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Two Towns, Multiple Places: Race and Identity on the Early Republic's Frontier
(2009)
In order for us to understand and reconceptualize race in the early republic, we ought to examine the symbiotic relationship between Prophetstown and Vincennes during the first two decades of the nineteenth century. The ...
Lines on the Land: The San Luis Rey River Reservations and the Origins of the Mission Indian Federation, 1850-1934
(2009)
This dissertation explores the environmental and legal context of political activism among southern California Indians between 1850 and 1934. Specifically, it tracks the rise of the Mission Indian Federation in the early ...
Oklahoma's Newer New Deal: The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936
(2009)
Historians contend that the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), enacted in 1934 forever changed the direction of federal Indian policy. The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA) passed two years later in 1936 helped transform ...
Science in the American Style, 1700 - 1800
(2009)
Science formed an important element of Anglo-American life throughout the eighteenth century, and not only for the colonial elite. In both private and public realms, in commercial as well as social settings, eighteenth-century ...
Science in the American Style, 1700 - 1800
(2009)
Science formed an important element of Anglo-American life throughout the eighteenth century, and not only for the colonial elite. In both private and public realms, in commercial as well as social settings, eighteenth-century ...
"Under the Same Glorious Flag": Land, Race, and Legitimacy in Territorial New Mexico
(2009)
Using San Miguel County in northern New Mexico as a case study, this dissertation explores the ways in which nuevomexicanos sought some measure of control over the terms of their incorporation into the United States after ...