Journal of American Indian Education

Volume 7 Number 2
January 1968

FROM THE BOOKSHELF

The past three months have provided a number of publications suitable for the bookshelf of those interested or engaged in Indian education. Rather than review them with a critic's pen, we are listing five volumes and a short resume of their contents. They all have excellent qualifications in one or more areas of interest, and are recommended reading — George Gill

Bryde, John F., S.J., Ph. D. The Sioux Indian Student: A Study of Scholastic Failure and Personality Conflict. Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Holy Rosary Mission, 1966.
A book written by Father Bryde as a result of a two-year research project sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. Its findings reveal a somewhat new approach to Indian Education.

Hough, Henry W. Development of Indian Resources. Denver, National Congress of American Indians, 1967. $4.00.
A handbook for tribal leaders produced by the Indian Community Action Program, at Arizona State University, which covers statistics, management, natural resources, training programs, business potentials, etc.

Jones, Douglas C. The Treaty of Medicine Lodge. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. $5.95.
A dramatic account, as seen by newspapermen, of the meeting of thousands of Southern Plains Indians and the United States Peace Commission on Medicine Lodge Creek (Kansas), in 1867, for the purpose of treaty negotiations.

Mitchell, Emerson Blackhorse, and T. D. Allen. Miracle Hill. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. $5.95.
The story of Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell, a Navaho student at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A gripping and revealing narrative of a Navaho youth from his birth in the hogan to the present, as written by himself.

Thrapp, Dan L. The Conquest of Apacheria. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. $6.95.
A comprehensive account of the Apache wars and the numerous negotiations of the Federal government with the Apache leaders in the 1800s in the Southwest.

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