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A Tale of Two Sites: a Lithic Analysis Examining Possible Nūche Emergence on the Uncompahgre Plateau, Colorado
(2017)
To explain the historic distribution of Numic (Uto-Aztecan) speakers across the American West, researchers hypothesized a largescale movement of people occurring between A.D. 900 and 1300. This migration, otherwise known ...
FROM PHENOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE TO A THEORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRAXIS: PERCEPTION, IDEOLOGY, AND MEANING IN MULTIMODAL LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE
(2016-05)
Linguistics has prioritized the auditory mode of transmission in language at the expense of written forms and their relevance to the social construction of meaning and identity. Due to the privilege of spoken language as ...
Language Ideologies and Practices among University Learners of Native American Languages
(2016-05-14)
This thesis examines language ideologies among university learners of Native American languages. Given that attitudes and beliefs toward these languages can have a direct impact on the learning process, recognizing ideologies ...
The plundering of Paquimé: the history of looting in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico
(2012)
The destruction of archaeological sites is a complex issue that affects sites around the world. Although site destruction could be the result of various factors, it is usually attributed to looting of artifacts for a local ...
Biomolecular Preservation in Dental Calculus from the Teotihuacan Ritual Landscape
(2019-05-10)
The advent of high-throughput sequencing techniques has yielded a wealth of genomic information about the human oral microbiome. This research has expanded with the direct sequencing of DNA from dental calculus (calcified ...
The Transformation of Biological Research and Science in Native American Communities
(2019-05-10)
Native Americans suffer from drastically higher rates of health disparities than other minorities and have been the subjects of research and colonial classifications for decades. Because of a variety of factors have acted ...
Community-Based Archives, Museums and Language Revitalization: A Case Study From The Wichita And Affiliated Tribes In Anadarko, Oklahoma
(2018)
The last fluent speaker of the Wichita language passed away in 2016. According to many common language vitality scales in linguistics, the Wichita language would be considered extinct. However, the discourse about this has ...
Visual Sovereignty and Indigenous Film Festivals: A Case Study on The Native Crossroads Film Festival
(2019-05-10)
This thesis is an ethnographic documentation of the Native Crossroads Film Festival, an annual multi-day cultural event in Norman, Oklahoma that features a selection of indigenous films. I argue throughout this thesis that ...
Choice and Patterns in Midwife Use in the United States
(2019-05-10)
This study explores the factors that influence women’s decisions about their pregnancy and birth, what kinds of value and beliefs tend to suggest a preference towards midwives, and, demographically, which women are mostly ...