Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Yarbrough, Fay"
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Medicine Worse than the Malady: Indian Health, Colonization, and the Wind River Reservation, 1800-1928
Stidolph Jonsson, Julie (2014-05-09)At the turn of the century Native Americans represented a wide variety of cultures, economic situations, regions, and historical experiences. Yet unusually high rates of tuberculosis, trachoma, and infant mortality were ... -
Robert M. Jones and the Choctaw Nation: Indigenous Nationalism in the American South, 1820-1877
Fortney, Jeff (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 ... -
The Struggle for Schools: Education, Race, and Sovereignty in the Creek Nation, 1820-1907
Steineker, Rowan (2016-05)This dissertation analyzes the relationship between education and nationhood in the nineteenth-century Creek Nation. Over the course of the century, Creeks adapted schools as part of a larger nation-building effort to ...