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Indians and immigrants: Survivance stories of literacies
… contact between whites (primarily English) and Indians (primarily Massachusett or Wampanoag). I offer perspectives on competing views of literacy and explored texts translated from Massachusett Algonquin to see how Indians used writing to enact rhetorics of survivance which challenged the …
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Rites of conflict among North American Indians
This paper argues that customary values are regularly and dramatically challenged in certain traditional societies by rites of conflict, North American Indian tribes, mostly within the United States, are studied herein as traditional societies of cultural and ecological diversity, The life of the …
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Wife abuse among Indians in the U.S.
The purpose of my study is to contribute to our understanding of the complex ways in which race/ethnicity, class, gender and legal status intersect to shape the experiences of wife abuse among women. In this study, I analyze the experiences of one group of abused women -- Indian women in the U.S. I …
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Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians an Indian Interpretation
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. November 1917. Major: Agriculture. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 129 pages. Published in Studies in the Social Sciences.
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Debating Identity: Urban Indians in the Healthcare System
… poses a particularly unique dilemma for urban Indians as their identity has come under social and legal scrutiny, which resulted in a debate over eligibility for federally administered health services. In a justification to cut funding for urban Indian health centers, the current administration …
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Debating Identity: Urban Indians in the Healthcare System
… poses a particularly unique dilemma for urban Indians as their identity has come under social and legal scrutiny, which resulted in a debate over eligibility for federally administered health services. In a justification to cut funding for urban Indian health centers, the current administration …
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Racializing white residues: seditious Anglo-Indians and others
… colonial and post-colonial perceptions of Anglo-Indians. I open my dissertation by showing how, since the late-nineteenth century, Anglo-Indians were claimed to be only of part-European racial provenance, and tautologically had their bodies deemed sexually deviant. Their bodies being, like those …
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Life and institutions of the Creek Indians to 1836
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Literature and cultural pluralism : East Indians in the Caribbean
This study explores the position, of imaginative literature in the ethnically plural societies of Trinidad and Guyana in the Caribbean. It examines the extent to which the production of imaginative literature has been marked by the same ethnic divisions which have bedevilled the political, social …
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Acculturation and consumer behaviour: a study of British Indians
… of acculturation are applicable to British Indians and what impact this acculturation has on their consumer behaviour. The first aim of the research is to examine whether British Indians can be classified according to the acculturation framework devised by Berry (1980). The second involves …
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Rhetorical Agency And Survivance: American Indians In College Composition
<p>American Indian writers in college have a distinct cultural background related to rhetorical agency and language. Particularly for Indian students who grew up on reservations, the effects of official federal policies regarding the use of English for assimilation remain significant. However, in …
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