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Charlatans, sharpers, and climatology :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1975)
The shaping of a Creek (Muscogee) homeland in Indian territory, 1828--1907.
(2000)
Federal authorities removed the Creek (Muscogee) Nation from Alabama and Georgia to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) beginning in 1828. By the time of statehood in 1907, the Creek had shaped a new homeland in a ten-county area ...
A social history of Caddoan peoples: Cultural adaptation and persistence in a Native American community.
(1998)
Cultural information on the historic Caddoans is limited. This scant information has nonetheless been used to extrapolate cultural loss for the contemporary tribe. The Caddo suffered population decline of catastrophic ...
A history of the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma.
(The University of Oklahoma., 1976)
Douglas Henry Johnston and the Chickasaw Nation, 1898--1939.
(1999)
Douglas Henry Johnston served as governor of the Chickasaw Nation for some four decades. Johnston presided from 1898 to 1902, was re-elected in 1904, and served until his death on June 28, 1939. He served longer than any ...
Southern Plains hunter-gatherer adaptations during the Late Archaic: A study in optimal foraging.
(2005)
In this study, optimal foraging theory is used to evaluate hunting and butchering practices as well as the residence patterns of Late Archaic hunter-gatherers from the southern Plains. Their behavior is represented in the ...
Listening to our grandmothers' stories: An historical analysis of the literacy curricula at Bloomfield Academy/Carter Seminary for Chickasaw Females, Indian Territory/Oklahoma, 1852-1949.
(1997)
This project examines the literacy curriculum of the Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, a boarding academy established by the Chickasaw tribe in conjunction with missionaries. The school is unique in that the Chickasaw ...
Henry James, Sr. and the American experience.
(1981)
In this biography, I have endeavored to discuss Henry James, Sr.'s career, his responses to the transformations--both social and personal--which marked his age and touched his life. I have tried to analyze the ideas that ...
Strategic psychological warfare of the Truman Administration :
(1982)
This study is concerned with the origins, objectives, and operations of the Truman Administration's strategic psychological warfare effort.
Of birds, guano, and man: William Vogt's "Road to Survival".
(2005)
William Vogt's best-selling and influential neo-Malthusian text Road to Survival articulated the conservation sensibility of his day and was literally read around the world. Vogt (1902--1968) came to his conclusions about ...