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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"European colonization"”.
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Using ancient DNA to infer impacts of European colonization on first nations populations in coastal British Columbia, Canada
… population history and the genetic effects of colonization on BC First Nations populations. In this dissertation, I sequenced the hypervariable segment (HVS1) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 61 ancient PRH individuals and compared them to the descendant groups, the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation …
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Genetic Variation and Differentiation in Honey Bees (Apis) (Electrophoresis)
… from importations that began with early European colonization in the Americas. In the Old World, at least two dozen geographical races of A. mellifera are known to occur. Historical records of introduction indicates that only eight of these races were ever introduced into the United …
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Writing of the Americas
… between the systems, and discuss the impact of European colonization. Writing systems within the American Continents contain a vast array of different indigenous systems that first started around 1000-900 BCE and spread throughout Mesoamerica into varying communities innovated to make their …
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Effects of Tornado Damage, Prescribed Fire, and Salvage Logging on Oak (Quercus Spp.) Saplings in Upland Oak Forests in Northern Mississippi
After European colonization and extensive logging folloby long periods of fire suppression, oak dominated forests, woodlands, and savannahs are being replaced by an unprecedented forest ecosystem. In Mississippi, these new forest systems are dominated in the mid- and understory by mesophytic …
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Byzantium and the Question of Colonial Identity: An Examination of the Immediate Social Impacts of the Fourth Crusade on the Thirteenth Century Byzantine Roman World
… of Constantinople and Greece in 1204 by western European knights was a form of colonialism, whereby a colonial enterprise was established in the former lands of the Byzantine Roman Empire by the participants of what modern scholars refer to as the Fourth Crusade. As a result of this conquest, …
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A Geocritical Approach to Coloniality and Aesthetics: Mapping the Spatial Narratives of the Amazon Basin
… legacies and practices of the 500 years of European colonization, has produced racial, political, and cultural hierarchies around the colonial difference dividing East from West, center from periphery, civilization from the Global South. This dissertation examines a particular strand of …
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Ancient DNA from pre-Columbian South America
… Andes of South America prior to the arrival of Europeans. I used a combination of traditional PCR-based methods and the latest technological advances for DNA analysis (i.e. Next-Generation Sequencing – NGS) to generate high-resolution mtDNA data to explore the past genetic diversity of South …
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Assessing Thule Inuit impacts on High Arctic lakes and ponds : a paleolimnological approach
… began in Canada following the onset of European colonization. However, our paleolimnological data indicate that centuries prior to European settlement, ponds on Ellesmere and Bathurst Island were impacted by Thule Inuit whalers, whose activities altered nutrient levels in nearby ponds. …
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Urbanizing The Countryside? The Governance Of Rural Restructuring In Bancroft And North Hastings County, Ontario
… systems of the municipal system, spread by European colonization.
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Sarah Across America
… of North American, as opposed to Western European, history in service of an epic fantasy adventure story exploring themes of racism and imperialism. </p> <p>Sarah Across America takes as its inspiration an American epic, the journey of the Corps of Discovery across a continent largely …
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"Warfare, Trade, and ""Indians"" in British Literature, 1652--1711"
… as similar and in some ways even superior to Europeans. This special status, which was also accorded to the Chinese, did not extend to American ""Indians."" I begin my study with the origins of the mistaken term ""Indian"" as applied to American Indians by European ""discoverers"" in the late …
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"Warfare, trade, and ""Indians"" in British literature, 1652-1711"
… as similar and in some ways even superior to Europeans. This special status, which was also accorded to the Chinese, did not extend to American “Indians.” I begin my study with the origins of the mistaken term “Indian” as applied to American Indians by European “discoverers” in the late …
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Genomic insights into the human population history of Australia and New Guinea
… Project panel. Other than recent admixture after European colonization of Australia, and Southeast Asian ad- mixture in the lowlands of New Guinea in the last few millennia, the populations of Sahul appear to have been genetically independent from the rest of the world since their divergence ∼50 …
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Under Their Own Laws: How the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation created a new marine protected area – without the federal government’s approval
… own laws and practices, just as they did before European colonization. They are using a vast wealth of traditional knowledge, bolstered by decades of their own scientific research, to guide their management practices and ensure their waters and resources will still be there for generations to …
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Dental Variation in Central Mexican Latinx Individuals
… 500 years of microevolutionary forces due to European colonization of the Americas. Genetic information shows that the Latinx population in Mexico primarily has contributions from Native American and European ancestral groups shaping its genotype, with low levels of African ancestral …
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Modernizing Conquest
… of the multitude of problems presented by European colonization along two discrete tracks, with neither track on course to reach any destination. As the leaders of the euro-derivative world order strive to convince everyone that they have put an end to the colonial destruction of every …
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Hip life music: re-defining Ghanaian culture (1990-2012)
… and dancer Reggie Rockstone. The histories of European colonization in Ghana, and its shaping. By highlife and American hip hop (via globalization) into hip life music are explored through an insider's lens. This is evidenced by the traditional influencing of the popular culture of hip life. In …
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Anthropogenic Factors Affecting Mountain Lions in the Black Hills of South Dakota
… in North America were persecuted, at least since European colonization. The distribution of mountain lions declined for decades until in the mid-1900s, when they persisted only in the mountains of western North America and wetlands of the Florida peninsula. After legal protection and human …
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The Inhabited Arctic: Architecture, Time, and the Making of the Past in the Bering Strait (1760–1980)
… and temporal imaginations that long preceded European colonization. They encountered contemporary Indigenous settlements coexisting with ancestral houses, fossil animals, the ruins of earlier colonial ventures, and ancient routes of exchange. This dissertation, centered on the Bering Sea and …
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… This partitioning is a well-known consequence of European colonization that created, in the early 19th century, an artificial political boundary and an ensuing official linguistic separation between two Dagara-speaking communities: the Anglophone Dagara on the northwest banks of the Volta River in …
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