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"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. ...
Sherman's Lieutenants: The Army Officer Corps, Federal Indian Policy, and Native Sovereignty, 1862-1878
(2010)
This dissertation focuses on army officers' efforts to both conquer American Indians and answer to competing visions of political authorities and citizens who were divided over the "Indian question." Although army officers ...
"CAPTURE THESE INDIANS FOR THE LORD": INDIAN CHURCHES AND THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH IN OKLAHOMA, 1865-1939
(2010)
"Capture These Indians for the Lord" examines the ways that Christian Indians developed within a white-dominated church society, both from their own actions as well as from the growing indifference of white officials. ...