Browsing by Author "Metcalf, Warren"
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"CAPTURE THESE INDIANS FOR THE LORD": INDIAN CHURCHES AND THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH IN OKLAHOMA, 1865-1939
Smith, Tash B. (2010)"Capture These Indians for the Lord" examines the ways that Christian Indians developed within a white-dominated church society, both from their own actions as well as from the growing indifference of white officials. ... -
Days of Darkness: The Wichitas in Indian Territory and Kansas, 1859-1867
Brumbelow, Ryan (2019-12-13)Most of what is known about the history of the Wichita peoples is scattered throughout the works of historians Earl H. Elam and F. Todd Smith, as well as anthropologist W. W. Newcomb, Jr., leaving this historiography of ... -
Deconstructing the "Apache" Identity: A History of the San Carlos Apachean Peoples
Macktima, Marcus (2023-05-12)Historians of “Apache” history have continuously told the stories of the Chiricahua Apachean peoples and Goyathlay’s (Geronimo) resistance to the incursion of the U.S. Army. However, the attention afforded to these peoples ... -
Defining America at the Border: The Line Riders of the Mexican Border District, 1892-1924
Dupree, James Jr. (2019-05-10)Defining America at the Border: The Line Riders of the Mexican Border District, 1892-1924 is the story of the line riders. Also known as Immigrant Inspectors, the Mounted Guard (both with the Bureau of Immigration), and ... -
A Different Shade of Green: Efraím Hernández, Chapingo, and Mexico's Green Revolution, 1950-1967
Caire-Pérez, Matthew (2016-05-13)This dissertation deals with certain undiscussed episodes in modern Mexican agricultural history. -
Discontent on the Range: Uncovering the Origins of Public Grazing Lands Politics
Pearce, Matthew (2014-05)Recent conflicts between ranchers, environmentalists, and federal range management experts on western public lands are a product of different perceptions of the landscape that crystallized by the middle of the twentieth ... -
Examining Historical Issues Pertaining to San Carlos Apache Tribal Identities Through Peoplehood
Macktima, Marcus (2017-05-12)Over the course of record regarding Apache history in the United States, there has been little attempt to specify the groups of Apache peoples within the traditional homelands of the Apache residing in the Southwestern ... -
Family Structure, Parenting Practices, and Self-Control
Mouser, James (2016-08)Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime posits that low self-control is the primary cause of crime and other negative outcomes, including relationship and employment instability, inability to meet financial ... -
Fighting “Firewater:” Native American Temperance Reform and Federal Indian Policy in the Nineteenth Century
Frazier, Chelsea (2023-12-15)In 1802, Little Turtle, Chief of the Miami, wrote to President Thomas Jefferson explaining the increased presence of alcohol in Indian Country. This sparked a century of Indigenous peoples fighting to control alcohol and ... -
FREEDOM IS MY BUSINESS: CARL MCINTIRE, CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM
Griffith, Bobby Jr. (2019)Carl McIntire (1906-2002), the fiery Fundamentalist minister played a key role in the rise of the modern Conservative movement that emerged following the Second World War. From his home base in the Philadelphia suburb of ... -
General survey of Native American participation in the Vietnam War
Tucker, Rachel (2023-12-15)Native American participation during the Vietnam War is a subject woefully understudied, as whole, with a majority of the historiography consisting of one man’s work. This general survey of Native American/Indian/Indigenous ... -
Indigenous Nationalism on the Wind River Indian Reservation, 1851-1938
Hilton-Hagemann, Brandi Lynn (2013)This dissertation seeks to alter the ways in which scholars address indigenous group formation. Instead of adhering to the rather pervasive, and anthropologically based, band/tribe/nation approach, this work argues that ... -
Indigenous Nationalism on the Wind River Indian Reservation, 1851-1938
Hilton-Hagemann, Brandi Lynn (2013)This dissertation seeks to alter the ways in which scholars address indigenous group formation. Instead of adhering to the rather pervasive, and anthropologically based, band/tribe/nation approach, this work argues that ... -
Intra-Colonial Spaces: Desire and Displacement in Images of Indian Territory, the Hawai’ian Islands, and New Mexico Territory, 1885-1920
Peck, James (2016)Depending primarily on image analysis, this dissertation considers a heretofore understudied artistic construct, the American intra-colonial aesthetic. Produced as a byproduct of displaced American colonialist desires near ... -
"It's Not A Treaty, It's A Legal Binding Agreement": Fort Lawton, Red Power, and the Struggle for Indigenous Land Reclamation
Kahle, Thomas (2023-05-12)In 1970, over one hundred Native American activists occupied the Fort Lawton military base in Seattle, Washington. The protestors, disgruntled over the federal government’s termination of tribal lands and lack of support ... -
Landscape of Hope and Dispossession: Visions for the Future in the Cookson Hills, 1934–1949
Thomas, Brendan (2021-05-14)This thesis examines a little-studied moment in Oklahoma’s environmental and Indigenous history: the era of the New Deal, Second World War, and early days of the Cold War. From the 1930s to the late 1940s, as Oklahoma ... -
Medicine Worse than the Malady: Indian Health, Colonization, and the Wind River Reservation, 1800-1928
Stidolph Jonsson, Julie (2014-05-09)At the turn of the century Native Americans represented a wide variety of cultures, economic situations, regions, and historical experiences. Yet unusually high rates of tuberculosis, trachoma, and infant mortality were ... -
Native American Hegemonic Struggle and Problematizations: Exploring the Connections between Tribal Socioeconomic Disparities and Differences in Power and Place within Capitalist Society
Callen, Kyle (2020-05-08)While Native Americans collectively fall among the most socioeconomically marginalized groups in American society, disparities in resources and wealth among different tribes are more substantial than often assumed, and a ... -
Oklahoma's Newer New Deal: The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936
Blackman, Jon S. (2009)Historians contend that the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), enacted in 1934 forever changed the direction of federal Indian policy. The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA) passed two years later in 1936 helped transform ... -
Other Indians and Freedmen: The Legacy of Black Migration in Oklahoma, 1840-1910
Myers, Leroy Jr (2021)“Other Indians and Freedmen: The Legacy of Black Migration in Oklahoma, 1840-1910” analyzes African Americans’ westward migration from the Deep South and the development of predominately black towns throughout Indian ...