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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 ...
Leadership and Social Dynamics at Brackett (34CK-43): an Archaeological Study of a Mississippi period Mound Site in Eastern Oklahoma.
(2016-08)
During the Mississippi period (A.D. 900-1500), middle-range societies constructed large earthworks throughout the Southeast as a means to construct sacred places on the landscape and reflect the negotiations formed between ...
"I Live in Boley, America:Exploring a Contemporary Identity for African American Boley Residents
(2016-05-13)
Abstract
Boley's history for African Americans are stories filled with triumphs and challenges, specifically autonomy, slavery and Jim Crow. In this paper I address their past and consider a contemporary identity that ...
Repurposing the Comparative Method for Pawnee Language and Dialect Revitalization
(2016-08)
A member of the Caddoan language family, Pawnee is a nearly extinct language with few living fluent speakers. However, there is an active, community-led revitalization movement. Community members involved in revitalization ...
Identifying Geophysical Patterning Along the Landscape of the Silver Glen Springs Archaeological Complex
(2019-05-10)
The Silver Glen Springs Complex (SGSC) is a collection of archaeological sites that has been thus-far defined by the terraforming regime of shell mounding conducted by fisher-gatherer-hunters that created many monumental ...
Language Revitalization Through Pawnee Music
(2016)
Pawnee music has always been a crucial component in the lives of the Pawnee people and have been a source of comfort to those who have needed it. Traditional songs give Pawnee people a sense of identity lacking because of ...
Petrographic Quartzite Source Discrimination in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado: Implications for the Archaeological Study of Prehistoric Hunter-Gathers
(2016-05-14)
Recently (Pitblado et al. 2008, 2013), an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists collaborated to develop a protocol for sourcing quartzite in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado where archaeological assemblages ...
Singing Redface: The Misappropriation of American Indian Culture in Popular Music
(2016-12)
This project examines the role of cultural appropriation in the creation of Native American stereotypes that are present in Western popular music in post-colonial America through the completion of an in-progress book. ...
Remembrance and Perseverance in History of the Native American Church in Oklahoma
(2019-05-10)
In this thesis, I examine the concepts of Native sovereignty, authenticity, (invented) tradition, indigeneity, and cultural heritage as these are applied to the context of the Native American Church (NAC, Peyotism, or the ...