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Red Dirt Resilience: Enduring Narratives of Oklahoma Environmental Activism
(2016-05-13)
This thesis explores the relationship between dominant narratives of Oklahoma identity and counter-narratives of Oklahoma identity. I consider how the dominant narrative of Oklahoma identity is constructed in relationship ...
Bible Translation and Language Renewal: A Collaborative Approach
(2016-05)
Many indigenous languages face attrition globally as the languages of the West continue to grow in influence. As linguists and indigenous speech communities struggle to organize effective language programs, many languages ...
The Talking Stick Way: An Indigenous research methodology for engaging diverse global conversations
(2017)
The Talking Stick Way: An Indigenous research methodology
for engaging diverse global conversations
This study explores persistent gaps in knowledge concerning the relevance, presence and benefit of Indigenous research ...
Crafting Culture: Tapping into Identity and Place through the Craft Beer Movement in Oklahoma
(2019-05-10)
In this anthropological study, I take an ethnographic approach to analyzing the constructions of identity in Oklahoma through the craft beer movement. I use the concept of a “sense of place,” where I take a look into the ...
Characterizing microbiome changes in the graduate student gut
(2016-08-16)
Dysbiosis of the human microbiome is linked to human health problems, and as such, is a main concern of anthropological microbiome research. Analysis of how microbiomes change over time and under stress may reveal trends ...
Cuyamungue Black-on-tan: Establishing Diversity in Tewa Pueblo Biscuitware to Improve Dating of the Protohistoric Period in Northern New Mexico
(2018-08-02)
Researchers know that during the Late Classic period (A.D. 1500-1598) Tewa Pueblo people living in the Lower Chama watershed started moving southeast towards the Rio Grande, a process that eventually lead to the depopulation ...
IRO TŲWAHI WISAHMA NĄHA: THE SEVENTH GENERATION, UNDERSTANDING JIWERE LANGUAGE STATUS AND RECLAMATION THROUGH COMMUNITY INPUT
(2019-12)
Although several scholars have focused their work on Jiwere (Otoe) and related dialects of Chiwere, no published descriptions have come directly from members of the speech community themselves. This lack of self-determination ...
The Water that Sustains Us: Indigenous Resistances to Defend the Environment in Oklahoma
(2019-05-10)
My research focuses on Indigenous people’s resistance movements to safeguard and sustain their natural environments. I would affirm that Indigenous-led resistance movements and actions to preserve the environment protect ...
Decolonizing the Indigenous Language Classroom: A Heteroglossia of Ideological Shift in Indigenous Language Revitalization
(2017-05)
This thesis examines the language ideologies of three Native American language instructors at the University of Oklahoma, looking specifically at the way these ideologies are seen in their pedagogical methodologies. This ...
The Ravenscroft II Site: A Late Paleo-Indian Bison Kill Event in the Oklahoma Panhandle
(2017-05-12)
The winter kill model combines aspects of optimal foraging theory and animal behavioral ecology to explain large scale bison hunting organization on the North American Great Plains. These same theories are applied to the ...