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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Borderlands history"”.
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Cree (Nêhiyawak) Mobility, Diplomacy, and Resistance in the Canada-US Borderlands, 1885 - 1917
This thesis examines the borderlands history of the Cree (nêhiyawak; primarily under Chief Little Bear) from 1885 to 1917. It combines archival research, digital mapping (GIS), ethnohistory, and data analysis to track Indigenous movements and to analyze how the Cree navigated their status as …
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The Preservation of the Colonial Spanish Horse and Robert E. Brislawn, Sr.
… these horses into the larger frames of western, Borderlands, and Spanish Colonial history and their role in the evolving environmental management of the mid-west and western plains and concludes with their development as a heritage breed.</p> <p>Brislawn’s narrative, as told to family and …
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Reclaiming Tribal Identity in the Land of the Spirit Waters: The Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation
… American Indian, Chicana/o/x, and U.S./Mexico borderlands history, demonstrating how the ambiguities of Chicana/o/x and American Indian categories paradoxically both made it difficult for Native communities to be recognized for what they were, and simultaneously created spaces in which to …
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Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… experiences of black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the racially and ethnically diverse communities that surrounded the posts they garrisoned, revealing how black enlisted men viewed and attempted to …
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The rooted state: Plants and power in the making of modern China’s Xikang Province
… plants and power as its primary lens on the history of Chinese state-building in the Kham region of eastern Tibet during the early twentieth century. Farming was central to the way nationalist discourse constructed the imagined community of the Chinese nation, and it was simultaneously a …
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The Creation of the Ottoman Landscape in Southeastern Europe: Fourteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Few modern histories attempt to measure the impact of Ottoman rule on its territory. The purpose of this work was to use primary, secondary, and archaeological sources to reconstruct a physical interpretation of Ottoman Europe. Focused around landscape theory, the work primarily examined human …