Browsing by Subject "Native American"
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BUT GENDER IS A WHITE THING: GENDER AND AMERICAN INDIAN SWEAT LODGE CEREMONIES
(2015-08-14)Little exists in the field of psychology regarding American Indian sweat purification ceremonies, and even less exists in psychological literature on the impact of gender on such ceremonies or gender from this cultural ... -
General survey of Native American participation in the Vietnam War
(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 ... -
HOMESCAPES: INDIGENOUS LAND ART AND PUBLIC MEMORY
(2020-05-08)Indigenous North Americans make visual forms that demonstrate and provide for the practice of kinship connections with land. In art history, discourse about “Land Art” has often omitted Indigenous connections with land and ... -
Landscape of Hope and Dispossession: Visions for the Future in the Cookson Hills, 1934–1949
(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 ... -
Native American Hegemonic Struggle and Problematizations: Exploring the Connections between Tribal Socioeconomic Disparities and Differences in Power and Place within Capitalist Society
(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 ... -
Not My Mascot: Prejudice and Native American Mascots on Stereotype Activation and Attitudes Towards Native Americans
(2018)There is an ongoing controversy based on the possible negative outcomes of using Native American mascots as symbols for sport teams. The present research examines the effect of using Native American (NA) sports mascots on ... -
Paradox Regained: The Trickster in Native North American Art and Culture
(2017)Raven, Nanobozho, Wakdjunkaga, Ishtinke, and Coyote were a part of Native North American cultures long before anthropologists began to record their stories in the nineteenth century. Perplexed and captivated by these beings ... -
Pictographic Motifs: Memory and Mobility on the Upper Missouri
(2022-12-16)In “Pictographic Motifs: Memory and Mobility on the Upper Missouri” I investigate a small surviving body of Indigenous painted robes, shirts, and drawings that represent mediated images of intratribal conflict. Indigenous ... -
Representation and Misrepresentation: Depictions of Native Americans in Oklahoma Post Office Murals
(2017-12-15)This dissertation addresses the depictions of Native Americans in public works of art. More specifically, I am concerned with murals that were commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture (the Section); a program ... -
Sounds of Native Oklahoma: The Significance of Fred Cardin, Jack F. Kilpatrick, and Tessie Mobley for the Musical Culture of America
(2021-05-14)By showcasing three biographies of notable twentieth-century Native American musicians, this project provides a cultural context for debating issues of inclusion in the development of American classical music life. The ... -
The Struggle for Schools: Education, Race, and Sovereignty in the Creek Nation, 1820-1907
(2016-05)This dissertation analyzes the relationship between education and nationhood in the nineteenth-century Creek Nation. Over the course of the century, Creeks adapted schools as part of a larger nation-building effort to ... -
Testing an Integrated Social-Cognitive Career Theory Model among STEM Students: Model fit across Gender and Race/Ethnicity
(2021-08)The current study tested the full model of the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994, 2000) using a longitudinal sample of 1,314 Native American, Asian, and White undergraduate students majoring ... -
The Transformation of Biological Research and Science in Native American Communities
(2019-05-10)Native Americans suffer from drastically higher rates of health disparities than other minorities and have been the subjects of research and colonial classifications for decades. Because of a variety of factors have acted ... -
Transformative Autoethnography: An Examination of Cultural Identity and its Implications for Learners
(Adult Learning, 2014-02-01)The cultural experiences of minority learners are often omitted from the formal curriculum leading to exclusion and a sense of cultural loss. In this study, the researcher’s lived experience serves as the basis to develop ... -
WAYS OF KNOWING: JEWELRY OF THE NAVAJO, ZUNI, AND HOPI
(2020-05)This research examines the introduction of Southwestern Native American jewelry as an art form in the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi cultures in conjunction with developing sociographic variables, supporting cultural survivance ... -
“THE WORLD AT OUR DOOR” SCOTTISH AND IRISH SETTLERS AMONG MUSCOGEE (CREEKS) AND OTHER SOUTHEAST TRIBES, 1700 - 1830
(2019-05)By the time of the American Revolution, the colonial shores of the Atlantic had welcomed more than 250,000 Scottish and Irish immigrants to its harbors. With centuries of both war and subjugation in their blood, these ...