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Yuchi social history since World War II: Political symbolism in ethnic identity.
(1998)
From allotment to the current day, most scholars assume the various towns that originally formed the Creek polity have become assimilated into a single homogenous Creek culture. The Yuchi community has maintained a separate ...
Stronger than custom: West Point and the admission of women, 1972-1980.
(1998)
When the first women cadets entered the United States Military Academy in 1976, they were harbingers of massive changes at West Point and within the American Army. They arrived on the heels of the anti-militarism of the ...
Fort Gibson :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1976)
Revealing accounts: General stores on the south central plains, 1870--1890.
(2005)
This study also places Texas and Indian Territory into the larger context of late nineteenth-century America, arguing the prevailing value systems and cultural dispositions of the late nineteenth century transcended regional ...
From creekology to geology: Finding and conserving oil on the Southern Plains, 1859--1930.
(2004)
This dissertation tells the story of the oil industry's westward migration from Pennsylvania to the Southern Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and how different environments in these regions influenced prospectors' ...
Land of the Fair God: The Development of Black Towns in Oklahoma, 1870-1910
(2016)
Oklahoma’s All Black Town Movement is important to contextualize larger black migration patterns during the nineteenth century. Oklahoma was at the center of black migration from surrounding states. In addition, it played ...
Robert M. Jones and the Choctaw Nation: Indigenous Nationalism in the American South, 1820-1877
(2014-05)
This project examines the social, political, and economic transformations that shaped Choctaw nationhood following Indian Removal in the 1830s. Specifically, I argue that, unlike the other Five Tribes, the Choctaw Nation ...
Passionate rebel :
(1983)
The first woman to lecture to women on physiology and anatomy, Mary Gove Nichols told women in 1838 to take control over their own health and advocated the Graham System which emphasized proper diet, exercise, and preventive ...
Perspectives on the racial threat hypothesis: Testing a theory of southern politics.
(1999)
By studying the phenomenon of racial threat voting in the South, we make discoveries that allow us to understand better the complexities of it. By viewing racial threat on different planes, we gain a better understanding ...
American Indian religion under assault :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)
From the Spanish Edict of 1620 prohibiting the usage of peyote to current state narcotics laws classifying peyote as a narcotic American Indians have withstood harassment, confiscations, imprisonment, and defamations of ...