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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Indigenous history"”.
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O direito a um passado na luta para existir no presente: disputas pela memória indígena nas escritas da História do Rio Grande do Norte (1994-2021)
… of Rio Grande do Norte, the existence of indigenous peoples in that state became public. However, this fact came into conflict with the narratives consolidated by the classical local historiography, which admitted a disappearance of these ethno-cultural identities in the state. In view of …
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Reimagining Indigenous Identity through Performance Text-Counting Coup on the "Cop in the Head"
This dissertation interrogates obscured Indigenous identities by way of an original dramatic script that employs story-telling as an inherent cultural device that sustains a sense of peoplehood. In an art-based inquiry, I use Gerald Vizenor's notion of "postindian" to respond to the ways in which …
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The Anti-Plantation Uprising: Indigenous Kinship, Territories, and Communal Politics in Guatemala, 1966-1982
<p>Indigenous Maya in Guatemala lived through one of Latin America’s most intense conflicts during the second part of the twentieth century. This research focuses on Maya politics, kinship relations, and interethnic experiences in multifarious mobilization through social democratic parties, rural …
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Decolonizing the Body
<p>The prevailing narrative about California’s history, and in specific the way that it discusses the Spanish Colonial system and the Gold Rush, glosses over the genocide of her indigenous inhabitants and the oppression experienced by those who survived these historical traumas. By focusing on the …
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Indigenous Detroit: indigeneity, modernity, and racial and gender formation in a modern American city, 1871-2000
… impact of urban culture on the reemergence of Indigenous people in that same location at the end of the 20th century. Covering more than a hundred years of urban Indigenous history between the nexus of urban history and Indigenous studies, Indigenous Detroit examines, first, non-Natives elites, …
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Unforgetting the Dakota 38: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Resurgence, and the Competing Narratives of the U.S.-Dakota War, 1862-2012
… the Dakota 38" projects a nuanced light onto the history and memory of the mass hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men on December 26, 1862 following the U.S.-Dakota War in Southcentral Minnesota. This thesis investigates the competing narratives between Santee Dakota peoples (a mixture of Wahpeton …
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The revelatory landscape: Archiving memory through indigenous narrative and cosmology
The Khoi-Khoi's indigenous astronomical beliefs are associated with themes of time, religion and belonging. These values were manifested structurally and spiritually on the topographic landscape of Cape Town nearly 1000 years ago. Today - this landscape is merely longed for as it exclusively …
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Building bodies, (un)making empire: gender, sport, and colonialism in the United States, 1880-1930
… Native youth into white culture and undermine Indigenous communities. My project focuses specifically on Haskell’s athletic and physical education programs, and I argue that through participation in Haskell’s physical and athletic culture, Native students actively resisted assimilationist …
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“TO THOSE WHO SAY WE ARE ASSIMILATED, I SAY HOGWASH!”: A HISTORY OF THE WYANDOT OF ANDERDON DAY SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, 1790 TO 1915
… diaspora. This dissertation counters Indigenous education scholarship which argues that western-style schooling seeks to erase Indigenous ways of knowledge and replace it with Settler systems of knowing. Moreover, this dissertation builds on diaspora and Wendat/Wandat studies, which …
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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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A History of Culture Contact in North-Eastern New Caledonia 1774-1870
… the attitudes and reactions of Europeans to the indigenous society helped determine their actions and policies . The broad process of culture contact between Melanesians and Europeans was the most dramatic, but by no means the only important process of interaction during this period and its …
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A History of Culture Contact in North-Eastern New Caledonia 1774-1870
… the attitudes and reactions of Europeans to the indigenous society helped determine their actions and policies . The broad process of culture contact between Melanesians and Europeans was the most dramatic, but by no means the only important process of interaction during this period and its …
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“…taken in hand by Indians”: Jewish-Indigenous Relations in the Early Twentieth-Century Qu'Appelle Valley Region
… a particular understanding of historic Jewish-Indigenous relations in Western Canada for over ninety years. Since 1931, at least six scholars have claimed that Indigenous peoples helped destitute Jewish settlers of the Lipton Agricultural Colony in 1901. None of these scholars, however, provide …
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Writing and Teaching Curriculum With Relationships in Our Place: A Critical Meta-analysis of Saskatchewan Core French Curricula's Cultural Indicators
… the legacy residential schools left on Canadian Indigenous peoples, as well as to move Canada forward in reconciliation. In education, there are seven calls to action related to legacy and four calls to action related to reconciliation. Using document analysis methodology and honouring Indigenous …
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An archaeological re-investigation of the Mulka's Cave Aboriginal rock art site, near Hyden, Southwestern Australia
Mulka's Cave is a profusely decorated hollow boulder at The Humps, a large granite dome near Hyden, a small town 350 km southeast of Perth. The importance of the artwork has been recognised for 50 years. Test excavations in the cave in 1988 yielded 210 mainly quartz artefacts assignable to the …