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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Indian studies"”.
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Natural science of the Great Plains as it relates to the American Indian : a syllabus and sourcebook
… roadlogs, is an initial attempt at providing an Indian Studies field course in natural science. It also includes a syllabus which stresses natural science processes and serves as a unifying factor for field work, lecture, and course discussions. The dissertation stresses geographical and …
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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
… (2012). Situated at the intersection of Media Studies, American Indian Studies, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, this dissertation explores the ways in which Navajo identities are constructed by the shows’ white/non-Navajo hosts and producers for viewers’ cultural consumption. …
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Before we teach it, We Have to learn it": Wisconsin Act 31 compliance within public teacher preparation programs
… 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 institutions …
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The underside of borders: reading Chican@ and Native American literature at the turn of the twenty-first century
… where issues relevant to Chican@ and American Indian Studies converge, overlap, and stand at odds. Using literary examples from Chican@ and Native American writers my project expands our understanding of how borders affect the way we read each other culturally and socially. To this end, I draw …
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Constructs of Parenting in Urban Ghana
… styles formulated in Euro-American, Chinese, and Indian studies did not completely capture self-reported parenting practices among Ghanian parents. Three modified constructs of Ghanaian parenting practices emerged from the quantitative data, including: 1) Responsiveness-Cherishing, in which …
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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
This research examines the manifold forms of support 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 …
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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
… 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 of literary genres and in silent film, this project …
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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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Inviting the Other: An ethnographically-informed social history of Sat Tal Christian Ashram
… a place that was both “truly Christian and truly Indian” and actively sought to model and impart a Christ-centered spirituality that was not bound to Westernised institutional Christianity. Based on 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I present a social history of STA, highlighting pre-1947, …
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Ella Deloria: a biographical sketch and literary analysis
… the food, lodging and care of the forty Indian students who lived there. In 1961 Ella Deloria was appointed research associate at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She continued her research in anthropology, but her main project was a dictionary of Lakota language begun about …
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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 …