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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Native Communities"”.
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Channel erosion projections for threatened Alaska-Native communities along the Kuskokwim River
Numerous Alaska-Native (A-N) communities along the Kuskokwim River are regularly threatened by ongoing riverbank erosion, including catastrophic events. Erosion is causing the river to encroach on AN villages, threatening infrastructure and community sustainability. Current trends in precipitation …
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Museums in Collaboration: A Study of the Joint Relationships between Native Communities and Small Museums
<p>Collaborative exhibitions built by Native communities and museums often seek to reposition Native peoples as the authors and experts of their own cultures. This capstone project, done for the Museum Studies Graduate Program at the University of San Francisco, explores what measures it would take …
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Participation and representation: REDD+ in the native communities of Belgica and Infierno in the Peruvian Amazon
… are producing on representation in indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Based on data gathered in interviews with community members, communal authorities, project developers, government authorities, and other relevant actors, I examine the reasons by which communities end up engaging …
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The teaching profession in the multicultural educational framework : a case study in native communities of Cauca, Colombia
… development of teacher training programs in the native regions of Cauca, Colombia. It raises some critical issues which allow us to understand the contemporary educational problems and demands that the natives make from the Colombian State. The study also documents the important role that natives …
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Articulating a decolonial materialist rhetoric.
… way current rhetoricians approach criticism of Native discourse, that which is produced within and by Native communities. Beginning with Ronald Greene's "A Materialist Rhetoric," this thesis injects Native intellectual scholarship into the field of rhetoric, forming what I call a decolonial …
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Representation of Alaskan Native People in Nonprofit Leadership
… issue: the underrepresentation of the communities it aims to serve, including Alaska Native communities. This research investigates the likely causes of this underrepresentation and explores potential solutions. It includes nine qualitative interviews with a majority of Alaskan Native …
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An examination of communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxes encountered by Native American researchers in the field and in the academy
… tensions and paradoxical situations faced by Native researchers in the academy and in research with their own communities or with other Native communities. Thematic analysis was conducted on narratives from 12 semi-structured interviews from participants across the country. Three major themes …
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The Map Is Not the Territory: Indigenous Climate Sovereignty in the Age of Apocalypse
… colonialism as I encountered them in two Alaska Native villages. This thesis is rooted in a multisited ethnography in Norton Sound, in Western Alaska. The ethnographic object of this study is not Alaska Native communities, but rather the forms of politics that connect rural Indigenous governments …
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Healing Bodies: Micro-sites of Sovereignty as Places for Refuge, Regeneration, and World-building
… the strength-based perspectives of Black and Native American communities engaging in regenerative land care practices within the Coast Salish Territories known today as Seattle, Washington. Representing the significant themes of Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty, social and …
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Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38Bk1633
… the absorption of Old World crops into Native American subsistence regimes. The Daniel Island site provides a fine-scaled point of analysis for viewing changes in quotidian subsistence patterns and how the incorporation of Old World crops influenced Native Americans at this site. The …
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Assessing the Live Bait Industry and the Ecological Status of Invasive Cyprinodontiformes (Sheepshead minnow: Cyprinodon variegatus and Gulf killifish: Fundulus grandis) in Texas Streams
… often cause irreversible ecological damage on native communities. Here, I investigated the pathway of introduction and ecological impacts of the sheepshead minnow (<em>C. variegatus</em>) and the gulf killifish (<em>F. grandis</em>). Both species were thought to have been introduced into inland …
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Creative Participation: Rethinking Reclamation
… and contrasting it with the relationship that Native Cultures, particularly Native American Cultures have with nature. This reveals Western Man's reliance on the concept of objectivity and the resultant objectification of the natural world. In so doing Western Man has put himself apart from the …
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The shape of segregation : the role of urban form in immigrant assimilation
… the exact address of all the foreign and native population in Barcelona, combined with geometric indicators for urban shape at the block level. Using these data, I construct measures of segregation over time to evaluate the degree to which individuals from different origins, share building …
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The Valle del Yaqui Project : building the capacity of Yaqui women to help themselves
… that the Yaqui, one of the oldest and poorest native communities in the American continent, suffer. The PVE goal is to create more culturally, economical, and ecologically appropriate housing. The thesis uses economic and housing data from the Mexican government to explore the root sources of …
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Filmmaker, Lawyer, Indian Chief: The Negotiation of Identity in an Indigenous Film Festival
… represented by community outsiders. As a result, native peoples have rarely had a primary, or even collaborative role, in the production of these representations. However, in the last two decades, there has been an unprecedented proliferation of indigenous created films and the festivals that …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… cultural practices while preserving their native ways. The genízaros were products of a widespread and lucrative trade in Plains Indian captives and, as such, they represented various tribes, including Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, Kiowas, Pawnees, Utes and Wichitas. The term “genízaro” …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… cultural practices while preserving their native ways. The genízaros were products of a widespread and lucrative trade in Plains Indian captives and, as such, they represented various tribes, including Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, Kiowas, Pawnees, Utes and Wichitas. The term “genízaro” …
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Surname Distributions, Origins, and their Association with Y-chromosome Markers in the Aleutian Archipelago
… with Y-chromosome haplogroups found in Native communities from the Aleutian Archipelago. The project's underlying hypothesis is that surnames and Y-chromosome haplogroups are correlated in the Aleutian Islands because both are paternally inherited markers. Using 732 surnames, Lasker's …
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The Edges Of Wood: Dendrochronological Analysis Of Three Seneca Iroquois Structures At Letchworth State Park, 1796-1831
… three log structures originally built in Seneca communities along the Genesee River Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: the Caneadea Council House, the Nancy Jemison cabin, and the "Buffalo Tom" Jemison cabin. Dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) provided more precise construction …
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A Statistical Examination of the Climatic Human Expert System, The Sunset Garden Zones for California
… parameters to match the larger world vegetation communities. The second developed complex formulas of "Moisture Factors" that provided efficient understanding of how evapotranspiration influences plant growth and health, both for native and non-native communities. In the latter half of the …
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