Browsing The University of Oklahoma by Author "O'Neill, Sean"
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Language Ideologies and Practices among University Learners of Native American Languages
Wilson, Michael (2016-05-14)This thesis examines language ideologies among university learners of Native American languages. Given that attitudes and beliefs toward these languages can have a direct impact on the learning process, recognizing ideologies ... -
Memory Comes Before Knowledge- North American Indigenous Deaf: Socio-cultural Study of Rock/Picture Writing, Community, Sign Languages, and Kinship.
McKay-Cody, Melanie (2019-05-10)Because of both their deafness and their ethnicity, Indigenous Deaf people area doubly marginalized group, not only in society as a whole, but also within both Indigenous and Deaf communities. This dissertation will present ... -
Perception, visibility, and intervisibility in the late Archaic landscape of the Black Mesa region of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado
Lestarjette, Daniel (2023-05-12)Phenomenology, as an interpretive framework centered on perception and life experience, aids archaeologists in understanding past human relationships with landscapes and their features. In the Black Mesa region of Cimarron ... -
Purism, Prescriptivism, and Privilege: Choctaw Language Ideologies and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning
Kickham, Elizabeth A (2015-12)Oklahoma Choctaw, a Muskogean language originally spoken in the American southeast, is currently the focus of language revitalization efforts by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The School of Choctaw Language, which has ... -
Pursuing an understanding of relationship making within language revitalization: conversations with Indigenous language activists
Young Wolf (Freeman), Royce K. (2022-05-13)We are born into a universe of pre-existing relationships (kinship, ancestral lineage, social and interpersonal, environmental, economic, political, etc.), in addition to the many relationships made intentionally or ... -
Red Dirt Resilience: Enduring Narratives of Oklahoma Environmental Activism
Stephenson, Moriah (2016-05-13)This thesis explores the relationship between dominant narratives of Oklahoma identity and counter-narratives of Oklahoma identity. I consider how the dominant narrative of Oklahoma identity is constructed in relationship ... -
Remembrance and Perseverance in History of the Native American Church in Oklahoma
Chudak, Aleksandr (2019-05-10)In this thesis, I examine the concepts of Native sovereignty, authenticity, (invented) tradition, indigeneity, and cultural heritage as these are applied to the context of the Native American Church (NAC, Peyotism, or the ... -
SHAPING THE FUTURE: THE EVOLVING ROLE OF NARRATIVES IN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL INNOVATION.
Wilson, Karis K. (2024-05-10)This dissertation study examines and produces empirical evidence on how organizational members, who are food pantry employees, share stories and narratives created by the organizational group. This exploration provides ... -
Singing Redface: The Misappropriation of American Indian Culture in Popular Music
Giacona, Christina (2016-12)This project examines the role of cultural appropriation in the creation of Native American stereotypes that are present in Western popular music in post-colonial America through the completion of an in-progress book. ... -
Sojourners’ Identity Transformation As A Function Of Cross-Cultural Adaptation: A Communication Model Of Multicultural Identity Development
Biwa, Valerie (2022-08-04)This dissertation explored the multicultural identity(ies) development of sojourners as a function of their cross-cultural adaptation (CCA). Several theories of CCA, identity, and identity development are discussed and ... -
The St. Johns River: An archival project investigating interior occupation of the St. Johns River Region by Native Americans during the Colonial Period
Sutton, James (2021-05-14)Abstract My project focuses on studying burial mounds along the St. Johns middle valley during the Colonial Period, ca. 1500-1845CE. Currently, little is actually known regarding the interior of the St. Johns or which ... -
The Talking Stick Way: An Indigenous research methodology for engaging diverse global conversations
Freeman, Renelda (2017)The Talking Stick Way: An Indigenous research methodology for engaging diverse global conversations This study explores persistent gaps in knowledge concerning the relevance, presence and benefit of Indigenous research ... -
Views From the Saddle: Empathy and Romanticization in Oral Narrative and Multispecies Communication
Lee, Madeline (2024-05-10)In the summer of 2023, I traveled to Wyoming to conduct fieldwork while working on a dude ranch as a wrangler. The research I conducted had two particular focuses: the learned narratives that wranglers shared with guests ... -
"The Wish to be a Red Indian:" Indianthusiasm and Racial Ideology in Germany
LaFramboise, Kelly (2017-12)This dissertation analyzes the role of Indianer – Germans (and other Europeans) who wish to be Native American so much that they embody and practice essentialized notions of Native American cultural traditions – in German ...