Search
Now showing items 1-8 of 8
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 ...
Yíà [i.e. Yíaù
(2007)
Abstract not available.
The destruction of the Trinity River, California (1848--1964).
(2007)
Abstract not available.
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 ...
Rising suns, fallen forts, and impudent immigrants: Race, power, and war in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
(2006)
Their assumption became untenable when hundreds of Europeans and their African slaves moved into Natchez country. The resultant web of Indian, French, and African communities created a unique matrix for the production of ...
Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies
(2016-05-13)
Scientific knowledge is a global pursuit, one that takes on many different guises across cultures. This thesis argues that indigenous peoples have and had their own, independently developed forms of scientific knowledge, ...
Reservation Limits: American Indian Urbanization and Uplift in the Twentieth Century
(2014-04-30)
This dissertation takes a macro view of American Indian urbanization and off-reservation employment across the twentieth century, and does so through a wide-angle lens that is not tribe or destination specific. While the ...
From buffalo to beeves: Cattle and the political economy of the Oglala Lakota, 1750--1920.
(2007)
Obstacles such as an unyielding demand by the federal government to implement a farming economy, extensive competition from white ranchers, limited access to regional or local markets, excessive institutional control by ...