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Agricultural labor, race, and Indian policy on the Round Valley Reservation, 1850--1941.
(2003)
This dissertation examines the labor history of the Indians living on the Round Valley Reservation, in northern California. From the time of contact in 1854 to the beginning of World War II, Round Valley Indians represented ...
Home only long enough: Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, American science, nationalism, and philanthropy, 1886--1908.
(2003)
American Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary tried for twenty-six years to be the first man to reach the North Pole. The dissertation focuses on Peary's stateside efforts to raise money for his multiple expeditions. During his ...
My father's name was Zahtah: Constructing the life history of Alfred Chalepah, Sr.
(2003)
This work examines the life history project of an elderly Native American man. Narratives were recorded during four years of fieldwork. Analysis examines the ways in which elders construct their own identity and draw past ...
Embodiments of power: Nineteenth-century warrior art among the Cheyennes and Kiowas.
(2003)
Events recorded in ledger book drawings served to indoctrinate boys and youths into a culturally prescribed martial mindset. Scenes centering on warfare, hunting, or courtship expounded a set of social behaviors that were ...
Damming the Bighorn: Indian reserved water rights on the Crow Reservation, 1900--2000.
(2003)
According to one experienced lawyer, the Winters doctrine "hangs by a thread." Quantification of the Indian reserved water right serves the interests of local and state entities; does it also serve the interests of Indians? ...
Community, poverty, power: The politics of tribal self-determination, 1960--1968.
(2003)
"Community, Poverty, Power" underscores the need for scholars to transcend conventional definitions of Indian history, combine micro and macro scales of analysis, and blend social and political perspectives. In addition ...