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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"American Indian Studies"”.
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
Native Americans as a marginalized population within the United States are typically rendered invisible within contemporary culture and society. Often relegated to the past, within the American and global imagination, Natives are habitually characterized by homogenizing stereotypes, which only …
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Before we teach it, We Have to learn it": Wisconsin Act 31 compliance within public teacher preparation programs
… 31 was established for the purpose of addressing American Indian history, culture, and sovereignty within K-12 schools as a response to treaty rights issues in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Yet, in the 21st century there remain issues with compliance throughout not only K-12 schools but also …
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The underside of borders: reading Chican@ and Native American literature at the turn of the twenty-first century
… Underside of Borders: Reading Chican@ and Native American Literature at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” focuses on Chican@ and Native American novels published from 1990 to the present. Teasing out the common denominators of different methodologies grouped under the umbrella term “border …
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Aymara perspectives: Ethnoecological studies in Andean communities of northern Chile
… research, which was conducted with the Aymara Indians of the northern Chilean Andes, from November 1998 through January 1999, in an attempt to understand Aymara perspectives of recent development that has taken place within their ancestral homeland. A study design was developed that would …
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The University Experiences of Post-9/11 Native American Veterans: Strategic Support For Inclusion, Retention, & Success
… that shape and influence Post-9/11 Native American Student Veterans to enter, persist, and graduate from a mainstream institution of higher education. Moreover, it is a qualitative assessment that explores how Post-9/11 Native American Student Veterans navigate the collegiate environment …
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Reimagining Indigenous Identity through Performance Text-Counting Coup on the "Cop in the Head"
… inquiry, I use Gerald Vizenor's notion of "postindian" to respond to the ways in which postindian identities establish "survivance"; that is, how the presence, resistance and endurance of Indigenous lives challenge simulations. Native histories in the shadow of dominance can be reimagined …
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The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
… that despite their coercion into the “making of Americans” discourses, New Immigrants and American Indians shared structurally connected roles in the drama of Americanization and assimilation. Recovering a genealogy of a combined cultural resistance to regimes of “making Americans” in a variety …
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The Native new wave: creative sovereignty in twenty-first century Indigenous genre fiction
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Discerning Neighborhood Characteristics as Contributing Factors to Infant Mortality in Rural Northern Plains Communities
American Indians are distinct in their current geographic isolation and history of exclusionary policies enacted against them. Citizenship and territorial policies from the 1700s through the early 1900s have manifested in the distinctive status of many American Indian communities as sovereign …