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#KeepOurLanguagesStrong: Indigenous language revitalization on social media during the early COVID-19 pandemic
(2021)
Indigenous communities, organizations, and individuals work tirelessly to #KeepOurLanguagesStrong. The COVID-19 pandemic was potentially detrimental to Indigenous language revitalization (ILR) as this mostly in-person work ...
Intertribal Interactions, Relationality, and Community Resilience in The Northeastern Oklahoma Indian Nations, 1800-1930
(2018-05-11)
My research explores nation building among the nine small American Indian nations located in northeastern Oklahoma after forced removal. The distinct sovereign small Native nations who relocated to the corner of the state ...
Hear Our Languages, Hear Our Voices: Storywork as Theory and Praxis in Indigenous-Language Reclamation
(2018)
Storywork provides an epistemic, pedagogical, and methodological lens through which to examine Indigenous language reclamation in practice. We theorize the meaning of language reclamation in diverse Indigenous communities ...
“You’re in apple land but you are a lemon:” Connection, Collaboration, and Division in Early ‘70s Indian Country
(2020-07-01)
In the first years of the 1970s, Indian Country became paradoxically more interwoven and yet also more divided. Three case studies from Oklahoma’s Indigenous communities illustrate this transformation. Beginning in the ...
Purism, Prescriptivism, and Privilege: Choctaw Language Ideologies and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning
(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 ...
A genre of survivance: narrative criticism of boarding school stories
(2020-05-08)
Using narrative rhetorical analysis, this thesis examines two popular American Indian autobiographies to analyze the rhetorical impact. By applying Frye's genre theory, I argue that American Indians surpass genre conventions ...
Gumbo Banaha Stories: Louisiana Indigeneities and the Transnational South
(2014-05-09)
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Post devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana has again become a popular exoticized presence in the American entertainment machine. As a result, scholarly studies have renewed interest in the historic ...
Decolonizing personality assessment: An examination of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2.
(2005)
This research builds on a previous investigation which found that the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2 (MMPI-2), the most widely used personality assessment instrument in the world, exhibits significant ...
Yíà [i.e. Yíaù
(2007)
Abstract not available.
Comanche Food Attitudes
(2019-05-10)
Food has always been important to societies and cultures from everyday life and over generations. Yet, very few societies still eat the same way that they did 500 years ago. Today, indigenous people are challenged by settler ...