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Other names I have been called: Political resurgence among Virginia Indians in the twentieth century.
(1998)
Historically, Virginia's indigenous Indian tribes have been subsumed under non-Indian racial categories. Typically, Virginia Indians were classified as "free persons of color, " somewhat in midpoint on the bi-racial ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rural Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
(2001)
This dissertation analyzes rural Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole communities in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. It examines the impact of Indian New Deal policies in the areas of economic, education, ...
Streams: Small Jewish communities on the banks of the Ohio.
(2002)
In most small towns, the dominant Jewish institution was the synagogue, whose activities included mutual aid, philanthropy, and Jewish education. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Ohio Valley was the center of a movement ...
"Aboriginally yours": The Society of American Indians and United States citizenship, 1890--1924.
(2005)
His public life had been dedicated to improving the condition of Native people. Eastman worked with progressive reformers who, like himself, believed in the power of Christian civilization and democracy to improve the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...