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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Shawnee"”.
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Blood, Mud, and Money: Place and Public Land Conflicts in the Shawnee Hills
<p>This dissertation examines conflicts involving the use of public land for both extractive resources and recreational purposes in Southern Illinois from an anthropological perspective. These conflicts are examined in terms of place, western ideas of nature and culture, and the debate concerning …
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Shawnee National Forest Rock Climbing and Frontcountry Recreation: Leave No Trace, Awareness, Attitudes and Behaviors
… and complex management challenges. As the Shawnee National Forest (SNF) management team updates and revises the 2006 SNF Land and Resource Management Plan, understanding influences on visitor attitudes and behaviors becomes essential. This dissertation presents findings and associated …
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Preserving Shawnee Identity through European Trade: How European Trade in Lower Shawneetown Expressed Indigenous Independence
The residents of Lower Shawneetown utilized trade to express independence from colonizing European powers. Unconventionally, the Shawnee articulated their freedom from colonization through direct trade be and diplomacy with European governments in the New and Old Worlds. The dynamics of trade in …
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Restoring Confidence in the Sufficiency of the Scriptures for the Soul Care of God’s People in Selected Southern Baptist Churches in Shawnee, Oklahoma
… PEOPLE IN SELECTED SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCHES IN SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA John Michael Massey, Sr., D.Min. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018 Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Heath B. Lambert This project was designed to train key lay people and pastors from local Southern Baptist Churches in …
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Switchgrass Yield, Nutrient Uptake, And Rhizosphere Microbial Community Composition As Affected By Cultivar And Soil Fertility
… 3-6% slope. Two switchgrass forage varieties, ‘Shawnee’ and ‘Sunburst’, produced 8.1 and 28.2 Mg ha-1 over three post-establishment years at Becker and Lamberton, respectively, and a low-diversity grass mix was similar in production to ‘Shawnee’. ‘Liberty’ switchgrass, a new bioenergy variety, …
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Commemorating Indiana at the 1916 Statehood Centennial Celebrations: An Examination of the Memory of Colonization and its Lingering Effects on the Indiana State Park System
… erased the Lenni Lenape, Miami, Potawatomi, and Shawnee tribes played in the state’s history. This paper analyzes the Indiana statehood centennial celebrations as sites of erasure of Native American contributions to state and national history. It examines how Richard Lieber, the founder of the …
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Integrating thermoelectric power generation operations with aquatic ecosystem sustainability
… of exceeding a given temperature. The Shawnee Fossil Plant on the Ohio River was used to demonstrate the methodology on three fish species endemic to the power plant location. Using the novel risk assessment method as a baseline, a scenario analysis of three differently-sized power …
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Narrative Structures: The Creation of Meaning Through Reference and Collage in Architecture
… the story of White Hawk and the Sky Sisters, a Shawnee ethnoastrological myth originating in the Ohio River Valley. Transportation and movement require a study of sequence, which can be distilled into two contrasting approaches, linear and flexible, that engage the site differently. The …
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Effects of biochar, subsoiling, and native seeding on the establishment of pollinator habitat in log landings
… this establishment across the Hoosier, Shawnee, and Mark Twain National Forests of Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Three soil treatments and a control were applied across five landings in each National Forest to improve soil conditions, along with the seeding of 31 competitive, …
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Assessing private forest landowner decision making in Illinois: applied management solutions for diverse objectives
… contentious dialogue about the management of the Shawnee National Forest. Second, quantitative survey data about southern Illinois landowners’ climate change perceptions were compared with qualitative interview responses about the array of ecosystem services accruing from their forestlands. …
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Prevention in the prairies: tobacco prevention and sodium reduction initiatives in Kansas
… was an observational study of sodium intake in Shawnee County, Kansas. This project produced baseline data of sodium consumption patterns in the county. The study was composed of a telephone questionnaire, a 24-hour dietary recall, and ending with educating the participants of sodium amounts. As …
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A Study of the Behavior of Chlorine and Sulfur from Coal During Combustion in an AFBC System
… to those used at the 160-MWe AFBC system at the Shawnee Steam Plant near Paducah, Kentucky were used. The first 1000-hour burn was done with a low-chlorine (0.012% CI and 3.0% S) Western Kentucky University # 9 coal. The second 1000-hour burn was done with a high-chlorine (0.28% CI and 2.4% S) …
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"""First, I'd put some windows in the school"": A critical race ethnography of the Illinois College and Career Readiness Pilot Program"
… the relationship between one pilot site, Shawnee Community College, and one of its chronically underserved partner high schools, Cairo Junior and Senior High School (CJSHS). Using critical race ethnography (Duncan, 2005; Vaught, 2011) and methodology influenced by feminist epistemology …
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Tracking carbon fluxes across ocean interfaces using dissolved gas observations
The cycling and exchange of carbon between Earth’s systems play a pivotal role in regulating climate, yet two major carbon fluxes remain poorly constrained: the biological carbon pump (BCP) and carbon release from Arctic permafrost. This thesis focuses on dissolved gases as tracers and drivers of …
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Tracking carbon fluxes across ocean interfaces using dissolved gas observations
The cycling and exchange of carbon between Earth’s systems play a pivotal role in regulating climate, yet two major carbon fluxes remain poorly constrained: the biological carbon pump (BCP) and carbon release from Arctic permafrost. This thesis focuses on dissolved gases as tracers and drivers of …
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Metapopulations and metacommunities in dry forest openings in southern Illinois
… carried out at each of three sites within the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois: a plant survey and ordination using environmental variables, the use of incidence function models to determine which of the species had the potential to form a metapopulation, a metacommunity study to …
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Switchgrass potential on reclaimed surface mines for biofuel production in West Virginia
… at the more fertile Hampshire Hill site and Shawnee produced the highest yields at Hobet 21 (7,853 kg ha-1 and 1,086 kg ha-1 averaged across years, respectively). Switchgrass yields increased from 2009 to 2010, but declined from 2010 to 2011. Switchgrass yields from farmlands in this region …
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Changing Continuities: The Removal Period (1795-1830) Archaeology of the Potawatomi and Kickapoo Peoples of Illinois
This study is an examination of the cultural interaction that occurred between Native and European peoples in Illinois between 1795-1830. During this period many Native groups splintered into factions--nativists and accommodationists--that advocated opposing strategies for dealing with …
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How America Remembers: Analysis of the Academic Interpretation and Public Memory of the Battle of Tippecanoe
The Battle of Tippecanoe marked the turning point in relations between Anglo/American and Native American cultures, whose incompatible ways of understanding and living on the land and religious views made co-existence improbable. The battle also served as a last ditch effort by young, desperate …
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