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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Native American studies"”.
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Selected Tales from Georgia Indian Tribes with Suggested Application in Junior High School English and Social Studies Curricula
… which suggest that there was a need to include Native American Studies in schools, the author of this report decided to create, "Cherokee, Creek, and Yuchi tales with Suggested Activities"; a resource supplement that would be of help to teachers of junior high school English and/or social …
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Tribal Relations and NAGPRA: Consciousness, Connectedness, and Cause
<p>Native American Grave Protection Act (NAGPRA) was enacted in 1990 as a way for federally recognized tribes to bring home Ancestors and belongings that have been held captive in universities, museums, and government agencies. This thesis examines if NAGPRA helps Tribal nations in their goals for …
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Design Approach for Building Technology with Indigenous Communities
An increase in demand for mobile platforms in the last decade has led to a widespread need for platform development methods. While these standards do work well for a majority of mobile developers, one audience that can be neglected is the urban Indigenous population of youth in Toronto. Through …
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Audiovisual Indigeneities and Cosmopolitics: Shifting Political Grounds in the New Landscapes of Communication and Resources of Hope in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
This dissertation explores how collaborations between Indigenous audiovisual producers from different countries engender political and cultural arenas able to become resources of hope for Indigenous groups facing oppressive local practices. I centred my research on the activism of the Cultural …
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The Science of Settler Colonialism: A Canadian History of the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
This dissertation interrogates the history of the thrifty gene hypothesis, or the idea that Indigenous bodies are genetically predisposed to type-II diabetes. Though the hypothesis has been rejected by the scientific community at large as well as the very scientists who invented it, it continues to …
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Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: A Factor Analytic Comparison
… of the Hope Theory (Snyder et al., 1991) among a Native American child population in the Midwest. Dependent variables included (a) the Hope Interview and (b) the Children's Hope Scale. By assessing these variables, this study addressed the following questions: (a) Is the conceptualization of hope …
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Ghosts on the Land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art
The seemingly divergent interpretations are reconciled by the cultural perceptions of the medium employed-the immovable rock cliff. Crow interpretations of rock art, therefore, rest as much on the rock face and its place in the landscape as on the comprehension of culturally defined symbols.
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The Embodiment of Citizenship: Sovereignty and Colonialism in the Cherokee Nation, 1880--1920
… medicine, and education---in which Cherokees and Americans articulated representational bodily images and created policy with long-lasting effects in both nations. In this period, marriage became the symbol for the union of the two nations, and images of elite Cherokee women were used by American …
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"""This Country Is Worth the Trouble of Going to War to Keep It"": Cultures of Violence in the American Southeast to 1740"
… the violence that marked the colonization of the American Southeast by the English, French and Spanish. It eschews older interpretations that emphasize Native savagery, and those that replaced Indian savagery with European savagery during the 1960s and 1970s. The dissertation also moves beyond the …
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Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
… education from manual labor boarding schools in American Protestant missions in Hawaii and the Creek Nation before the Civil War to the Hampton Institute in Virginia and the Carlisle Indian School after the Civil War. It probes changes in the goals of educators who advocated manual labor training …
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The view from mazique (22ad502): the Coles Creek / Plaquemine cultural transition from the perspective of the Natchez Bluffs region of the Lower Mississippi Valley
… of this transition are informed principally by studies conducted in the Lower Yazoo and Tensas basins that have produced conflicting models of Plaquemine origins: the External Stimulus model and the Internal Development model. This dissertation contributes an examination of the Coles …
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EXPANDING TRIBAL CITIZENSHIP USING INTERNATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF SELF-DETERMINATION
… Jancita C. Warrington, M.A., Indigenous Nations Studies Center for Indigenous Nations Studies, May 2008 University of Kansas The purpose of this research is to provide Tribal Nations of mid-North America with an alternative approach to revising IRA tribal constitutions. In particular this …
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Science Teachers' Perceptions of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Majority Native American Schools in Oklahoma
<p>Native American students have consistently scored less than their white peers on high school academic achievement tests, have the lowest high school graduation rates, and have the lowest college enrollment rates. Research has evidenced challenges and struggles Native American children are faced …
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Law and Indigenous Religion: Theorizing a Complex Relationship
This thesis asks what preconditions are necessary to think the relation between law and Indigenous religion without marginalizing perspectives, such as those germane to Indigenous religion, that fall outside law’s frame (often figured, erroneously, as ‘objective’ and ‘neutral’). The research …
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Anishinaabe Learning Places: Teaching and Learning through Gift, Relational, Movement and Spirit Pedagogies
Powwows have always been a place of dynamic colours, beadwork, a celebration of life on the land, a site for Anishinaabeg to ‘dance, sing, and pray, the Anishinaabe way.’ Anishinaabe pedagogy and powwow as place: Teaching and Learning through Gift, Relational, Movement and Spirit Pedagogies is a …
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American Indian Adolescents Access to and Involvement in In-School Extracurricular Activities in Relation To Substance Use Frequency and Risk Behaviors
… drugs and alcohol by 8th, 10th, and 12th grade American Indian adolescents in Arizona. This population has been chosen because they have a history of oppression, substance abuse, and prejudice. These adolescents represent an extremely at-risk population due to historical trauma and the …
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Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory
This thesis explores the American Civil War in Indian Territory, focusing on how clashing visions of sovereignty within the Five Tribes---Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole---led to the one the most violent and relatively unknown chapters of the Civil War. Particular attention is …
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