Native American Studies Paper Topics

Native American Studies Paper Topics

The processes of human and cultural genocide since contact are very important subjects and if that is an interesting subject to you, that is fine and we hope our list gives you some new things to consider. In some cases, you may want to consider covering colonization and genocide from the perspective of meaningful resistance and from recovery efforts made by indigenous people.

However, Indian people have rich histories and a wealth of modern experiences that deserve attention, as well. Contemporary art, music, language studies, and much more, are all part of contemporary Indian life in America. Traditional and pop music, fashion design, and science fiction, are all areas where you can include American Indian work and influence into your research.

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Topics for Research Paper

As we noted, topics for research papers in American Indian studies are vast. Here are a few that we can write on and which might be of interest to you!

1. Aboriginal and First Nations identities in America
2. Access to reproductive health care for Native women
3. All cowboys, no Indians: Native representation in modern American film and television
4. Assimilation and Americanization
5. Blood quantum and the goals of genocide
6. Colonization and self-determination
7. Concepts of childhood in indigenous America
8. Contemporary American Indian Music: Traditional, 49s, hip hop, rounds, and more
9. Contemporary indigenous philosophies of Eastern nations
10. Contemporary Native American fiction: Almanac of the Dead and others
11. Contemporary regional distinctions among tribes: What Powwow circuits and dance competitions reveal about modern Indian identity
12. Critical race theory and pan-Indian philosophies
13. Cultural attachments and pathologies: Why do some whites believe their attachment to a sport mascot is of greater importance than Native attachment to their own identities
14. Dental care in Native communities: How teeth mark class
15. Developmental psychology and Ojibwe stages of life
16. Diversity is natural: The creation and enforcement of homogeneity in an America that was always multiracial and multinational
17. Environmental racism and indigenous people
18. Farming techniques of the indigenous upper Midwest
19. Federal Indian law and policy in the twentieth century
20. Federal law and the failure to prosecute those who systematically target Native people
21. Food desserts in the bread basket of America: Native reservations and access to nutrition
22. Fundamentals of the Anishinaabe language
23. Genetic ancestry testing and white ‘discovery’ of Indianness
24. Great expectations: What happens when Native people fall short of white presumptions
25. How colonial forces portray Native women’s political and social power as cultural deficiency: A long history
26. How Native resources made European wealth and stability possible: Then and now
27. In defense of oral histories: Science tends to agree
28. Indigenous peoples and political autonomy
29. International law: Federal tribes and the U.S. government
30. Kidnapping as rescue: The demonization of Native families and indigenous parenting
31. Language revitalization among contemporary Indians
32. Legal conflicts over land and resources in the 21^st century
33. Legal decolonization
34. Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ella Deloria, Janet Campbell Hale, and Wendy Rose. Do they have anything in common beyond white perceptions of their race.
35. Louise Erdrich and the formation of contemporary expectations for Native writers
36. Medical care on reservations
37. Mental health care for indigenous people
38. Missionaries and federally controlled schools
39. Native American Fashion: How groups like Beyond Buckskin fight appropriation and promote Native designers
40. Native American film and television
41. Native American history and major treaties
42. Native American pulp fiction: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and
43. No one needs saving: Why indigenous people need economic and political colonization to stop
44. Pan Indian movement philosophies
45. Peyote singers: Realities and myths
46. Political autonomy and American Indian communities
47. Postcolonialism and indigenous feminisms
48. Public education on reservations: Barriers to becoming college ready
49. Public policy: Rural deprivation in an urban obsessed culture
50. Reinventing the Enemy’s Language and other radical collections of Native writing
51. Sovereignty and contemporary legal issues
52. Targeting Native women: The high rates of cross racial rape and other violence against Native women on reservations
53. The Center for World Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Law Centre and other global indigenous organizations
54. The ethics of genetic research: Indigenous philosophies
55. The first printed bible in American was in Algonquin: How religious colonization shaped commerce and industry in early America
56. The invasion of American: The first fifty years
57. The National Indian Education Association and Native American Studies programs in America
58. The people of the Great Lakes region, north and south
59. Three Indian communities of Long Island: Shinnecock Indian Nation, Poospatuck Reservation, and New York City
60. Tribal blood rules and blood quantum: Controlling indigenous women’s sexuality
61. U.S. Indian policy since the Mayflower
62. Urban Indians: A history of Detroit’s indigenous communities
63. When genocide is the goal, survival is revolutionary: Repositioning the “failures” of Native communities

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