21st CenturyChapter 19 American Indian Issues for the Next Fifty YearsChapter 20 The Rise and Fall of Native American Studies in the United StatesPart 21 MediaChapter 22 Getting Coverage in the Mainstream PressChapter 23 Indian Country Today: Your NewspaperPart 24 Politics and LawChapter 25 Voting Rights in Indian CountryChapter 26 Federal Indian Policy in the 21st CenturyChapter 27 An Overview and Patterns in Federal Indian LawPart 28 The Environment and LandChapter 29 As Long as the Water Flows: A Century of Blackfeet Water Lost from the St. Mary Canal and the Milk River DrainageChapter 30 How the Land Was Taken: The Legacy of the Lewis and Clark Expedition for Native NationsChapter 31 Concluding Keynote: From Battlefields to Boardrooms: A Rich Complexity of Enduring Pride and New Achievements