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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Cheyenne"”.
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Cheyenne Verb Agreement in Gpsg (Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar)
… is an analysis of the verbal agreement system of Cheyenne, a member of the Algonquian family of Amerindian languages, in terms of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG). Agreement in this theory works by a mechanism of feature matching among nodes of a tree diagram which represents the …
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Leaving Cheyenne: A Study of the Evolution of the Cowboy in Larry McMurtry's Writings
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A Survey of the Fishes and Habitat of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota
Information regarding the fishery of the mainstem Cheyenne river in western South Dakota has not been updated in almost forty years. In addition, the two statewide surveys that were completed during this century sampled only a few locations and did not record any habitat or species abundance data. …
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Fish and Habitat Relations at Multiple Spatial Scales in Cheyenne River Basin, South Dakota
… factors to small stream fish communities, in Cheyenne River Basin. Reach variables were measured in the field, while landscape variables were quantified using Geographic Information Systems. Twenty seven fish species from eight families were collected in this study. Fifty eight reaches in …
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Evaluating and remediating metals and arsenic in surface waters of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana
Located in southeastern Montana, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation sits within the Powder River Basin energy development boundary. The Northern Cheyenne Tribe (Tribe) has had a long history of resisting energy development on the reservation. The Tribe has also opposed off-reservation development …
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Evaluating and remediating metals and arsenic in surface waters of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana
Located in southeastern Montana, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation sits within the Powder River Basin energy development boundary. The Northern Cheyenne Tribe (Tribe) has had a long history of resisting energy development on the reservation. The Tribe has also opposed off-reservation development …
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Music and mathematics : a reciprocal relationship action research with third graders at Cheyenne Elementary School.
The third graders of Cheyenne Elementary scored lower on state-mandated mathematics assessments than on reading assessments in three of the last seven years. While there was a reading coach on staff for Cheyenne Public Schools, there was not a position dedicated to math intervention to assist the …
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The Chiefs' Prophecy: The Destruction of "Original" Cheyenne Leadership During "the Critical Era" (1876-1935)
… identity, specific to nations like the Northern Cheyenne. The modern concepts of tribal leadership are inconsistent, undefined, and if they do exist these concepts are incompatible with traditional Indian culture, spirituality, and community needs. Traditional Cheyenne concepts of leadership are …
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The Influence of Grazing Treatments on Density of Nesting Burrowing Owls on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
… bison) and cattle on burrowing owls on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, South Dakota. Burrowing owl densities were sampled in each of three bison-grazed sites, three cattle-grazed sites, and three ungrazed sites. Nine blacktailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns were chosen as …
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Distribution and Productivity of Least Terns and Piping Plovers Along the Missouri and Cheyenne Rivers in South Dakota
… terns and piping plovers on the Missouri and Cheyenne rivers in South Dakota. All suitable habitat was surveyed, with research concentrated on two important areas: 1) the Missouri River from Fort Randall Dam to Springfield, SD, and 2) the Missouri River from Gavins Point Dam to Ponca State …
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The interaction between chemical and mechanical processes during metamorphism: a microstructural and petrologic study of amphibolite shear zones, Cheyenne Belt, Southeastern Wyoming
… deform margins of amphibolite boudins in the Cheyenne Belt, SE Wyoming, record a full strain transition from relatively undeformed amphibolite which has relict igneous textures to mylonitic amphibolite with a strongly developed L-S tectonic fabric. The strain transition is marked by the …
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The Sand Creek Massacre and the History of Greater Reconstruction in the American West
… by concentrating on the Southern Arapaho and Cheyenne of the Colorado plains territory. Elliott West’s “Greater Reconstruction” concept specifically connects mid-nineteenth-century race-making and nation-state-building political projects in the American South and West. For this project, I plan …
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Where the Sky Never Ends: a Screenplay
… his way of life fading away. Stands Straight, a Cheyenne, sees that war with the wite man is nothing more than slow suicide for his people. The screenplay follows each of them on a quest to find peace and escape the reality of the times. This thesis, written in screenplay format, pays homage to …
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Proterozoic Farwell Mountain-Lester Mountain suture zone, northern Colorado : subduction flip and progressive assembly of arcs
… within Paleoproterozoic crust south of the Cheyenne belt. The proposed "suture zone" is mapped in the Park Range of northern Colorado as a northeast-trending belt of imbricated tectonic slivers between ca. 1.79-1.77 Ga Green Mountain rocks to the north and ca. 1.76-1.72 Ga rocks to the …
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Conservation of Least Terns and Piping Plovers Along The Missouri River and Its Major Western Tributaries in South Dakota
… and the lower 1/3 of the Grand, Moreau, Cheyenne, and White rivers. Least tern numbers increased substantially (253; 367) between 1986 and 1987, but plover numbers increased only slightly (187; 197). Terns and plovers utilized 83 sites during the two years. Most tern and plover colonies …
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Massacre, memoir, and myth: The 1866 Fetterman Fight, a reconstruction
… eighty men into a fatal ambush by 1,800 Lakota, Cheyenne, and Araphoe warriors, and committing mutual suicide with Captain Brown when hope was gone. In his 1991 article "Price of Arrogance," John D. McDermott reaffirmed Carrington's accusations. This thesis debunks the myths, challenges the …
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Managing racial risk in the U.S. university of the twenty-first century: racial theme parties, administrative management, and strategic resistance
… art work by Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap Of Birds (Cheyenne-Arapaho). I found that university administrators managed racism as racial-risk—that is the legal and financial liability that emerges from university governance dictated by the logics of corporate neoliberalism that influence U.S. law and …
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Development, Growth, and Behavioral Ecology of Walleye as Influenced by Sublethal Exposure to Dietary Selenium
… that concentrations of dissolved selenium in the Cheyenne River have been higher than in other tributaries used for walleye broodstock collection the last 15 years. To determine whether selenium contributes to problems in the Lake Oahe walleye population, adult walleye were collected from three …
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CONFLICT, TENSION, STRENGTH: THE HISTORY OF ST. PAULS MISSION, ST. LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL, AND ST. STEPHENS INDIAN SCHOOL, 1884—PRESENT'
… Indian School serves students from the Northern Cheyenne and Crow reservations. St. Stephens Indian School is on the Wind River Indian Reservation, shared by the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes. Although these schools share a rocky legacy founded on assimilation and Catholicism, …
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Monumental Change: Recontextualization and Inclusion Through the Lens of Denver’s Civil War Monument and the Sand Creek Massacre
… Massacre was an attack on a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho by Colorado’s 3rd Regiment that resulted in the murder and mutilation of hundreds of members of the tribes. This thesis examines the impact of past and current efforts to recontextualize the monument and its plaque. It also …
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