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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"white settlers"”.
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The participation of the Zulus in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
… outline the attitude of the Zulus towards the white settlers in Natal. the Governmell~ of Natal, the British Government and the Government of the S.A. Republic or those subjects of the Transvaal and Natal who becarne involved in the internal faction struggles in Zululand. The matter will only …
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Towards a Decolonial Haole Rhetoric
… of haole, a Native Hawaiian articulation of whiteness, in two multimodal texts related to the proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna-a-Wākea in Hawai'i. Specifically, I analyze the Aloha 'Aima mural at the University of Hawai'i and the 'Imiloa web interface, as two …
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The effect of the Zambian Land tenure system on Agricultural development
… laws. During the colonial period, whilst the white settlers introduced English law to apply to them and guide their activities, the indigenous Africans were left to their own native customary laws. As far as land tenure was concerned, therefore, a dual land tenure system was introduced …
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Colonization of the Crown: Hunting, Class, and the Creation of Glacier National Park, 1885-1915
… of years. Beginning in the late 19th century, white settlers and homesteaders began moving into the Glacier area, in search of viable farmland and attracted by the vast natural resources available in the region. Both the Blackfeet Indians, who lived in the eastern areas of the present-day park, …
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Colonization of the Crown: Hunting, Class, and the Creation of Glacier National Park, 1885-1915
… of years. Beginning in the late 19th century, white settlers and homesteaders began moving into the Glacier area, in search of viable farmland and attracted by the vast natural resources available in the region. Both the Blackfeet Indians, who lived in the eastern areas of the present-day park, …
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An analysis of the land issue as portrayed in selected novels by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… to present land as a bone of contention between white settlers and Africans in Kenya and paying particular attention to how land appropriation affected African culture and tradition. It is hoped that at the end it should be clear that land has great significance to Africans, a fact borne out by …
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Walking the Path of Humility: White Settler Positionality in Research with Tsartlip First Nation
… this thesis offers insight into how white settlers may conduct research “in a good way” with Indigenous communities amongst a dominant colonial system. Through a first-person/organizational inquiry, I explored, as a non-Indigenous leader in Tsartlip First Nation, how my research …
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Picturing a Nation Divided: Art, American Identity and the Crisis over Slavery
… claimed to be more civilized than the barbaric white settlers. In the Arkansas Traveler, Washbourne, influenced by his missionary father and his Cherokee contemporaries, presented slaveholders as civilized and those whites who opposed the expansion of slavery as barbaric. For Washbourne, as for …
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The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska
… of relations between the Yup'ik Eskimos and white settlers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I argue here that while the Yup'ik Eskimos grappled with the devastating effects of introduced diseases, they did not repudiate their shamans and traditional faith, which sets the Yup'ik …
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The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska
… of relations between the Yup'ik Eskimos and white settlers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I argue here that while the Yup'ik Eskimos grappled with the devastating effects of introduced diseases, they did not repudiate their shamans and traditional faith, which sets the Yup'ik …
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The politics of land in Levubu, Northern Province c.1935-1998
… characterised by the quest for fertile land for white farmers while, at the same time, dispossessing indigenous communities. Land as the country's main political and economic resource has been manipulated to control people. The thesis shows how a system of political oppression has been used to …
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Unforgetting the Dakota 38: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Resurgence, and the Competing Narratives of the U.S.-Dakota War, 1862-2012
… mixture of Wahpeton and Mdewakanton Dakota) and white Minnesotan citizens in Mankato, Minnesota—the town of the hanging—between 1862 and 2012. By using settler colonialism as an analytical framework, I argue that the erasing of Dakotas by white historical memory has actively and routinely removed …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
… revolved around a social system that championed white superiority, a political system that adhered to republican thinking, and a legal system that prevented lawlessness. To create a well-ordered society, Georgia’s leaders believed that authority flowed from white settlers to civil institutions, …
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The unsettled settler: personal and discursive tragedy in Alexandra Fuller's memoirs
Alexandra Fuller's memoirs detail the lives of white settlers in Southern Africa (specifically Zimbabwe) from white-rule to post-independence. Her memoirs illustrate how the settler colonial dream of the promised land in Africa would ultimately fail to be fully realised and maintainable. Yet, …
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Legacies of violence : an in-depth analysis of two case studies based on interviews with perpetrators of a "necklace" murder and with Eugene De Kock
… civil and military functions came together "as white settlers formed a citizens anny to enforce their common political, social, and economic interests against indigenous opposition" (Chidester, 1991, p. 92). To strengthen the force of the commandos, coloured commandos were established, which was …
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'There is something about cattle' : towards an economic history of the beef industry in colonial Zimbabwe, with special reference to the role of the State, 1939-1980
… and political well-being of both Africans and white settlers and their relations with the State during what was, arguably the most eventful period in the country's colonial history. The thesis is divided into six chapters, all of which follow the known chronological contours of colonial …
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History of road development, Knox County, Indiana, from 1840 to 1860
… which was one of the first areas inhabited by white settlers. The region around Vincennes was an important trade center and a central meeting place for a variety of Indian Groups with many pathways crossing there.As the population grew in southern Indiana, Knox County which encompassed a very …
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Slavery beyond slavery: the American South, British imperialism, and the circuits of capital, 1833-1873
… United States, landholders turned toward former white slaveholders to manage Chinese laborers brought to the colony in 1865. In response to planter abuse, Chinese laborers abandoned plantations and joined with the Santa Cruz Maya. The Santa Cruz Maya refused to return laborers to British Honduras …
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The White River Indiana Delawares : an ethnohistoric synthesis, 1795-1867
… in 1867 and merged with the Cherokee Nation. The White River band was the core of the Delaware Nation throughout its Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas phases and this study is an ethnohistoric synthesis of the White River Indiana Delawares. The study focuses upon the tribe's continuum of dispersal, …
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A historical survey of the development of political awareness among the Zulus
… King Shaka in his confrontation with White settlers.
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