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"Make It An Indian Massacre:" The Scapegoating of the Southern Paiutes
(2016-05-13)
Overall, this project attempts to move dialogue beyond the cause of the Mountain Meadows Massacre to examine how and why Mormon perpetrators manipulated and covered their tracks in order to frame the Southern Paiutes. This ...
Additions From an Apostate: Petrus Alfonsi and a Shift in Anti-Jewish Polemic
(2018-05-12)
In the Twelfth Century, Petrus Alfonsi converted from Judaism to Christianity and wrote his Dialogi contra Iudaeos. In this polemical text, Alfonsi utilized Islamic science and reason to attack Judaism and the Talmud as ...
Outlawing and becoming native in the colonization of Yosemite National Park: a cultural-ecological perspective
(2022)
Since the 1980s, Environmental historians have produced research disproving the myth of pristine wilderness. Yet, few environmental historians have focused their research efforts on considering how such a myth may have ...
Destroying each other: race and the clash of cultures in the Indian Territory Civil War
(2020-05-08)
Most historians of the Civil War have neglected Indian Territory. Those historians who write on the Indian Territory Civil War, like Annie Abel and Mary Jane Warde, focus on tribal political intrigue or the effect of the ...
The Weapon of Dress: Identity and Innovation in Cherokee Clothing, 1794-1838
(2017-05-12)
In the decades leading up to Removal, Cherokees underwent a variety of sartorial changes. This thesis examines these changes, the resulting tensions, and the use of clothing as a weapon of resistance against Removal. ...
The girl with the agate eyes: the life and times of Mattie Howard
(2022)
This thesis studies the life of Martha Alice “Mattie” Howard, a forgotten figure in both the early 20th-century criminal underworld and the evangelical circuit of 1930s and 1940s America. Straddling the line between social ...
Republic on the Red River: Documenting Choctaw Political Transformation from Removal to Reconstruction
(2022-04-27)
The Trail of Tears left a stain upon American history, as a betrayal of the republic’s founding principles: but out of the removal, a political transformation was underway in the Choctaw Nation. Under the leadership of men ...
History of Garvin County
(1932)
General survey of Native American participation in the Vietnam War
(2023-12-15)
Native American participation during the Vietnam War is a subject woefully understudied, as whole, with a majority of the historiography consisting of one man’s work. This general survey of Native American/Indian/Indigenous ...