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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Native American History"”.
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Exploring Nevada's past and present: Archaeology education and Nevada public schools
… teachers in meeting this requirement. Though Native Americans are covered in roughly a third of the content standards, there are very few materials available to meet these standards. While there are many materials that attempt to teach the "prehistory" of native Nevada, there are few that are …
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Disturbing the Ecological Pastoral: An Examination of Willa Cather's Fictional Spaces in <em>My Ántonia</em> and <em>Death Comes for the Archbishop</em>
… is shallow, with little room to acknowledge the Native American history that existed in Nebraska before the characters in her novel arrived. In <em>Death Comes for the Archbishop</em>, she writes a vertical space that allows a greater degree of visibility of all that is naturally inherent in the …
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"Choosing the Jesus Way:" the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity
<p>This dissertation explores the history of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians, the development of an American Indian leadership in the denomination and the development of a Pentecostal Indian identity. The history that is told in this work is that of a century-long struggle …
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… "The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery," Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis, December 2011 My dissertation examines the national context of the Second Seminole War and argues that it was begun at the behest of Deep South slaveholders …
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William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity
… of academic historians, English literary, and Native American Studies scholars. Barry O’Connell of Amherst College compiled and edited Apess’s writings in On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot, published by University of Massachusetts Press in 1992. Apess may be …
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William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity
… of academic historians, English literary, and Native American Studies scholars. Barry O’Connell of Amherst College compiled and edited Apess’s writings in On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot, published by University of Massachusetts Press in 1992. Apess may be …
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Reclaiming Tribal Identity in the Land of the Spirit Waters: The Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation
… Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation” brings together American Indian, Chicana/o/x, and U.S./Mexico borderlands history, demonstrating how the ambiguities of Chicana/o/x and American Indian categories paradoxically both made it difficult for Native communities to be recognized for what they were, and …
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To Advance a Race: A Historical Analysis of the Intersection of Personal Belief, Industrial Philanthropy and Black Liberal Arts Higher Education in Fayette McKenzie's Presidency at Fisk University, 1915-1925
… investigates the influence McKenzie's work with Native Americans, industrial philanthropy, and American culture of the period played in McKenzie's administration. The research seeks to provide a more complete narrative of McKenzie's administration that is absent from current scholarship, and …
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Intertribal Communication, Literacy, and the Spread of the Ghost Dance
<p>During the 1880s, western Native Americans created networks of communication threaded together through postal correspondence and intertribal visitation among reservations. Through this network native groups cultivated intertribal relationships and exchanged ideas despite attempts by the United …