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The Conflicted Mission of the United States Bureau of Biological Survey, 1885-1940: Wildlife, Uncertainty, and Ambivalence
(2012)
The United States Bureau of Biological Survey, initially founded as the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy within the Department of Agriculture in 1885, began with a focus on scientific research. Its principle ...
"People to Our Selves": Chickasaw Diplomacy and Political Development in the Nineteenth Century
(2012)
This project adopts an international relations perspective to examine how the Chickasaws conceptualized their position within the unraveling system of western imperial involvement in North America from the American Revolution ...
Women and the Construction of American Indian Scholarship, 1830-1941
(2012)
Between 1830-1941 a select group of European American women's rights proponents crafted a body of American Indian scholarship through which they were able to exercise an extraordinary degree of social and political influence. ...
"The Sea of trouble we are Swimming in": People of the Dawnland and the Enduring Pursuit of a Native Atlantic World
(2012)
This dissertation explores the active engagement of an American Indian culture with the early modern Atlantic world. It argues that the Wabanaki of the American northeast were a quintessentially maritime-oriented people ...
Business in the Borderlands: Bent, St. Vrain & Co., 1830-1849
(2012)
During the 1830s and 1840s, a unique set of economic, social, political, and environmental factors contributed to the rise and fall of Bent, St. Vrain & Co. as the preeminent American trading firm in the Southwest ...
Oklahoma's Forgotten Drought: Regional and Federal Responses to Climate Crisis in the 1950s
(2012)
Through much of the 1950s, intense drought afflicted the Southern Plains and American South. Dry conditions and dust storms fostered new soil and water conservation strategies, and stronger ties between agricultural ...
Antiquity and Loyalist Counter-Narrative in Revolutionary America, 1765-1776
(2012)
This study explores one aspect of the American founding that scholarship has not yet fully investigated, namely, the ways in which loyalist advocates used the ancient literature of Greece and Rome to make their case against ...
Clyde Warrior's "Red Power": A Fresh Air of New Indian Idealism
(2012)
Clyde Warrior's "Red Power": A Fresh Air of New Indian Idealism is an ethnobiography of one of the most outspoken young activist of the early Red Power movement. Based on primary source research and the oral history of ...